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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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So I came across this in substack yesterday from this
guy named Timothy Lee, who I do not know. But
his article was he writes about AI for a living,
and his headline was AI skeptics and AI boosters are
both wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And I gave that a look.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Everybody's guessing to a certain extent here, but I just
thought this was an interesting tank, a take I hadn't
heard before. Earlier this month, he writes, I attended an
AI conference called the Curve in Berkeley, California, just a
few miles from where we are. A lot of people
there were agi pilled he calls it. For example, I
participated in a role playing exercise organized by this dude
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who argues that AI systems will soon achieve human level intelligence.
Then they will rapidly improve themselves, leading to superhuman AI
capabilities and an extreme acceleration of scientific discovery and economic growth.
Then he went across the hall to another conference where
a different AGI pilled writer. That's someone who believes so
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much of this, who believes the super intelligent AI will
kill everyone on the planet.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He said, to go back to the first one, he.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Said, at the opposite end of the spectrum, or skeptics
who believe AI is not just overhyped but practically useless.
This perspective wasn't well represented at the conference, but it
came up a lot. We mentioned this a couple of
weeks ago. There was a piece in The New York
Times quoting this study one of your big godfathers of AI.
You know, there's a handful of people that are really
well respected whenever they talk about AI. One of those
(02:24):
people wrote a column in The New York Times citing
this MIT study, which we have talked about before. A
recent study run by MIT's program that looks into this
sort of stuff found that ninety five percent of companies
that did AI pilot studies found little or no return
on their investment and financial analysis projects an estimated shortfall
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of eight hundred billion dollars in revenue for AI companies
by the end of twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That it's not going to pan out near the way
they thought.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So that article got a lot of attention at the
time and apparently came up a lot in this conference.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Can contradict that right now, but go ahead to that later. No,
go ahead, Oh, just I happened to yesterday afternoon have
a conversation with a good friend who is an attorney
of great experience and success and worked for a fairly
important law firm. And he's actually my friend who I've
mentioned to his license to practice both in the US
(03:21):
and Britain.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He is no dummy.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He and his company are working with a certain university
on AI programs for law, and he was describing to
me how they were designing AI personas I think was
the term he used that would approach a problem as
he would not just as a generic attorney or as
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a computer, but as he has and would throughout his career.
And that's based on extensive interviews and study of how
he doesn't, and he said the results were scary good.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, I don't buy the it's not going to be
profitable or be a thinging. I lean more toward ruining
the world than toward making it better personally, even though
I think it will make it better and it'll be
able to cure diseases and help you figure out medication
and all kinds of different things. But it at the
same time is going to ruin the world. And you know,
if it ruins the world, what good does it do?
(04:19):
If I mean, if nobody has jobs and nobody gets
together in relationships anymore, who cares if it's curing these obscure.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Answers right in the few remaining human beings, right produced Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
But anyway, I wanted to get to this part and
then I will shut up about it because I won't
worry out. But I thought it was this interesting, this
guy writes. My view is between these two extremes. I
think that AI has genuinely impressive capabilities that are likely
to improve further in the coming months and years. I
think the AI industry is likely to be profitable in
the wrong run, and that open AI's basic business model
is perfectly reasonable, but I don't think we're very close
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to human level intelligence at all. I don't think AI
is about to drive the kind of massive social and
economic changes that Agi Pilled folk expect. Then it gets
into some of his reasoning after that that gets complicated
and uses phrases in terms that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You have to look up.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But there is a crowd out there that believes, well,
kind of what I just kind of what I just said,
but not completely. He believes, Yeah, it's a thing, and
it's gonna come along and it's going to be impactful,
but it's not going to upend society and our economic models.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
In ways that we need to be worried about. And
I hope the more right. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't
think he is.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think there is a wide swath of so called
white collar jobs that will vanish.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm completely convinced to that there's that.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And then I think a lot of these people, because
they're computer geeks, which in most cases by definition means
you're kind of like not a normal person in society,
I think they vastly underestimate what it's going to do
to relationships and society and coupling and all that sort
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of stuff, because there's such outliers as human beings to
start with, and I'm not sure that a lot of
these people even can conceive of thinking about that issue
because they just don't live in that world of like going.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Out on dating and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, and a lot of opinion leaders are also self
motivated go getters, and so they can't conceive of because
you no longer have to work to take care of yourself,
you become a blob of dinner on week because they
would find something right. But a hell of a lot
of human beings aren't made like that. Most, Yeah, the
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vast majority. And I feel like we've already seen enough of.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
The people having relationships with chatbots when it's at its
current level of engagement, that it's inevitable.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That it becomes a huge problem.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I can't I can't imagine the argument that says, no,
it's not it's not going to be a big deal.
You aren't going to have millions of inceell dudes who
are so obsessed with their AI chat bot and porn
that they never get with a real woman.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That won't happen. I don't understand that argument at all.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Right, Oh my gosh, I've got a great think piece
around here somewhere about the rise of that very sort
of young man and how they quickly become embittered and
hateful and for instance, kill Charlie Kirk or try to
put a bullet in Donald J.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Trump's head for the very scenario you were describing.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
And then then for women, because women tend to be
more about the emotions than most dudes in general. Man,
the getting some sort of comfort from a chat dude
that talks to you about your problems and agrees that
you've been wronged by your mom and your sister.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I just think that's going to be a huge thing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Right, just as an aside as you were a speaking
Jack quickly did a search on how old is the
saying idle hands are the devil's playthings? Or are similar
phrasings of the same thought, And it definitely goes back
to the Old Testament. Sure it's in proverbs idle hands
are the dull It depends which just translation you have.
(08:20):
It endured throughout the early days of Christianity. Here are
a bunch of citations from the medieval period. Here are
early English usages in the fifteen hundreds through the seventeen hundreds.
The wording probably solidified in the eighteenth or nineteenth century,
but the idea itself is at least fourteen hundred years old,
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with deep roots in early Christian moral teaching. It is
an idea that has never receded from human consciousness, that
idle hands are the devil's playthings. And yet we are
moving as quickly as possible toward a mechanism to idle
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as many hands as possible.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That's only works, that's true, But it only works because
you believe that a lot of people are not self
motivated to do something. The remember Nancy Pelosi famously saying,
this will be a chance everybody can be an artist
or a poet or whatever. Yeah, a lot of people
are going to kind of talk about that, but they
aren't going to like engage in eight hours of effort
(09:23):
every single day to be whatever they're going to be
and be occupied. No, they're going to sit around and
get you know, naval gazingly selfish and insular in their lives,
and it's going to go off the.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Rails and high and I all right, here's a little
poetry for you. Nancy Roses are red, violets are blue.
AGI is here, Humanity's through there you go, there's a
little uh artificial generalized intelligence.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's the AGI. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, Yeah, it's not a good poem, but you know,
I'm a beginner.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
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Speaker 1 (10:02):
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Speaker 2 (10:12):
So there are a couple of topics.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Climate cultism is one and gender cultism is another, where
the tide is finally starting to turn, although I would
argue you've got a hell of a long road to
go before sanity's really install restored. And we've got a
gender bending madness update coming up next hour. But on
the climate thing, Bill Gates made a lot of headlines
this week when he said, essentially, yeah, maybe like doing
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everything we can possibly do to reduce emissions at the
cost of our economies and standards of living, et cetera,
as maybe not the right strategy. Why don't we just
deal with maybe some of that's come for slight climate
changes might cause and look after people being able to
feed themselves and not die of diseases and stuff like that,
(10:58):
instead of putting all of ours in the climate basket.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Why he made that change.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Maybe he just woke up to reality in my opinion,
or whether he's motivated by AI's voracious need for electricity,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, just his.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Flat statement of mankind is not going to come to
its end because of climate change. What's the flat out
opposite of what he've been saying for twenty years right? Well,
and also the idea that we, in particular the Western world,
because the other parts of the world don't give a crap,
that we can make these enormous sacrifices and it will
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turn the tide has never been true. It was demonstrably
false for years, and he's finally woken up to it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Anyway, I thought this was interesting headline, The World turns
to Energy Pragmatism, happens to be in the Dispatch Energy
section sponsored by the Pacific Legal Foundation, good friends of
the Armstrong and Getty Show, and let's see Roger Pilke
is writing about the fact that you've got leaders all
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around the world saying similar things, like Canadian Prime Minister
Mark Karney. A decade ago, he warned that remaining fossil
fuel reserves may become unburnable if the world wants to
avoid a climate catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
In recent months, he's.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Fast tracked approval of new liquefied natural gas export terminals
in British Columbia, promising quote, to transform our country.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Into an energy superpower. Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
In the UK, Prime Minister kir Starmer, who needs to
get out of office as soon as possible, must soon
decide whether to relax aggressive climate targets that have crippled
Britain's economy. A government insider recently told The Guardian, quote,
if it comes to a choice between hitting the climate
target and overpaying, or missing it and keeping costs down,
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we're going to miss it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Britain went net zero and just destroyed their economy. As
listened to a podcast about that a couple of weeks ago,
and it was shocking that I wasn't more aware of this,
the damage they did to their own economy over this.
Thank god we didn't. Oh yeah, yeah, you got your.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
German Chancellor Freddie Mertz recently acknowledged the competing economic objectives
that a company an ambitious climate agenda.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
None of us are questioning the goal of climate protection.
All of us are of the opinion we must combine
this with the competitiveness of European industry. All the people
who have had their economic prospects crushed over the last
fifteen years are probably saying, oh, great, way to wake
up now, Fred.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But it's actually more than that.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Like your Greek Prime minister, Unpronounceable, writing for The Financial Times,
argued in favor of a more pragmatic energy transmission transition. Quote,
if we must accept some emissions for a bit longer
to save our industries or to maintain social cohesion, so
be it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We have to have these debates. Honestly.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
We cannot begin with climate neutrality and hope everything else
falls into place.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, a lot of us have been saying that for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, practically word for word, one or two more and
then more. On that theme, Chris Coons of Delaware, a
highly partisan Democrat, recently told Politico that climate is not
a top three issue right now.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Senator Brian Shatz of Hawaii, it's pretty name when even
further or arguing at an unfortunate event, Yes, at a
New York Times event last month, that costs need to
be front and center when talking about energy. Quote, you
could talk about the planetary emergency and mitigation and adaptation.
You could throw in some environmental justice rhetoric, but by
(14:33):
the time you're done talking, people don't think you care
about them. The way to victory is to talk about price. Okay, welcome,
glad to have you at the party.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Sure, we're just cleaning up and washing the dishes. You
know what, Yes, you've You've been having a shats on
the American people for too long with your climate cultism.
My god, so the one bitter note about people finally
coming correct.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Careers were crushed, People run.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Out of science and academia for saying these very things.
People were like canceled on Twitter and Facebook for saying
the very things the left is now saying.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Have we learned something from COVID or climate and the
trans craziness that you got to let people have their
opinions out there?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Probably for a while we have, and then those lessons
get fuzzier over time and you repeat them. History doesn't
repeat itself, but it rhymes. As they say, still laughing
over your joke? How I agree, shut up? It's time
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You She's a poor autistic kid who got exploited by
adults who made millions of dollars off the climate scam.
I shouldn't be mean to her. I mean she's an
adult now.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
But please, well then I should be back in school.
You know, you're right. They ran into the problem.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The climate change activists of like a lot of doomsday cults,
like you know, the world is going to end on
twenty nineteen, and then twenty nineteen comes in the world
doesn't and you kind of and ruins your credibility. And
that's what happened with a lot of your climate change stuff.
I mean, you go back and look at some of
the things Al Gore claim was going to happen by
twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, yeah, Well, and then the claims of the effect
that their policies would have.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Are completely fanciful.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You haven't changed the output of you know, crap globally speaking,
nearly enough to crap. That's a nice technical term, you know,
the fossil fuels and carbon and the rest of it.
You haven't changed it nearly enough to matter. So quit
wasting our time in economies on your cult. And again,
how often do you see this pattern? There are people
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making billions and billions of dollars off of selling climate fear,
and then you've got the good hearted, soft headed gretitunbergs
the world and the college kids on the campuses who
believe it with one sincerity, and they're the army that
marches for the activists.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I think in honor of Dick Cheney's passing, we should
waterboard Bill Gates to find out what made him change
his mind.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I love that idea.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
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Speaker 4 (17:44):
If you're I'm guessing most of you don't pay any
attention to think tanks at all, but if you, if
you're lean conservative and you do know anything about him.
Heritage Foundation was huge and big, and we talked a
lot last week about how disappointing it was that they
became so concerned not angering Tucker Carlson apparently and attacked
anybody who criticized him.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Platforming Nazis story out to kissing Vladimir Putin's ass too.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
By the way, story out today. This is in the
Wall Street Journal. The crack up at the Heritage Foundation
is a warning sign for MAGA. Employees at the Heritage
Foundation who had been working on Ukraine policy were asked
to watch Tucker Carlson's monologues, which were full of conspiracy
theories about the war and just flat out lies, to
(18:32):
delete past tweets in support of Ukraine aid I guess
in case Tucker saw them, and to write papers reflecting
the new more isolationist policy at Heritage. This was to
the employees working on Ukraine policy, you need to watch
more of the Tucker Carlson monologues at Heritage.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Isn't that something?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, to which David French, who I don't always agree
with but writes for The New York Times, the rot
is so incredibly deep. It's astonishing to me that the
Heritage Foundation, of all institutions, would become an instrument of
Russian propaganda. That's what Tucker Carlson's monologues were, pure propaganda.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So all right, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Like he's ooing an eyeing over the grocery store and
in Yeah, that was just shameless.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, And how you know, Putin's standing up for Christianity
and traditional values and stuff like that, and uh, you know,
like I said earlier, I don't quite understand how powerful
Tucker is or Candice owns or Nick Fwente's versus other things,
but Heritage apparently was scared of them. This is Joe's
(19:41):
been talking about this more than me. But this will
continue to have other shoes dropping. The immigration problem they
got in Europe, particularly in this case Great Britain. Looking
at this picture of a boat from today, fifteen hundred
Channel migrants. That's what they call people that who enter
Great Britain from France and just come across whatever it is,
sixty miles the channel.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
They were living in the English Channel and now they're
living here.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Fifteen hundred Channel migrants have crossed illegally from France since Thursday,
for the third straight day. Hundreds more are crossing into
UK waters. Total this year now is over thirty eight
thousan five hundred, which is a tiny number by US
Joe Biden era standards, but a lot from there, well
ahead of the thirty six thousand who arrived during the
whole of twenty twenty four. So I got people showing
(20:26):
up in boat loads illegals from all around, mostly from
Middle East Africa, get into France. Once they get into Europe,
and then crossing the channel in these boats and for
whatever reason the rules in Great Britain they don't have
a way to stop the vessels and turn them around
or keep them from coming on shore.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, part of that's EU and part of its although
they did the breaks of part of it's that they've
got progressives in charge.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Worth mentioning because I just happened to check this.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The UK as a whole has about a fifth of
our population, so if you want to talk about disruptive
inflo luence of immigrants from other cultures, you know that's
pretty big number that they were talking about, dwarfed by
the Biden era quite so. Oh, speaking of the immigration problem,
you mind if I squeezes in real quick. I mentioned
(21:14):
earlier the shameless Metrocropolitan Police trying to downplay an ugly,
ugly murder by an Afghan immigrant on an old man,
and how they just in Orwellian fashion, turned it into
an incident in which a man sadly died like you know,
he'd had a heart attack and died alone watching the TV.
(21:35):
But then you've got this story out of it's reloading,
thank you very much. Swedish court ruled that an eritrean
migrant who raped a sixteen year old girl will not
be deported because the rape didn't last long enough.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh my god, she.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Missed her buss was walking through a pedestrian tunnel after
finishing her shift at a McDonald's. An eighteen year old
eritree migrants, Yazid Mohammad, attacked or raped her. He was
sentenced to three years in prison, and the prosecutor wanted
to deport him, but the Court of Appeals noted the
man has refugee status and to deport him would require
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a quote exceptionally serious offense and allowing them to remain
in Sweden would pose a serious threat to public order
in safety. But the rape was deemed not serious enough
to justify the deportation, with the Court of Appeal citing,
among other factors, the duration of the rape in its assessment,
which is just stunning. I know, it's terrible. This is
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Europe trying to figure out what the hell to do
with itself after allowing rampant immigration of people who in
many cases hate their culture, hate the dominant religion, and
stuff like that. Here's a freedom of information report from
the Center for Migration Control role in the UK. They
(23:03):
were keeping track of crime rates among various immigrant groups
that they refused to release to the press until a
freedom of information request. Which nationalities commit the most violent,
sexual and theft offenses. Conviction rates in England and Wales
by nationality per ten thousand people for the years twenty
twenty one through twenty twenty three violent crimes per ten
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thousand people. Sixteen UK natives get convicted of those crimes.
It's eighty, Gambians ninety one, iraqis one hundred and two
per ten thousand, Afghanistan citizens, Somalians about one hundred and thirty,
so we're almost ten times the rate of UK citizens
and Kungales it's one hundred and eighty seven per ten thousand.
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It's about twelve times as many as UK citizens. Sexual
violence UK citizens six per ten thousand, Afghans it's sixty
per ten thousand Eritreans it's fifty four Namibians, fifty Chadians,
forty Moldovan's thirty eight and theft eighteen per ten thousand
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native born Britz folks from Algeria. It's three hundred and
twenty for ten thousand, eighteen for Britz, three hundred and
twenty for Algerians, Moroccans. It's two hundred and twenty six Romanians,
one hundred and thirty two Congolese, one hundred and thirty
folks from Chad one hundred and twenty. They're poor people,
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many unskilled, who come to a country where they're not
supposed to be and not supposed to work. Of course
they turned the crime, but the Brits are desperate to
keep that quiet.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Kids and I ate at a well known diner chain
over the weekend. I'll call it Lenny's. I want to
talk about that in a second. But just came across
this information. We got an asteroid headed. It's not gonna
hit Earth, but it's gonna come. Asteroid Psyche sixteen is
its name. Anyway, They believe it contains because you know,
(25:08):
we send up these probes and everything like that to
these asteroids. This asteroid contains gold reserves worth seven hundred
quintillion dollars, which I don't actually know what a quintillion is, but.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And I'd buy a new car if I had that.
Ash sounds like a big number. Yeah, seven hundred quintillion
dollars worth of gold on it. It's enough to make
everyone on Earth billionaires. Of course, there's a economic flaw
with that argument.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I'm not sure gold would continue to hold the value
it has. We each had seven thousand pounds.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Of it, and the costs of extraction from a asteroid
hurtling through space have got to be considerable.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Would not be something if it hit Earth?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Trump aught annex its just in case everybody knows it's
ours all of a sudden, Gold's war because there's so
much of it. Yeah, that would be crazy. People would
be just literally, Oh, that reminds me. I was gonna say,
making solid gold toilets. I've been meaning to bring this
up for a long time, for days. Anyway, where is
(26:16):
that story? You remember the banana taped to the wall?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, the artist he taped a banana to the wall
and it was what did it represent?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Man than humanity? Demand? And somebody paid like a million
dollars for the art. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Well, the same artist behind the six point two million
dollar duct tape banana has created an eighteen carrot gold toilet.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
How many? How many million did you say the banana was?
Six point two was more than I even remembered. Can
you believe that?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
S Anyway, he sculpted a toilet out of two hundred
and twenty three pounds of gold. It's valued at about
ten million dollars just for the materials. Sothabies is betting
it can auction off the golden toilet bowl for even more.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They're going to start the bidding a ten million bucks.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's just your break even never mind, is is labor
for crafting a really pretty good looking solid gold toilet?
I mean it looks like a toilet in like your office. Well,
what's the name with the industrial flusher and stuff? What's
the name or the description of the art.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
What's it supposed to symbolize that we're flushing money down
the drain, or that everything you know turns to dust
and your money's worth nothing and all your money brilliant? Well,
not another moment by As quoted by the rock group
Kansas Yes Yes, in their work of Genius, let me
first remind you that the fruit duct tape to the
wall was entitled Comedian the Solid Gold Toilet. Now don't
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march on this place and burn it down. The title
of the Solid Gold Toilet is America twenty sixteen. Yeah,
Well that was pretty clever. This guy's clever. Some rich
progressive will buy that because they're progressive friends. They want
to be known as the person that bought the Trump's
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a Problem art.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I am going to protest the
solid gold toilet, and the nature of my protest will be.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
All too appropriate, I think, right.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I have something in mind, and it'll be called the
person who bought this has s for brains.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Exactly. That's what I will entitle my performance art. I
can't watch of that show, or at least I don't
want good seats.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Neither do I.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
The armstrong and getting shot.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Japan is grappling with a grizzly problem, deadly bear attacks.
A record twelve p people have been killed in more
than one hundred barren counters since April alone, and issues
so serious the country's pacifist military has taken the extraordinary
step to deploy forces to the northern Akita and Iwate
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prefectures armed with shields, bear spray and.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Traps to watch out.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Bears are gonna go Pearl harbor on you what they
got a national emergency Bear.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Attacks in Japan? Bears exactly right, there's one.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, Japanese bear attack the name of my new band.
We're going to tour with Toad the wet sprocket. That's
another good multi word panic at the disco. Yeah, you know,
in an all wordy band festival. Japanese bear attack.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What an interesting situation.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
They rarely use their military for anything. We trained for
a Chinese invasion or attack in the United States. Again,
we trained for all these things, but and got a
lot of how to handle bears.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
While we're watching China, our bears rose up.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah you know what, Donald Jay got very little credit
when he was in Asia a couple of weeks ago
for brow beaten a number of our allies to spend
more on defense for God's sake, to get beefed up,
gets strong because they're.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Gonna need it because of bear tas. No, No, I
was thinking more in terms of China.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
But a couple of things I want to get on
before we have to take a break again. I do
want to get into this person from the Heritage Foundation
that resigned yesterday, so unhappy about the leader of that
conservative organation backing Tucker and Nick Fuentes the way he did.
Now he has apologized even further. That's quite the interesting
inter intra conservative argument that's going on there. But and
(30:49):
it's kind of a cool thing too, because we police
are crazies, unlike the left.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
We've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Affordability is like the word of the last forty eight
hours with the election everything like that. Trump administration just
announced there's gonna be a big weight loss drug price
announcement coming today.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That is classic Trump, right there.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Nation of fat people who want their fat drugs cheaper,
that's what Trump's thinking. And I'm gonna announce that we're
gonna cut those way down and you can afford your
don't be fat drug.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's a nice way to step on yesterday's headlines. Yeah, yeah,
that's a good one. Came across this. Who's in charge
of security at the Louver me? The Louver Museum surveillance
password was Louver. Holy crap. They shouldn't have put me
in charge because that's why I do things. Isn't that
(31:44):
something that's like the guest password at your dentist's office
right now? Wow, and that's the security password.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That's pretty funny. How much time I got, Michael, depends
how you keep eating? Yeah, about one minute though.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I know we came up with a word for this.
When you're flummixed by some sort of technical thing and
you just and it's the feeling you get when you're
having that.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's just it's its only unique feeling. I think we
decided on texhaustion.
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I was trying to pay a bill online yesterday and
you go, you had to go through like and you
have to pay it this way, And I had to
go through like ninety steps to get to the end.
It took probably fifteen.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Minutes at least.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Wow, you know, press one for this, press two for that,
and then they say it and blah blah blah. And
at the end it was we'll send you a code.
You have to type in the code to show that
you and you know this is the right phone. And
every time I typed in the code, it would read
back the wrong numbers. I would type in six oh
three nine, and it would say five oh two six
is the wrong number. That's not what I typed in,
you bastards. Anyway, I did it like three or four times.
I was getting so mad, I thought I was going
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to punch a hole in the wall. That feeling is
my least favorite feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, the scourge of the modern man.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
There's nobody to complain to.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Armstrong Getty store is open, so some of you buy
stuff for your family or friends for Christmas, if they're
fans of this here radio program.
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It's just I feel like it's one for me.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I feel like it's one of those great excuse me,
easy gift, checked it off, didn't cost you much, straight
from the heart, seems like you did something nice.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It was really there will be laughter, tears, hugs, it
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You go to the Armstrong and Getty store, and Hanson,
who runs a damn thing, is really pushing people to
do it soon to make sure you get everything in
time for Christmas. There was some talk about the Armstrong
and Getty pickleball paddles. I thought it was pretty funny
that we had them, and then there were some complaints
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I have them.
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I bought mine at large five, I think, But they're
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What is wrong with this?
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This isn't doesn't feel like cheap Chinese crap it feels
like something quality to me. I like everything about it,
and it comes with this cool carrying case. Although they're
sold out, so they're I don't know why I'm even
talking about it. We're sold out of the pickleball pedals,
armstring can get a pick.
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A ball, but sold anymore. Not anymore.
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We're going to be back. But anyway, and go to
the store and see what we got.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, we put the lash to the Chinese slaves and
they made several more of them.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
What if we had adult items like the sort of
thing people were throwing on WNBA courts at one point,
like marital aids. We'll go on it for novelty purposes,
only take a and g to bed.
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Yes, I love that idea. Anyway, and you know we
need to branch out. We need to have more things.
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They're probably not as popular as the hoodies, including the
new Conscience of the Nation hoodie, the star of the
lazy Stupid should hurt stars including the f yolickin Party,
which I wear proudly, or stocking stuffers, ang coasters, decals,
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Water bottle, or the get your Words straight jack. No,
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enough of that.
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I'm trying to figure out what to do for my
kids this year. They're definitely the age they're almost fourteen,
almost sixteen, They're definitely past the age of more cheap
Chinese crap. There's just no reason so either an experience
or like accumulate the money into one actually worth something gift.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I think this year.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
God, when they're younger, it's just endless piles of cheap
Chinese crab is what they get when they're little kids,
and they're delighted, and that's fine, and it is cheap,
but it well, it was always interesting to me that
we would give our kids the same beloved toy that
we had, but you'd take it out of the package
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and instead of feeling like it could last, you know,
one hundred years. Yeah, it's cheap Chinese crab. Yeah, definitely,
Oh China. Definitely the modern version of something you played
with as a kid that is just so flimsy and
light and poorly known.
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So I came across this in substack yesterday from this
guy named Timothy Lee, who I do not know. But
his article was he writes about AI for a living,
and his headline was AI skeptics and AI boosters are
both wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And I gave that a look.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Everybody's guessing to a certain extent here, but I just
thought this was an interesting tank, a take I hadn't
heard before. Earlier this month, he writes, I attended an
AI conference called the Curve in Berkeley, California, just a
few miles from where we are. A lot of people
there were agi pilled he calls it. For example, I
participated in a role playing exercise organized by this dude
(01:28):
who argues that AI systems will soon achieve human level intelligence.
Then they will rapidly improve themselves, leading to superhuman AI
capabilities and an extreme acceleration of scientific discovery and economic growth.
Then he went across the hall to another conference where
a different AGI pilled writer. That's someone who believes so
(01:52):
much of this, who believes the super intelligent AI will
kill everyone on the planet.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He said, to go back to the first one, he.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Said, at the opposite end of the spectrum, or skeptics
who believe AI is not just overhyped but practically useless.
This perspective wasn't well represented at the conference, but it
came up a lot. We mentioned this a couple of
weeks ago. There was a piece in The New York
Times quoting this study one of your big godfathers of AI.
You know, there's a handful of people that are really
well respected whenever they talk about AI. One of those
(02:24):
people wrote a column in The New York Times citing
this MIT study, which we have talked about before. A
recent study run by MIT's program that looks into this
sort of stuff found that ninety five percent of companies
that did AI pilot studies found little or no return
on their investment and financial analysis projects an estimated shortfall
(02:46):
of eight hundred billion dollars in revenue for AI companies
by the end of twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That it's not going to pan out near the way
they thought.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So that article got a lot of attention at the
time and apparently came up a lot in this conference.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Can contradict that right now, but go ahead to that later. No,
go ahead, Oh, just I happened to yesterday afternoon have
a conversation with a good friend who is an attorney
of great experience and success and worked for a fairly
important law firm. And he's actually my friend who I've
mentioned to his license to practice both in the US
(03:21):
and Britain.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He is no dummy.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He and his company are working with a certain university
on AI programs for law, and he was describing to
me how they were designing AI personas I think was
the term he used that would approach a problem as
he would not just as a generic attorney or as
(03:44):
a computer, but as he has and would throughout his career.
And that's based on extensive interviews and study of how
he doesn't, and he said the results were scary good.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, I don't buy the it's not going to be
profitable or be a thinging. I lean more toward ruining
the world than toward making it better personally, even though
I think it will make it better and it'll be
able to cure diseases and help you figure out medication
and all kinds of different things. But it at the
same time is going to ruin the world. And you know,
if it ruins the world, what good does it do?
(04:19):
If I mean, if nobody has jobs and nobody gets
together in relationships anymore, who cares if it's curing these obscure.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Answers right in the few remaining human beings, right produced Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
But anyway, I wanted to get to this part and
then I will shut up about it because I won't
worry out. But I thought it was this interesting, this
guy writes. My view is between these two extremes. I
think that AI has genuinely impressive capabilities that are likely
to improve further in the coming months and years. I
think the AI industry is likely to be profitable in
the wrong run, and that open AI's basic business model
is perfectly reasonable, but I don't think we're very close
(04:52):
to human level intelligence at all. I don't think AI
is about to drive the kind of massive social and
economic changes that Agi Pilled folk expect. Then it gets
into some of his reasoning after that that gets complicated
and uses phrases in terms that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You have to look up.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But there is a crowd out there that believes, well,
kind of what I just kind of what I just said,
but not completely. He believes, Yeah, it's a thing, and
it's gonna come along and it's going to be impactful,
but it's not going to upend society and our economic models.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
In ways that we need to be worried about. And
I hope the more right. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't
think he is.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think there is a wide swath of so called
white collar jobs that will vanish.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm completely convinced to that there's that.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And then I think a lot of these people, because
they're computer geeks, which in most cases by definition means
you're kind of like not a normal person in society,
I think they vastly underestimate what it's going to do
to relationships and society and coupling and all that sort
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of stuff, because there's such outliers as human beings to
start with, and I'm not sure that a lot of
these people even can conceive of thinking about that issue
because they just don't live in that world of like going.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Out on dating and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, and a lot of opinion leaders are also self
motivated go getters, and so they can't conceive of because
you no longer have to work to take care of yourself,
you become a blob of dinner on week because they
would find something right. But a hell of a lot
of human beings aren't made like that. Most, Yeah, the
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vast majority. And I feel like we've already seen enough of.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
The people having relationships with chatbots when it's at its
current level of engagement, that it's inevitable.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That it becomes a huge problem.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I can't I can't imagine the argument that says, no,
it's not it's not going to be a big deal.
You aren't going to have millions of inceell dudes who
are so obsessed with their AI chat bot and porn
that they never get with a real woman.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That won't happen. I don't understand that argument at all.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Right, Oh my gosh, I've got a great think piece
around here somewhere about the rise of that very sort
of young man and how they quickly become embittered and
hateful and for instance, kill Charlie Kirk or try to
put a bullet in Donald J.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Trump's head for the very scenario you were describing.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
And then then for women, because women tend to be
more about the emotions than most dudes in general. Man,
the getting some sort of comfort from a chat dude
that talks to you about your problems and agrees that
you've been wronged by your mom and your sister.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I just think that's going to be a huge thing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Right, just as an aside as you were a speaking
Jack quickly did a search on how old is the
saying idle hands are the devil's playthings? Or are similar
phrasings of the same thought, And it definitely goes back
to the Old Testament. Sure it's in proverbs idle hands
are the dull It depends which just translation you have.
(08:20):
It endured throughout the early days of Christianity. Here are
a bunch of citations from the medieval period. Here are
early English usages in the fifteen hundreds through the seventeen hundreds.
The wording probably solidified in the eighteenth or nineteenth century,
but the idea itself is at least fourteen hundred years old,
(08:40):
with deep roots in early Christian moral teaching. It is
an idea that has never receded from human consciousness, that
idle hands are the devil's playthings. And yet we are
moving as quickly as possible toward a mechanism to idle
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as many hands as possible.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That's only works, that's true, But it only works because
you believe that a lot of people are not self
motivated to do something. The remember Nancy Pelosi famously saying,
this will be a chance everybody can be an artist
or a poet or whatever. Yeah, a lot of people
are going to kind of talk about that, but they
aren't going to like engage in eight hours of effort
(09:23):
every single day to be whatever they're going to be
and be occupied. No, they're going to sit around and
get you know, naval gazingly selfish and insular in their lives,
and it's going to go off the.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Rails and high and I all right, here's a little
poetry for you. Nancy Roses are red, violets are blue.
AGI is here, Humanity's through there you go, there's a
little uh artificial generalized intelligence.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's the AGI. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, Yeah, it's not a good poem, but you know,
I'm a beginner.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
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Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So there are a couple of topics.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Climate cultism is one and gender cultism is another, where
the tide is finally starting to turn, although I would
argue you've got a hell of a long road to
go before sanity's really install restored. And we've got a
gender bending madness update coming up next hour. But on
the climate thing, Bill Gates made a lot of headlines
this week when he said, essentially, yeah, maybe like doing
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everything we can possibly do to reduce emissions at the
cost of our economies and standards of living, et cetera,
as maybe not the right strategy. Why don't we just
deal with maybe some of that's come for slight climate
changes might cause and look after people being able to
feed themselves and not die of diseases and stuff like that,
(10:58):
instead of putting all of ours in the climate basket.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Why he made that change.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Maybe he just woke up to reality in my opinion,
or whether he's motivated by AI's voracious need for electricity,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, just his.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Flat statement of mankind is not going to come to
its end because of climate change. What's the flat out
opposite of what he've been saying for twenty years right? Well,
and also the idea that we, in particular the Western world,
because the other parts of the world don't give a crap,
that we can make these enormous sacrifices and it will
(11:33):
turn the tide has never been true. It was demonstrably
false for years, and he's finally woken up to it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Anyway, I thought this was interesting headline, The World turns
to Energy Pragmatism, happens to be in the Dispatch Energy
section sponsored by the Pacific Legal Foundation, good friends of
the Armstrong and Getty Show, and let's see Roger Pilke
is writing about the fact that you've got leaders all
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around the world saying similar things, like Canadian Prime Minister
Mark Karney. A decade ago, he warned that remaining fossil
fuel reserves may become unburnable if the world wants to
avoid a climate catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
In recent months, he's.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Fast tracked approval of new liquefied natural gas export terminals
in British Columbia, promising quote, to transform our country.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Into an energy superpower. Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
In the UK, Prime Minister kir Starmer, who needs to
get out of office as soon as possible, must soon
decide whether to relax aggressive climate targets that have crippled
Britain's economy. A government insider recently told The Guardian, quote,
if it comes to a choice between hitting the climate
target and overpaying, or missing it and keeping costs down,
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we're going to miss it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Britain went net zero and just destroyed their economy. As
listened to a podcast about that a couple of weeks ago,
and it was shocking that I wasn't more aware of this,
the damage they did to their own economy over this.
Thank god we didn't. Oh yeah, yeah, you got your.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
German Chancellor Freddie Mertz recently acknowledged the competing economic objectives
that a company an ambitious climate agenda.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
None of us are questioning the goal of climate protection.
All of us are of the opinion we must combine
this with the competitiveness of European industry. All the people
who have had their economic prospects crushed over the last
fifteen years are probably saying, oh, great, way to wake
up now, Fred.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But it's actually more than that.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Like your Greek Prime minister, Unpronounceable, writing for The Financial Times,
argued in favor of a more pragmatic energy transmission transition. Quote,
if we must accept some emissions for a bit longer
to save our industries or to maintain social cohesion, so
be it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We have to have these debates. Honestly.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
We cannot begin with climate neutrality and hope everything else
falls into place.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, a lot of us have been saying that for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, practically word for word, one or two more and
then more. On that theme, Chris Coons of Delaware, a
highly partisan Democrat, recently told Politico that climate is not
a top three issue right now.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Senator Brian Shatz of Hawaii, it's pretty name when even
further or arguing at an unfortunate event, Yes, at a
New York Times event last month, that costs need to
be front and center when talking about energy. Quote, you
could talk about the planetary emergency and mitigation and adaptation.
You could throw in some environmental justice rhetoric, but by
(14:33):
the time you're done talking, people don't think you care
about them. The way to victory is to talk about price. Okay, welcome,
glad to have you at the party.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Sure, we're just cleaning up and washing the dishes. You
know what, Yes, you've You've been having a shats on
the American people for too long with your climate cultism.
My god, so the one bitter note about people finally
coming correct.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Careers were crushed, People run.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Out of science and academia for saying these very things.
People were like canceled on Twitter and Facebook for saying
the very things the left is now saying.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Have we learned something from COVID or climate and the
trans craziness that you got to let people have their
opinions out there?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Probably for a while we have, and then those lessons
get fuzzier over time and you repeat them. History doesn't
repeat itself, but it rhymes. As they say, still laughing
over your joke? How I agree, shut up? It's time
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You She's a poor autistic kid who got exploited by
adults who made millions of dollars off the climate scam.
I shouldn't be mean to her. I mean she's an
adult now.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
But please, well then I should be back in school.
You know, you're right. They ran into the problem.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The climate change activists of like a lot of doomsday cults,
like you know, the world is going to end on
twenty nineteen, and then twenty nineteen comes in the world
doesn't and you kind of and ruins your credibility. And
that's what happened with a lot of your climate change stuff.
I mean, you go back and look at some of
the things Al Gore claim was going to happen by
twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, yeah, Well, and then the claims of the effect
that their policies would have.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Are completely fanciful.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You haven't changed the output of you know, crap globally speaking,
nearly enough to crap. That's a nice technical term, you know,
the fossil fuels and carbon and the rest of it.
You haven't changed it nearly enough to matter. So quit
wasting our time in economies on your cult. And again,
how often do you see this pattern? There are people
(16:51):
making billions and billions of dollars off of selling climate fear,
and then you've got the good hearted, soft headed gretitunbergs
the world and the college kids on the campuses who
believe it with one sincerity, and they're the army that
marches for the activists.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I think in honor of Dick Cheney's passing, we should
waterboard Bill Gates to find out what made him change
his mind.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I love that idea.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
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Speaker 4 (17:44):
If you're I'm guessing most of you don't pay any
attention to think tanks at all, but if you, if
you're lean conservative and you do know anything about him.
Heritage Foundation was huge and big, and we talked a
lot last week about how disappointing it was that they
became so concerned not angering Tucker Carlson apparently and attacked
anybody who criticized him.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Platforming Nazis story out to kissing Vladimir Putin's ass too.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
By the way, story out today. This is in the
Wall Street Journal. The crack up at the Heritage Foundation
is a warning sign for MAGA. Employees at the Heritage
Foundation who had been working on Ukraine policy were asked
to watch Tucker Carlson's monologues, which were full of conspiracy
theories about the war and just flat out lies, to
(18:32):
delete past tweets in support of Ukraine aid I guess
in case Tucker saw them, and to write papers reflecting
the new more isolationist policy at Heritage. This was to
the employees working on Ukraine policy, you need to watch
more of the Tucker Carlson monologues at Heritage.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Isn't that something?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, to which David French, who I don't always agree
with but writes for The New York Times, the rot
is so incredibly deep. It's astonishing to me that the
Heritage Foundation, of all institutions, would become an instrument of
Russian propaganda. That's what Tucker Carlson's monologues were, pure propaganda.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So all right, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Like he's ooing an eyeing over the grocery store and
in Yeah, that was just shameless.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, And how you know, Putin's standing up for Christianity
and traditional values and stuff like that, and uh, you know,
like I said earlier, I don't quite understand how powerful
Tucker is or Candice owns or Nick Fwente's versus other things,
but Heritage apparently was scared of them. This is Joe's
(19:41):
been talking about this more than me. But this will
continue to have other shoes dropping. The immigration problem they
got in Europe, particularly in this case Great Britain. Looking
at this picture of a boat from today, fifteen hundred
Channel migrants. That's what they call people that who enter
Great Britain from France and just come across whatever it is,
sixty miles the channel.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
They were living in the English Channel and now they're
living here.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Fifteen hundred Channel migrants have crossed illegally from France since Thursday,
for the third straight day. Hundreds more are crossing into
UK waters. Total this year now is over thirty eight
thousan five hundred, which is a tiny number by US
Joe Biden era standards, but a lot from there, well
ahead of the thirty six thousand who arrived during the
whole of twenty twenty four. So I got people showing
(20:26):
up in boat loads illegals from all around, mostly from
Middle East Africa, get into France. Once they get into Europe,
and then crossing the channel in these boats and for
whatever reason the rules in Great Britain they don't have
a way to stop the vessels and turn them around
or keep them from coming on shore.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, part of that's EU and part of its although
they did the breaks of part of it's that they've
got progressives in charge.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Worth mentioning because I just happened to check this.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The UK as a whole has about a fifth of
our population, so if you want to talk about disruptive
inflo luence of immigrants from other cultures, you know that's
pretty big number that they were talking about, dwarfed by
the Biden era quite so. Oh, speaking of the immigration problem,
you mind if I squeezes in real quick. I mentioned
(21:14):
earlier the shameless Metrocropolitan Police trying to downplay an ugly,
ugly murder by an Afghan immigrant on an old man,
and how they just in Orwellian fashion, turned it into
an incident in which a man sadly died like you know,
he'd had a heart attack and died alone watching the TV.
(21:35):
But then you've got this story out of it's reloading,
thank you very much. Swedish court ruled that an eritrean
migrant who raped a sixteen year old girl will not
be deported because the rape didn't last long enough.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh my god, she.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Missed her buss was walking through a pedestrian tunnel after
finishing her shift at a McDonald's. An eighteen year old
eritree migrants, Yazid Mohammad, attacked or raped her. He was
sentenced to three years in prison, and the prosecutor wanted
to deport him, but the Court of Appeals noted the
man has refugee status and to deport him would require
(22:18):
a quote exceptionally serious offense and allowing them to remain
in Sweden would pose a serious threat to public order
in safety. But the rape was deemed not serious enough
to justify the deportation, with the Court of Appeal citing,
among other factors, the duration of the rape in its assessment,
which is just stunning. I know, it's terrible. This is
(22:39):
Europe trying to figure out what the hell to do
with itself after allowing rampant immigration of people who in
many cases hate their culture, hate the dominant religion, and
stuff like that. Here's a freedom of information report from
the Center for Migration Control role in the UK. They
(23:03):
were keeping track of crime rates among various immigrant groups
that they refused to release to the press until a
freedom of information request. Which nationalities commit the most violent,
sexual and theft offenses. Conviction rates in England and Wales
by nationality per ten thousand people for the years twenty
twenty one through twenty twenty three violent crimes per ten
(23:27):
thousand people. Sixteen UK natives get convicted of those crimes.
It's eighty, Gambians ninety one, iraqis one hundred and two
per ten thousand, Afghanistan citizens, Somalians about one hundred and thirty,
so we're almost ten times the rate of UK citizens
and Kungales it's one hundred and eighty seven per ten thousand.
(23:51):
It's about twelve times as many as UK citizens. Sexual
violence UK citizens six per ten thousand, Afghans it's sixty
per ten thousand Eritreans it's fifty four Namibians, fifty Chadians,
forty Moldovan's thirty eight and theft eighteen per ten thousand
(24:13):
native born Britz folks from Algeria. It's three hundred and
twenty for ten thousand, eighteen for Britz, three hundred and
twenty for Algerians, Moroccans. It's two hundred and twenty six Romanians,
one hundred and thirty two Congolese, one hundred and thirty
folks from Chad one hundred and twenty. They're poor people,
(24:34):
many unskilled, who come to a country where they're not
supposed to be and not supposed to work. Of course
they turned the crime, but the Brits are desperate to
keep that quiet.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Kids and I ate at a well known diner chain
over the weekend. I'll call it Lenny's. I want to
talk about that in a second. But just came across
this information. We got an asteroid headed. It's not gonna
hit Earth, but it's gonna come. Asteroid Psyche sixteen is
its name. Anyway, They believe it contains because you know,
(25:08):
we send up these probes and everything like that to
these asteroids. This asteroid contains gold reserves worth seven hundred
quintillion dollars, which I don't actually know what a quintillion is, but.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And I'd buy a new car if I had that.
Ash sounds like a big number. Yeah, seven hundred quintillion
dollars worth of gold on it. It's enough to make
everyone on Earth billionaires. Of course, there's a economic flaw
with that argument.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I'm not sure gold would continue to hold the value
it has. We each had seven thousand pounds.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Of it, and the costs of extraction from a asteroid
hurtling through space have got to be considerable.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Would not be something if it hit Earth?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Trump aught annex its just in case everybody knows it's
ours all of a sudden, Gold's war because there's so
much of it. Yeah, that would be crazy. People would
be just literally, Oh, that reminds me. I was gonna say,
making solid gold toilets. I've been meaning to bring this
up for a long time, for days. Anyway, where is
(26:16):
that story? You remember the banana taped to the wall?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, the artist he taped a banana to the wall
and it was what did it represent?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Man than humanity? Demand? And somebody paid like a million
dollars for the art. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Well, the same artist behind the six point two million
dollar duct tape banana has created an eighteen carrot gold toilet.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
How many? How many million did you say the banana was?
Six point two was more than I even remembered. Can
you believe that?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
S Anyway, he sculpted a toilet out of two hundred
and twenty three pounds of gold. It's valued at about
ten million dollars just for the materials. Sothabies is betting
it can auction off the golden toilet bowl for even more.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They're going to start the bidding a ten million bucks.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's just your break even never mind, is is labor
for crafting a really pretty good looking solid gold toilet?
I mean it looks like a toilet in like your office. Well,
what's the name with the industrial flusher and stuff? What's
the name or the description of the art.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
What's it supposed to symbolize that we're flushing money down
the drain, or that everything you know turns to dust
and your money's worth nothing and all your money brilliant? Well,
not another moment by As quoted by the rock group
Kansas Yes Yes, in their work of Genius, let me
first remind you that the fruit duct tape to the
wall was entitled Comedian the Solid Gold Toilet. Now don't
(27:45):
march on this place and burn it down. The title
of the Solid Gold Toilet is America twenty sixteen. Yeah,
Well that was pretty clever. This guy's clever. Some rich
progressive will buy that because they're progressive friends. They want
to be known as the person that bought the Trump's
(28:09):
a Problem art.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I am going to protest the
solid gold toilet, and the nature of my protest will be.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
All too appropriate, I think, right.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I have something in mind, and it'll be called the
person who bought this has s for brains.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Exactly. That's what I will entitle my performance art. I
can't watch of that show, or at least I don't
want good seats.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Neither do I.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
The armstrong and getting shot.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Japan is grappling with a grizzly problem, deadly bear attacks.
A record twelve p people have been killed in more
than one hundred barren counters since April alone, and issues
so serious the country's pacifist military has taken the extraordinary
step to deploy forces to the northern Akita and Iwate
(29:14):
prefectures armed with shields, bear spray and.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Traps to watch out.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Bears are gonna go Pearl harbor on you what they
got a national emergency Bear.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Attacks in Japan? Bears exactly right, there's one.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, Japanese bear attack the name of my new band.
We're going to tour with Toad the wet sprocket. That's
another good multi word panic at the disco. Yeah, you know,
in an all wordy band festival. Japanese bear attack.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What an interesting situation.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
They rarely use their military for anything. We trained for
a Chinese invasion or attack in the United States. Again,
we trained for all these things, but and got a
lot of how to handle bears.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
While we're watching China, our bears rose up.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah you know what, Donald Jay got very little credit
when he was in Asia a couple of weeks ago
for brow beaten a number of our allies to spend
more on defense for God's sake, to get beefed up,
gets strong because they're.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Gonna need it because of bear tas. No, No, I
was thinking more in terms of China.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
But a couple of things I want to get on
before we have to take a break again. I do
want to get into this person from the Heritage Foundation
that resigned yesterday, so unhappy about the leader of that
conservative organation backing Tucker and Nick Fuentes the way he did.
Now he has apologized even further. That's quite the interesting
inter intra conservative argument that's going on there. But and
(30:49):
it's kind of a cool thing too, because we police
are crazies, unlike the left.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
We've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Affordability is like the word of the last forty eight
hours with the election everything like that. Trump administration just
announced there's gonna be a big weight loss drug price
announcement coming today.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That is classic Trump, right there.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Nation of fat people who want their fat drugs cheaper,
that's what Trump's thinking. And I'm gonna announce that we're
gonna cut those way down and you can afford your
don't be fat drug.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's a nice way to step on yesterday's headlines. Yeah, yeah,
that's a good one. Came across this. Who's in charge
of security at the Louver me? The Louver Museum surveillance
password was Louver. Holy crap. They shouldn't have put me
in charge because that's why I do things. Isn't that
(31:44):
something that's like the guest password at your dentist's office
right now? Wow, and that's the security password.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That's pretty funny. How much time I got, Michael, depends
how you keep eating? Yeah, about one minute though.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I know we came up with a word for this.
When you're flummixed by some sort of technical thing and
you just and it's the feeling you get when you're
having that.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's just it's its only unique feeling. I think we
decided on texhaustion.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I was trying to pay a bill online yesterday and
you go, you had to go through like and you
have to pay it this way, And I had to
go through like ninety steps to get to the end.
It took probably fifteen.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Minutes at least.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Wow, you know, press one for this, press two for that,
and then they say it and blah blah blah. And
at the end it was we'll send you a code.
You have to type in the code to show that
you and you know this is the right phone. And
every time I typed in the code, it would read
back the wrong numbers. I would type in six oh
three nine, and it would say five oh two six
is the wrong number. That's not what I typed in,
you bastards. Anyway, I did it like three or four times.
I was getting so mad, I thought I was going
(32:50):
to punch a hole in the wall. That feeling is
my least favorite feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, the scourge of the modern man.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
There's nobody to complain to.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Armstrong Getty store is open, so some of you buy
stuff for your family or friends for Christmas, if they're
fans of this here radio program.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
It's just I feel like it's one for me.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I feel like it's one of those great excuse me,
easy gift, checked it off, didn't cost you much, straight
from the heart, seems like you did something nice.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It was really there will be laughter, tears, hugs, it
will be the bell of the ball.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
You go to the Armstrong and Getty store, and Hanson,
who runs a damn thing, is really pushing people to
do it soon to make sure you get everything in
time for Christmas. There was some talk about the Armstrong
and Getty pickleball paddles. I thought it was pretty funny
that we had them, and then there were some complaints
about them, and Hanson brought one in and I don't
have any idea what a really high quality pickleball pedals like.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I have them.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
I bought mine at large five, I think, But they're
just like this. There's nothing wrong with this. This is
perfectly fie. Unless you like, get serious serious about pickleball,
this is gonna be absolutely fine.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
What is wrong with this?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
This isn't doesn't feel like cheap Chinese crap it feels
like something quality to me. I like everything about it,
and it comes with this cool carrying case. Although they're
sold out, so they're I don't know why I'm even
talking about it. We're sold out of the pickleball pedals,
armstring can get a pick.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
A ball, but sold anymore. Not anymore.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
We're going to be back. But anyway, and go to
the store and see what we got.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, we put the lash to the Chinese slaves and
they made several more of them.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
What if we had adult items like the sort of
thing people were throwing on WNBA courts at one point,
like marital aids. We'll go on it for novelty purposes,
only take a and g to bed.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes, I love that idea. Anyway, and you know we
need to branch out. We need to have more things.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
They're probably not as popular as the hoodies, including the
new Conscience of the Nation hoodie, the star of the
lazy Stupid should hurt stars including the f yolickin Party,
which I wear proudly, or stocking stuffers, ang coasters, decals,
coffee mugs, stainless steel.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Water bottle, or the get your Words straight jack. No,
look that solid Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Anyway, that's
enough of that.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I'm trying to figure out what to do for my
kids this year. They're definitely the age they're almost fourteen,
almost sixteen, They're definitely past the age of more cheap
Chinese crap. There's just no reason so either an experience
or like accumulate the money into one actually worth something gift.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I think this year.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
God, when they're younger, it's just endless piles of cheap
Chinese crab is what they get when they're little kids,
and they're delighted, and that's fine, and it is cheap,
but it well, it was always interesting to me that
we would give our kids the same beloved toy that
we had, but you'd take it out of the package
(35:47):
and instead of feeling like it could last, you know,
one hundred years. Yeah, it's cheap Chinese crab. Yeah, definitely,
Oh China. Definitely the modern version of something you played
with as a kid that is just so flimsy and
light and poorly known.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Exactly Armstrong and Getty
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