August 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- A Look in the China Cabinet!
- Are we talking like chatbots?
- Illegal causes crash that kills family & Jack is going sailing
- Drunk AG arrested
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty. I am horrified at this story about
the illegal immigrant who killed all those people down in
Florida by making a U turn in the middle of
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the highway. How he ended up having a commercial driver's
license because of sanctuary cities and state policies is absolutely outrageous.
And we'll talk more about it later this hour.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, Gabby Newso, I'm gonna have yet another just ninety
ten issue hung around his neck if he decides to
run for president.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So, as a precursor to what we're about to discuss,
I don't think you can understand the world really until
you understand what a weird country we are. In a
lot of ways. We have been so safe and prosperous
and have such a great system and such a great
bill of rights that we are like by far the
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most optimistic people on Earth, and Americans are uncalculating in
a way that and this is my main point. We
don't understand that the rest of the world is not
nearly as carefree as we are. I mean we are.
Let's do a little dance and make a little love.
Get down tonight, you know, make a little money. Everybody's fine,
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everybody's most people are nice and blah blah blah. The
rest of the world is much more grim and calculating.
And in that spirit, let's take a look inside the
China cabin. It's my masquerading as clever name for several
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stories about China. China, we don't China's.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Salty another good point, and salty, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yes, we brought this up before, but there is a
congressional report out now in a demand of Harvard University
that they stop educating the elites of the Chinese Communist
Party and how to be more effective communists. The elite
of our universities, including Harvard, are, through the Kennedy School
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and other places, educating uh, the the well the elite. Again,
the most powerful people within the most powerful bodies of
the CCP. The collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School and
the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy at Pudong. That institution is
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controlled by the Central Organization Department, one of the most
powerful bodies within the CCP. It oversees shijin Ping thought
training programs for party elites and controls placement in key
communist party roles, and high ranking members of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences. And these people are sent to
the Harvard Kennedy School as part of the Organization Department's
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education and training. And these Congress people are sending a
letter to the head guy at Harvard, President Alan Garber,
saying what are you doing? And it's a reasonable question
to cite some obvious, probably too obvious, historical parallels. Harvard
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wasn't in nineteen thirty eight, you know, getting Joseph Goebbels
to be better at propaganda, you know, in exchange for
a full ride, you know, tuition.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't even know what to think of this.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's insane. Yeah, well, you know what, it's not insane.
It is a hangover, a holdover from that few decades
long period where we got duped into thinking China wanted
to reform and it wanted to become, you know, a
happy free market, to participant in the Community of Nations.
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But like everybody knows, that's not true now except academia.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But helping communists be better in the Communist Party. It's
right there in the name Communist. We used to be
really against.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That, right. And Mike Gallagher has a piece in the
Wall Street Journal's opinion section today.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Which might get you. There's like five of them.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I know. This is the former very sane, very
serious congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the Select Committee on
the Chinese Communist Party, distinguished fellow at the Hodgson Institute. Anyway,
his piece is entitled, Send Harvard's Chinese students home. It
makes no sense for the U to be educating the
scientific and leadership clash of a future adversary. For decades,
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Republicans and Democrats agreed our universities were crowned jewels of
American exceptionalism, and Harvard shown brightest of all. Mister Trump, however,
has an uncanny knack for exposing rotten shibboliths. In recent
years have seen top universities unmasked as global far left
patronage networks, using research as a smoke screen to prevent
scrutiny of campus hate as they aid adversaries like China.
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Roughly thirty percent of Harvard's student body is foreign. At Columbia,
it's almost forty percent, and America's top universities benefit from
billions of dollars in government grants and tax breaks while
admitting fewer Americans every year.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'd like to know what it is in my local
college town, because it's pretty high.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah yeah. Oh. Meta's chief AI officer, Alexander Wang has
argued that the rate of AI progress maybe such the quote,
you need to prevent all of our secrets from going
over to our adversaries, and you need to lock down
the labs. Thousands of Chinese citizens. Chinese citizens are working
and studying in such labs. The US hosted one point
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one million international students last year. Of those, twenty five
percent came from China, more than a quarter million.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know somebody in academia who worked in a lab
with Chinese citizens who were there in the lab also,
and they would never talk about anything because they were
worried about if you brought up anything political. They would
never say anything. With the assumption from this person, I
know that they were scared to say anything because it
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would get reported back.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
In twenty twenty two, foreign nationals, many of them Chinese,
accounted for almost forty percent of science doctorates in the
United states almost forty percent. Wow, that is incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We are educating our number one global enemy for the
next you know, for the foreseeable future. China will be
our number one enemy on planet Earth, and we're educating
their scientists.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And Beijing is aggressively cultivating American educated and American employed
researchers by the Thousand Talents program. That's part of their
whole of society. Everybody has to be bent on China
being a sendant and squashing the US Blindly embracing academic
cooperation with geopolitical rivals is absurd. Nobody suggests we should
train i Iranian nuclear physicists or Russian ballistics engineers. The
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US wouldn't have been better off collaborating more with Nazi
Germany in the thirties or with the Soviet during the
Soviets during the Cold War. Why make an exception for
a nation dedicated to surpassing the US in emerging technologies?
Then he mentions that universities loved the Chinese students because
they generally pay full freight, often subsidized by the Chinese
Communist Party. What the hell are we doing? And then
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finally this speaking of money, and I mentioned this once
but it is absolutely worth digging into. There is a
nonprofit called the Energy Foundation China. It is based in
San Francisco and according to its website, EFC has disbursed
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over half a billion dollars to more than four thousand
climate related projects, many of them in the US. Well,
wait a minute, since the Chinese Communist Party controls everything,
why is a Chinese Chinese? Excuse me? The Communist Party
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run foundation financing thousands of climate related projects. Uh, it's
Ceoba the Way is based in Beijing and has a
background of strong CCP affiliations. Well, here's the deal, and
Ted Cruz has dug into this. China has realized that
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a if they can shove us away from steady sources
of energy, it hurts our economy. As they're building, they're
burning and building coal plants as fast as they can.
Plus they're pushing us as hard as they can toward
renewable energy. Who has cornered the market on the critical
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rare earth minerals for instance, batteries, etc. Who has cornered
the market on all that stuff in renewable energy? China?
So they are financing all of these Americans so called
environmental groups screaming for us to give up fossil fuels
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and embrace technologies that China controls.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
They must, they're at Communist party headquarters. Parties just throw
back their heads and laughter sometimes at.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
The things they're able to pull up.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Hey, guess what I bought another one hundred acres next
to a military base?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You did, yeah, right next to it? Or did you
claim to be? I just said who I was? Yeah,
they just let you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Or this we're financing that giant rally. You's on TV
the other day where they're saying, you know, down.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
With fossil fuels.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We paid for that, And then the hippies push for
all these programs that then we sell them the stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah. Their largest state, California, has given up producing the safest, cleanest,
best policies for workers oil that is produced anywhere on Earth,
and instead has instead outsourced it to despicable regimes that
don't give a crap about the environment or their workers.
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That's enlightened California. And when they're not doing that, they're
doubling down on technologies that we control and can get them.
We can threaten to choke that stuff off, and Donald
Trump will let Nvidia sell their most advanced chips or
damn near to the Chinese Communist Party because we've gotten
them to buy the green energy scam. We are a
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stupid people, all right. See, certainly our leaders are. That's
your look inside the China cabinet up, sir.
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clarified her sexuality. Finally.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I don't know who that is, so I just thought
that was a funny headline. She's an actress of some sort.
She has clarified her sexuality for anybody who was wondering.
Having come out as a lesbian a year ago, she
now says she could be attracted to anyone or anything,
any anything, a bowl of soup, a dog, a door knob, anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Surely you have limits.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I find headlines like that funny.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Are we starting to talk like chat bots?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Doubt it, but it's kind of an interesting thought among
other things we have on the way.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Stay here, verdict, we the jury find that Finnit guilty
as to all six countil deep dell of indictment.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I'm chureful you please hand us to its council couldn't
pass it over to I say not sorry, we the
jury find that Finnan not guilty on all six counts.
I apologize for my mispreciation.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, that's not a mispronunciation. That's that's declaring the opposite
of the result. It was just one word off. You're quibbling.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Meanwhile, the defendant fell over of a heart attack. Oh yeah, Oh,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Did I say guilty? I meant not guilty?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What? Wow? And the laughing at the end of it, Yeah,
rubbed me the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I think it's the laughter of people who are horrified.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Do you marry the bride? No, not a chance. I
mean I mean yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yes, I'm sorry I misspoke. Well better that direction than
the other one, though, I find you not guilty. You
can go free and embrace your family. Oh what's that? No,
I'm sorry guilty. No, you're in jail for the rest
of your life, Fanny. Sorry, but sorry for mispronouncing that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Again. I don't know if I buy this story in
the Washington Post today. It's happening. People are starting to
talk like talk like chat GPT. Actually I don't believe
this at all, and I use chat GPT, probably more
than the average person. It says, here, if you use
chat GPT, claude, Gemini or other AI powered chat bots,
So claude which one's claude that it's a big one.
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I can't remember whose that is, but I always it's
always on the line. I need to try that. I try,
I try chat GPT, and I do grow, but I
haven't done the other ones anyway, It says, you're probably
I'm operating under the assumption that you're both speaking the
same language. You input English, it outputs English, except that's
a misconception. You've actually been speaking different languages. I find
this fascinating. Rather than processing text like a human, the
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chatbot turns your prompt into an embedding, a group of
numbers represented in a vector space, kind of like coordinates
on a map. But just as a map is a
representation of representation of territory, this embedding is a flattened
representation of language.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The chatbot then formulates a reply.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Making a word by word prediction based on how it
was trained to answer past inputs. It sounds like it's
thinking and talking, but it's not. So this prediction chat
the chatbot is making draws on biased training data, the
specific texts it learns from biased reinforcement learning, the feedback
it receives. Ultimately, what looks like English to you is
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really just you know, trying to take human speech and
make it sound real. But it's using the predictions based
on all the inputs that can be flawed, which we
all need to recognize, like immediately, I think it's too
late already. But the examples they give in here about
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how we're starting to talk like chat GPT, which again
I don't think is happening. Chat GPT uses the word
delve at higher rates than people use when writing or
speaking English, according to a study.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And well we should examine, come a further study, come
a look more into that. But now people.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Are starting to use it more often, according to this
researcher in articles and speech, because chat GPT used it
more often. So it's pushing the way we talk more
towards the way it talks. And the checkers say that
delve has become more common in speech since chat GPT launched,
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and delve is just one example of words that he uses.
Do you buy that at all? I just don't buy
this at all.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I don't know. I read the same piece, and it
says that part of it is that the people who
look over these systems that are like the employees of
the large language model companies, are often low wage workers
from like Nigerian Kenya, where delve is used at a
higher rate than in American or British English. I don't know.
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I don't think how intricate, commendable and meticulous. But I
don't think I've.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Picked up any sayings or words from the chatbots that
I just find that impossible to believe. I do think
that we all need to recognize that it's all about
it predicts the next word based on all the inputs
it's been getting from all these different sources, and it's
not actually thinking, right but right, you know, especially if
you're using the audio one. It sounds like a person
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and it calls me buddy, so.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Well, and if it predicts the answer that I'm looking for, great, right,
all right, it's not thinking. It's not intelligence at all.
It's just a glorified madlib. I'm going to get very
angry next segment, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Tragedy on a Florida Turnpike.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Terrifying video shows an illegal immigrant from India, a truck
driver allegedly making a reckless U turn that caused a crash,
killing three people. That driver now facing potential deportation.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So that's sort He got a fair amount of attention
over the weekend early in the week, but as more
details come forward on this illegal who had a commercial
truck driving license, it gets more outrageous. Here's another report
from Fox News.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Following the wreck, investigators with the US DOT gave sing
an English language proficiency test. According to a DOT press release,
the driver failed the assessment, providing correct responses to just
two of twelve verbal questions and only accurately identifying one
of four highway traffic signs. Because Singh, who entered the
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US from Mexico in twenty eighteen, is an asylum seeker
from India, the DOT says Washington State violated federal guidelines
by issuing him a full term commercial driver's license in
twenty twenty three, and they believe New Mexico State police
may have failed to assess his English skills during a
roadside inspection. Additionally, the DOT says it's investigating whether California
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acted within federal guidelines when it issued sing a limited
term CDL in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So he had three states that pride themselves on being
up with illegals and sanctuaries and all that sort of
stuff that helped this guy have a commercial driver's license
be behind the wheel of a giant semi truck when
he can't not only can he not read or speak English,
but he can't even identify me. Because traffic signs are
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shapes and colors that you don't even need to be
able to read that they're usually pictures. He couldn't identify those.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He couldn't. He got one out of four.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
There are no standards, no, no yet. Well clearly, yeah,
just pretty much anybody who could fog a mirror, who
wanted to drive a semi truck could in California, Washington,
and then you could hang onto your license in New Mexico.
Let's hear from the Attorney General of Florida as he's
been The crash happened in Florida, so they've been looking
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into this guy's background.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, it's a horrific situation.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
California should not have provided this person the driver's license
and a permit not just for a car, but to
drive large scale trucks to then drive into Florida, engage
in this dangerous behavior and take the lives of three
others as really a tragedy. We're not going to deport
or let this guy out of our sights until we
have convicted him and ensured that he is behind bars
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for as long as possible, likely the rest of his
life life. Only then will we hand him over to
Ice for deportation. But he's going to serve his time.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, and you know, whatever the penalty is for killing
those people the way he did is you know, that's
that part of the story. But the important part of
the story for us, obviously is what what the hell
is the ideology behind we're going to give illegals licenses
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to drive semi trucks without them having the skills.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I mean, what is that ideology? What do you think
you're accomplishing. I just think it's the sanctuary ideology, which
is insane and just counter to all, you know, reasonableness.
We're just going to ignore laws and let people into
the country of willy nilly combined with desperate need for truckers.
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I think Gavy Knewsome probably had you know, various companies
saying look, we really need guys. You got to just
let these people get their licenses. I got this note
from Aleen anonymous.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well, and then he got the whole problem. We need
guys at the wage we're willing to pay because there
are legals we're willing to hire, which drives down wages.
So you wouldn't be hiring people who can speak English
and read traffic signs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh yeah, I wasn't defending it by any stretch, but
that's an excellent point. Got this note from Alien Anymous
worked on the Santa Rosa, California wildfire cleanup. Talked to
a bunch of truckers, and these guys are haul and
logs on mountain roads, and they said the young drivers frequently.
They all had stories about the dangers of the young
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truck drivers on these mountain roads because they're bad. And
they said the young drivers frequently spoke little to no
English and had limited to no training. That's crazy. Yeah,
And this is just this one, you know, unintentionally murderous
jackass in Florida.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
This reminds me of the homeless situation. And we talk
about a lot where like homest people can do all
kinds of things that you can't do They can have
an open container in the park, you can't. They can
let their dogs run around off leash, you can't. You
need to have your dog on leash and then show
your you know that, make sure your dog is registered
or you're gonna get a ticket.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Sure. And it's the same with like, if you're.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
A citizen following the law, you have to do all
kinds of things to get this license or that license,
and if you get caught without it, you're gonna be
in all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But if you're illegal, everything goes. You can do anything
you want.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, that's an insane way nutty way to craft society.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And it's yet another example of and we've talked about this.
I think it was our two of the show, The
Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters. The New York Times with
a big couple of features today on how people are
leaving the Democratic Party in drove in droves, and part
of that is what we've been talking about lately, the
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preference cascade, where people are realizing, Yeah, I thought all
this stuff was crazy, but nobody was saying anything, so
I thought maybe I was the crazy one, but no,
we shouldn't have people sneaking into the country and driving
trucks without any sort of training. That's insane. And so
I think those who promote and defend these policies, which
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are insane, are increasingly isolated, and thank goodness for it.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I'm trying to figure out because I haven't seen this
story anywhere but Fox and the New York Post?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Have you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Not that I recall.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So that's part of the problem is that sure, people
who already think the sanctuary thing is ridiculous, people who
watch Fox and read the New York Post, Uh, you
don't need to convince them. And then the rest of
the country won't hear the story because it's not convenient,
or it will seem race science or something right.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And you know, there are a couple other stories that
are fairly similar to the Denver Gang investigation nine month
operation targeting Trendy ar Agua. These guys are involved in
drugs and human trafficking and murder for hire and all
sorts of different stuff, and the progressive powers that be
was it?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
J D. E.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Vance was talking to Martha Raddits was it about this
apartment complex being taken over? And what she says something
the effective, Well, it's just one apartment complex taken over
by a dangerous foreign gang. You got. The mayor of
Boston yesterday was out and proud talking about, you know,
how how proud they are to be a sanctuary city
and they're not changing a damn thing. And I guess
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she's got good poll numbers on that in Boston. But man,
that philosophy is people are fleeing from it because it's nuts.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
How can you have truck drivers who don't speak a
word of English? How does that work with in the
way stations and loading and unloading and everything else. You
have to have people you're less than fifty to fifty
on knowing what road signs are. So Gavin Newsom's pushback
was that this guy had obtained a work work permit
while Trump was president. Okay, well, when or where or
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if he got a work permit is not as important
to me as how the hell did you give him
a commercial driver's license when he can't read the signs?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, and then the Trump administration shot back, no, we didn't.
We turned him down. He got it the next year
when Biden was in office. So nice, ploy Gavy.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So he got three sanctuary states New Mexico, California, Washington
involved in this story. That is just the most insane policy.
I don't know if I can think of one that
could beat that. The whole sanctuary thing is flat crazy.
Of course, I also don't understand how our system hasn't
taken care of this yet, how it hasn't reached the
Supreme Court in some version where they finally shut it
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down and say no, the sanctuary thing is, that's not
a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You can't do that, just like you can't do it
with gun laws or anything else. Well, ending our roundup
of progressive states, Oregon is just proudly announced it's thirty
seventh LAFT suit of the Trump administration this week. They've
already filed thirty six. They added a thirty seventh. Now
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it's nearly six times as many as the state filed
during his first year of his initial term of twenty seventeen.
Let's see. This one would challenge its threat to hold
withhold federal funds to support victims and survivors of crime
from states that refuse to assist with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Ah okay, so if you're a sanctuary state, you don't
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get crime money.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Keep riding that Democratic Party, keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Thirty seven lawsuits, that's plenty.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
As such a frustrating story. And you know, I don't
even have a imagine the relatives of the family killed
in the mini van when this guy made his I
legal return. You're telling me that guy that great big
semi truck can't read road signs, and he's here illegally.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And two different states give him licenses, and.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Then when he gets caught in another state and they
find out, wait a second, you got a license.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
With the kind of license you got, you need to
be able to read.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
English, and you can't.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
They didn't do anything well, and you know, not to
turn everybody bitter and angry, but this really it's even
more insidious than it seems, because the rest of us
are told, but you have to follow the law, and
you have to pay your taxes, and we will bust
you or find you, or take away your business license
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or whatever if we find you in the slightest violation
of our zillions of different rules. But these people know
it's fine. They can do whatever they want. It makes
people cynical and angry.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Before we take a break, I finally have my sailing
lessons this weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh good, A.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Phrase I never thought I would say. It is a tiny,
little man made lake in my neighborhood with these little,
tiny sailboats, and I'm probably gonna be out there with children.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I don't know who else is going to be taking lessons.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Pretty funny, though.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, I'm kind of jealous. Though I've never really sailed.
I have a friend who's been crazy into it since
he was a kid. Now his kids do it.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know that I'll be able to say that
I have sailed even after I've take these lessons. I mean,
I suppose I can say it, but I get a certificate.
It's two hours on Saturday from noon to two, and
then two hours on Sunday from noon to two, and
then I get a certificate, and I don't know what
the certificates is going to say or what it qualifies.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So the state of California to get you a commercial
boat captain's license.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Probably I can probably drive one of those great big
tankers to China full of cargo containers.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Or a ferry with hundreds of souls aboard around San
Francisco Bay, for instance. But as I've said.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mean, I haven't even taken the ridiculously short four
hour course on the tiny little sailboat and made lake yet,
but I've already started shopping for sailboats. I got my plans.
I mean, I'm going big, of course I am. That's
the way you gotta do, right, got to get the
captain's hat. Well, you got to get the outfit. Of course,
I have to get the outfit. But then you know,
I'll be sailing around the world.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Say yeah, NonStop to Tokyo, you know something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
My biggest problem with the idea of actual boating is
I get see six so damn easy at this point
in my life. Motion sickness. Oh try uh dramamine or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Boning, go with boning. Boning is better than boning. Yeah,
it makes you less drowsy. So we've been the Getty household.
We've sworn by it for years and years and years.
Many a whale watch and other aquatic voyage boning.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yep, and you've never chundered.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Uh no, no. In fact, I took it a little
late for one whale watching trip with the kids years
and years ago, and we started out on some really
choppy seas, and I felt some nausea coming on strong,
and then the drug kicked in and it was like, nope,
you're fine. Oh wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I read, I read. I read a whole bunch of
books about sailing around the world because I was obsessed
with it for a while. And uh. In one of
the books, this father and son they sailed around the
world just to them, which would be a really cool activity,
but they would talk about how when they would set
off from any port, it'd be several days of vomiting
before they got their sea legs as they call it,
and your body adjusts to it, and then the vomitings
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are I can't imagine doing a couple of days of
leaning over the railing vomiting until your body adjusts.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That sounds I just don't can't imagine doing that, trying
to stay hydrated and everything. Is that what people really
did prior to boning coming on the market. Probably that's
what getting your sea legs means.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
If you didn't know that, you just you throw up
until your body decides, Okay, I guess this is what
we're doing. It gives up.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Got that sounds horrific.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Wow, Anyway, I'll let you know how it goes. On Monday.
I'm gonna really talk a lot about you know, we
men of the sea.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So you'll be here. How about that one? I'm expecting
you like Churchill rum sodomy in the lash. That's what
keeps order above a board years sail boat.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
My parents supposed to get here. I overnighted it from Amazon.
My parent's supposed to get here on Friday afternoon. So
have that on my shoulder. That will be a good start.
Mail order parrots.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
More on the way.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Stay here, you're trustpassing.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
We gotta leave now. Number one, you're not gonna arrest us.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Number two, we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I'm an aging. I'm an aging. Good for you.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Put your hands off. I'm a ag.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What's going on there?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh my gosh, that's a couple of drunk hot chicks,
one of whom is a special Assistant Attorney General in
the State of Rhode Island, at a restaurant that they
were asked to leave and they wouldn't and were mouthy
and and loud? How how how how honorably abusive?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
How annoying do you have to be as hot chicks
to get kicked out of a restaurant because you're drunk pretty.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Damn and so the cops you can hear them. Look,
you gotta go all right now, you can't. You can't
arrest me. I'm an ag. And at one point, the
one chick says, uh, I want you to turn your
body cam off. Protocol is that you turn it off.
It's a citizen request that you turn it off. A
thing there. And you know what's funny is a great
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deal is being made of her being or any an
AG or assistant AG or whatever she was. But it's drunk,
mouthy hot chicks who don't like being told what to do.
You gonna regret this. I'm an ag.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
God, I'm glad I never did that. I think it's
got to be in your personality. Though I would never
it's just so not.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What I would do. And I like, Michael, run that
again real quickly because I want to draw attention to
my favorite exchange.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Your trustpassor we gotta leave now.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You go ahead, turn it off. You're trespassing. You need
to leave. You haven't noticified us that you were trespassing.
What did I just say to you? Shut your pie hole,
you mouthy wench.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
So I want to get these uh this story on
while we're still on in uh Los.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Angeles and'sah And then of course you tried to kick
out the police car at least cart door while she
was inside the which is a great way to prove
that you were not in this sort of person that
needs to be arrested. Right, You're not the a hole
in this situation.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You're not out of control. I'll show you how not
out of control I am by kicking the windows out
of the car. I want to get this story on
for all of our California stations or the rest of
the country who might ever think about being like California,
Please don't. This is from the executive chairman of bed
Bath and Beyond put out a statement we are not
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going to open or operate retail stores in California. This
is from bed Bath and Beyond. They have bed Bath beyonds.
Are they going to close them? Or I don't quite
get that. I guess some new ones. The decision isn't
about politics, it's about reality. California has created one of
the most overregulated, expensive and risky environments for businesses in America.
It's a system that makes it harder to employ people,
(35:57):
harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value
to customers. The result higher taxes, hire fees, higher wages
that many businesses simply can't sustain, and endless regulations that
strangle growth. It goes on and on and on at
bed Bath and beyond our responsibilities to our customers and
our shareholders.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
We'll no longer have stoes in California and lots and
lots of crime. You too can have this vote. Gavin
Newsom in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Friend, excellent point if you missed the segment or now,
or get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong
and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Getty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty. I am horrified at this story about
the illegal immigrant who killed all those people down in
Florida by making a U turn in the middle of
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the highway. How he ended up having a commercial driver's
license because of sanctuary cities and state policies is absolutely outrageous.
And we'll talk more about it later this hour.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, Gabby Newso, I'm gonna have yet another just ninety
ten issue hung around his neck if he decides to
run for president.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So, as a precursor to what we're about to discuss,
I don't think you can understand the world really until
you understand what a weird country we are. In a
lot of ways. We have been so safe and prosperous
and have such a great system and such a great
bill of rights that we are like by far the
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most optimistic people on Earth, and Americans are uncalculating in
a way that and this is my main point. We
don't understand that the rest of the world is not
nearly as carefree as we are. I mean we are.
Let's do a little dance and make a little love.
Get down tonight, you know, make a little money. Everybody's fine,
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everybody's most people are nice and blah blah blah. The
rest of the world is much more grim and calculating.
And in that spirit, let's take a look inside the
China cabin. It's my masquerading as clever name for several
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stories about China. China, we don't China's.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Salty another good point, and salty, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yes, we brought this up before, but there is a
congressional report out now in a demand of Harvard University
that they stop educating the elites of the Chinese Communist
Party and how to be more effective communists. The elite
of our universities, including Harvard, are, through the Kennedy School
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and other places, educating uh, the the well the elite. Again,
the most powerful people within the most powerful bodies of
the CCP. The collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School and
the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy at Pudong. That institution is
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controlled by the Central Organization Department, one of the most
powerful bodies within the CCP. It oversees shijin Ping thought
training programs for party elites and controls placement in key
communist party roles, and high ranking members of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences. And these people are sent to
the Harvard Kennedy School as part of the Organization Department's
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education and training. And these Congress people are sending a
letter to the head guy at Harvard, President Alan Garber,
saying what are you doing? And it's a reasonable question
to cite some obvious, probably too obvious, historical parallels. Harvard
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wasn't in nineteen thirty eight, you know, getting Joseph Goebbels
to be better at propaganda, you know, in exchange for
a full ride, you know, tuition.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't even know what to think of this.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's insane. Yeah, well, you know what, it's not insane.
It is a hangover, a holdover from that few decades
long period where we got duped into thinking China wanted
to reform and it wanted to become, you know, a
happy free market, to participant in the Community of Nations.
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But like everybody knows, that's not true now except academia.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But helping communists be better in the Communist Party. It's
right there in the name Communist. We used to be
really against.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That, right. And Mike Gallagher has a piece in the
Wall Street Journal's opinion section today.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Which might get you. There's like five of them.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I know. This is the former very sane, very
serious congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the Select Committee on
the Chinese Communist Party, distinguished fellow at the Hodgson Institute. Anyway,
his piece is entitled, Send Harvard's Chinese students home. It
makes no sense for the U to be educating the
scientific and leadership clash of a future adversary. For decades,
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Republicans and Democrats agreed our universities were crowned jewels of
American exceptionalism, and Harvard shown brightest of all. Mister Trump, however,
has an uncanny knack for exposing rotten shibboliths. In recent
years have seen top universities unmasked as global far left
patronage networks, using research as a smoke screen to prevent
scrutiny of campus hate as they aid adversaries like China.
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Roughly thirty percent of Harvard's student body is foreign. At Columbia,
it's almost forty percent, and America's top universities benefit from
billions of dollars in government grants and tax breaks while
admitting fewer Americans every year.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'd like to know what it is in my local
college town, because it's pretty high.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah yeah. Oh. Meta's chief AI officer, Alexander Wang has
argued that the rate of AI progress maybe such the quote,
you need to prevent all of our secrets from going
over to our adversaries, and you need to lock down
the labs. Thousands of Chinese citizens. Chinese citizens are working
and studying in such labs. The US hosted one point
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one million international students last year. Of those, twenty five
percent came from China, more than a quarter million.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know somebody in academia who worked in a lab
with Chinese citizens who were there in the lab also,
and they would never talk about anything because they were
worried about if you brought up anything political. They would
never say anything. With the assumption from this person, I
know that they were scared to say anything because it
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would get reported back.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
In twenty twenty two, foreign nationals, many of them Chinese,
accounted for almost forty percent of science doctorates in the
United states almost forty percent. Wow, that is incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We are educating our number one global enemy for the
next you know, for the foreseeable future. China will be
our number one enemy on planet Earth, and we're educating
their scientists.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And Beijing is aggressively cultivating American educated and American employed
researchers by the Thousand Talents program. That's part of their
whole of society. Everybody has to be bent on China
being a sendant and squashing the US Blindly embracing academic
cooperation with geopolitical rivals is absurd. Nobody suggests we should
train i Iranian nuclear physicists or Russian ballistics engineers. The
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US wouldn't have been better off collaborating more with Nazi
Germany in the thirties or with the Soviet during the
Soviets during the Cold War. Why make an exception for
a nation dedicated to surpassing the US in emerging technologies?
Then he mentions that universities loved the Chinese students because
they generally pay full freight, often subsidized by the Chinese
Communist Party. What the hell are we doing? And then
(07:55):
finally this speaking of money, and I mentioned this once
but it is absolutely worth digging into. There is a
nonprofit called the Energy Foundation China. It is based in
San Francisco and according to its website, EFC has disbursed
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over half a billion dollars to more than four thousand
climate related projects, many of them in the US. Well,
wait a minute, since the Chinese Communist Party controls everything,
why is a Chinese Chinese? Excuse me? The Communist Party
(08:37):
run foundation financing thousands of climate related projects. Uh, it's
Ceoba the Way is based in Beijing and has a
background of strong CCP affiliations. Well, here's the deal, and
Ted Cruz has dug into this. China has realized that
(08:58):
a if they can shove us away from steady sources
of energy, it hurts our economy. As they're building, they're
burning and building coal plants as fast as they can.
Plus they're pushing us as hard as they can toward
renewable energy. Who has cornered the market on the critical
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rare earth minerals for instance, batteries, etc. Who has cornered
the market on all that stuff in renewable energy? China?
So they are financing all of these Americans so called
environmental groups screaming for us to give up fossil fuels
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and embrace technologies that China controls.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
They must, they're at Communist party headquarters. Parties just throw
back their heads and laughter sometimes at.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
The things they're able to pull up.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Hey, guess what I bought another one hundred acres next
to a military base?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You did, yeah, right next to it? Or did you
claim to be? I just said who I was? Yeah,
they just let you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Or this we're financing that giant rally. You's on TV
the other day where they're saying, you know, down.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
With fossil fuels.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We paid for that, And then the hippies push for
all these programs that then we sell them the stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah. Their largest state, California, has given up producing the safest, cleanest,
best policies for workers oil that is produced anywhere on Earth,
and instead has instead outsourced it to despicable regimes that
don't give a crap about the environment or their workers.
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That's enlightened California. And when they're not doing that, they're
doubling down on technologies that we control and can get them.
We can threaten to choke that stuff off, and Donald
Trump will let Nvidia sell their most advanced chips or
damn near to the Chinese Communist Party because we've gotten
them to buy the green energy scam. We are a
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stupid people, all right. See, certainly our leaders are. That's
your look inside the China cabinet up, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You know there's a decent I was about to say
there's a decent chance. There's not.
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clarified her sexuality. Finally.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I don't know who that is, so I just thought
that was a funny headline. She's an actress of some sort.
She has clarified her sexuality for anybody who was wondering.
Having come out as a lesbian a year ago, she
now says she could be attracted to anyone or anything,
any anything, a bowl of soup, a dog, a door knob, anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Surely you have limits.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I find headlines like that funny.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Are we starting to talk like chat bots?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Doubt it, but it's kind of an interesting thought among
other things we have on the way.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Stay here, verdict, we the jury find that Finnit guilty
as to all six countil deep dell of indictment.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I'm chureful you please hand us to its council couldn't
pass it over to I say not sorry, we the
jury find that Finnan not guilty on all six counts.
I apologize for my mispreciation.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, that's not a mispronunciation. That's that's declaring the opposite
of the result. It was just one word off. You're quibbling.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Meanwhile, the defendant fell over of a heart attack. Oh yeah, Oh,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Did I say guilty? I meant not guilty?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What? Wow? And the laughing at the end of it, Yeah,
rubbed me the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I think it's the laughter of people who are horrified.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Do you marry the bride? No, not a chance. I
mean I mean yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yes, I'm sorry I misspoke. Well better that direction than
the other one, though, I find you not guilty. You
can go free and embrace your family. Oh what's that? No,
I'm sorry guilty. No, you're in jail for the rest
of your life, Fanny. Sorry, but sorry for mispronouncing that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Again. I don't know if I buy this story in
the Washington Post today. It's happening. People are starting to
talk like talk like chat GPT. Actually I don't believe
this at all, and I use chat GPT, probably more
than the average person. It says, here, if you use
chat GPT, claude, Gemini or other AI powered chat bots,
So claude which one's claude that it's a big one.
(14:46):
I can't remember whose that is, but I always it's
always on the line. I need to try that. I try,
I try chat GPT, and I do grow, but I
haven't done the other ones anyway, It says, you're probably
I'm operating under the assumption that you're both speaking the
same language. You input English, it outputs English, except that's
a misconception. You've actually been speaking different languages. I find
this fascinating. Rather than processing text like a human, the
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chatbot turns your prompt into an embedding, a group of
numbers represented in a vector space, kind of like coordinates
on a map. But just as a map is a
representation of representation of territory, this embedding is a flattened
representation of language.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The chatbot then formulates a reply.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Making a word by word prediction based on how it
was trained to answer past inputs. It sounds like it's
thinking and talking, but it's not. So this prediction chat
the chatbot is making draws on biased training data, the
specific texts it learns from biased reinforcement learning, the feedback
it receives. Ultimately, what looks like English to you is
(15:55):
really just you know, trying to take human speech and
make it sound real. But it's using the predictions based
on all the inputs that can be flawed, which we
all need to recognize, like immediately, I think it's too
late already. But the examples they give in here about
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how we're starting to talk like chat GPT, which again
I don't think is happening. Chat GPT uses the word
delve at higher rates than people use when writing or
speaking English, according to a study.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And well we should examine, come a further study, come
a look more into that. But now people.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Are starting to use it more often, according to this
researcher in articles and speech, because chat GPT used it
more often. So it's pushing the way we talk more
towards the way it talks. And the checkers say that
delve has become more common in speech since chat GPT launched,
(17:02):
and delve is just one example of words that he uses.
Do you buy that at all? I just don't buy
this at all.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I don't know. I read the same piece, and it
says that part of it is that the people who
look over these systems that are like the employees of
the large language model companies, are often low wage workers
from like Nigerian Kenya, where delve is used at a
higher rate than in American or British English. I don't know.
(17:31):
I don't think how intricate, commendable and meticulous. But I
don't think I've.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Picked up any sayings or words from the chatbots that
I just find that impossible to believe. I do think
that we all need to recognize that it's all about
it predicts the next word based on all the inputs
it's been getting from all these different sources, and it's
not actually thinking, right but right, you know, especially if
you're using the audio one. It sounds like a person
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and it calls me buddy, so.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Well, and if it predicts the answer that I'm looking for, great, right,
all right, it's not thinking. It's not intelligence at all.
It's just a glorified madlib. I'm going to get very
angry next segment, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Tragedy on a Florida Turnpike.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Terrifying video shows an illegal immigrant from India, a truck
driver allegedly making a reckless U turn that caused a crash,
killing three people. That driver now facing potential deportation.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So that's sort He got a fair amount of attention
over the weekend early in the week, but as more
details come forward on this illegal who had a commercial
truck driving license, it gets more outrageous. Here's another report
from Fox News.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Following the wreck, investigators with the US DOT gave sing
an English language proficiency test. According to a DOT press release,
the driver failed the assessment, providing correct responses to just
two of twelve verbal questions and only accurately identifying one
of four highway traffic signs. Because Singh, who entered the
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US from Mexico in twenty eighteen, is an asylum seeker
from India, the DOT says Washington State violated federal guidelines
by issuing him a full term commercial driver's license in
twenty twenty three, and they believe New Mexico State police
may have failed to assess his English skills during a
roadside inspection. Additionally, the DOT says it's investigating whether California
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acted within federal guidelines when it issued sing a limited
term CDL in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So he had three states that pride themselves on being
up with illegals and sanctuaries and all that sort of
stuff that helped this guy have a commercial driver's license
be behind the wheel of a giant semi truck when
he can't not only can he not read or speak English,
but he can't even identify me. Because traffic signs are
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shapes and colors that you don't even need to be
able to read that they're usually pictures. He couldn't identify those.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He couldn't. He got one out of four.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
There are no standards, no, no yet. Well clearly, yeah,
just pretty much anybody who could fog a mirror, who
wanted to drive a semi truck could in California, Washington,
and then you could hang onto your license in New Mexico.
Let's hear from the Attorney General of Florida as he's
been The crash happened in Florida, so they've been looking
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into this guy's background.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, it's a horrific situation.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
California should not have provided this person the driver's license
and a permit not just for a car, but to
drive large scale trucks to then drive into Florida, engage
in this dangerous behavior and take the lives of three
others as really a tragedy. We're not going to deport
or let this guy out of our sights until we
have convicted him and ensured that he is behind bars
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for as long as possible, likely the rest of his
life life. Only then will we hand him over to
Ice for deportation. But he's going to serve his time.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, and you know, whatever the penalty is for killing
those people the way he did is you know, that's
that part of the story. But the important part of
the story for us, obviously is what what the hell
is the ideology behind we're going to give illegals licenses
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to drive semi trucks without them having the skills.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I mean, what is that ideology? What do you think
you're accomplishing. I just think it's the sanctuary ideology, which
is insane and just counter to all, you know, reasonableness.
We're just going to ignore laws and let people into
the country of willy nilly combined with desperate need for truckers.
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I think Gavy Knewsome probably had you know, various companies
saying look, we really need guys. You got to just
let these people get their licenses. I got this note
from Aleen anonymous.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well, and then he got the whole problem. We need
guys at the wage we're willing to pay because there
are legals we're willing to hire, which drives down wages.
So you wouldn't be hiring people who can speak English
and read traffic signs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh yeah, I wasn't defending it by any stretch, but
that's an excellent point. Got this note from Alien Anymous
worked on the Santa Rosa, California wildfire cleanup. Talked to
a bunch of truckers, and these guys are haul and
logs on mountain roads, and they said the young drivers frequently.
They all had stories about the dangers of the young
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truck drivers on these mountain roads because they're bad. And
they said the young drivers frequently spoke little to no
English and had limited to no training. That's crazy. Yeah,
And this is just this one, you know, unintentionally murderous
jackass in Florida.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
This reminds me of the homeless situation. And we talk
about a lot where like homest people can do all
kinds of things that you can't do They can have
an open container in the park, you can't. They can
let their dogs run around off leash, you can't. You
need to have your dog on leash and then show
your you know that, make sure your dog is registered
or you're gonna get a ticket.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Sure. And it's the same with like, if you're.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
A citizen following the law, you have to do all
kinds of things to get this license or that license,
and if you get caught without it, you're gonna be
in all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But if you're illegal, everything goes. You can do anything
you want.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, that's an insane way nutty way to craft society.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And it's yet another example of and we've talked about this.
I think it was our two of the show, The
Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters. The New York Times with
a big couple of features today on how people are
leaving the Democratic Party in drove in droves, and part
of that is what we've been talking about lately, the
(23:55):
preference cascade, where people are realizing, Yeah, I thought all
this stuff was crazy, but nobody was saying anything, so
I thought maybe I was the crazy one, but no,
we shouldn't have people sneaking into the country and driving
trucks without any sort of training. That's insane. And so
I think those who promote and defend these policies, which
(24:16):
are insane, are increasingly isolated, and thank goodness for it.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I'm trying to figure out because I haven't seen this
story anywhere but Fox and the New York Post?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Have you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Not that I recall.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So that's part of the problem is that sure, people
who already think the sanctuary thing is ridiculous, people who
watch Fox and read the New York Post, Uh, you
don't need to convince them. And then the rest of
the country won't hear the story because it's not convenient,
or it will seem race science or something right.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And you know, there are a couple other stories that
are fairly similar to the Denver Gang investigation nine month
operation targeting Trendy ar Agua. These guys are involved in
drugs and human trafficking and murder for hire and all
sorts of different stuff, and the progressive powers that be
was it?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
J D. E.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Vance was talking to Martha Raddits was it about this
apartment complex being taken over? And what she says something
the effective, Well, it's just one apartment complex taken over
by a dangerous foreign gang. You got. The mayor of
Boston yesterday was out and proud talking about, you know,
how how proud they are to be a sanctuary city
and they're not changing a damn thing. And I guess
(25:32):
she's got good poll numbers on that in Boston. But man,
that philosophy is people are fleeing from it because it's nuts.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
How can you have truck drivers who don't speak a
word of English? How does that work with in the
way stations and loading and unloading and everything else. You
have to have people you're less than fifty to fifty
on knowing what road signs are. So Gavin Newsom's pushback
was that this guy had obtained a work work permit
while Trump was president. Okay, well, when or where or
(26:05):
if he got a work permit is not as important
to me as how the hell did you give him
a commercial driver's license when he can't read the signs?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, and then the Trump administration shot back, no, we didn't.
We turned him down. He got it the next year
when Biden was in office. So nice, ploy Gavy.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So he got three sanctuary states New Mexico, California, Washington
involved in this story. That is just the most insane policy.
I don't know if I can think of one that
could beat that. The whole sanctuary thing is flat crazy.
Of course, I also don't understand how our system hasn't
taken care of this yet, how it hasn't reached the
Supreme Court in some version where they finally shut it
(26:44):
down and say no, the sanctuary thing is, that's not
a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You can't do that, just like you can't do it
with gun laws or anything else. Well, ending our roundup
of progressive states, Oregon is just proudly announced it's thirty
seventh LAFT suit of the Trump administration this week. They've
already filed thirty six. They added a thirty seventh. Now
(27:09):
it's nearly six times as many as the state filed
during his first year of his initial term of twenty seventeen.
Let's see. This one would challenge its threat to hold
withhold federal funds to support victims and survivors of crime
from states that refuse to assist with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Ah okay, so if you're a sanctuary state, you don't
(27:31):
get crime money.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Keep riding that Democratic Party, keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Thirty seven lawsuits, that's plenty.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
As such a frustrating story. And you know, I don't
even have a imagine the relatives of the family killed
in the mini van when this guy made his I
legal return. You're telling me that guy that great big
semi truck can't read road signs, and he's here illegally.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And two different states give him licenses, and.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Then when he gets caught in another state and they
find out, wait a second, you got a license.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
With the kind of license you got, you need to
be able to read.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
English, and you can't.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
They didn't do anything well, and you know, not to
turn everybody bitter and angry, but this really it's even
more insidious than it seems, because the rest of us
are told, but you have to follow the law, and
you have to pay your taxes, and we will bust
you or find you, or take away your business license
(28:37):
or whatever if we find you in the slightest violation
of our zillions of different rules. But these people know
it's fine. They can do whatever they want. It makes
people cynical and angry.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Before we take a break, I finally have my sailing
lessons this weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh good, A.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Phrase I never thought I would say. It is a tiny,
little man made lake in my neighborhood with these little,
tiny sailboats, and I'm probably gonna be out there with children.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I don't know who else is going to be taking lessons.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Pretty funny, though.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, I'm kind of jealous. Though I've never really sailed.
I have a friend who's been crazy into it since
he was a kid. Now his kids do it.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know that I'll be able to say that
I have sailed even after I've take these lessons. I mean,
I suppose I can say it, but I get a certificate.
It's two hours on Saturday from noon to two, and
then two hours on Sunday from noon to two, and
then I get a certificate, and I don't know what
the certificates is going to say or what it qualifies.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So the state of California to get you a commercial
boat captain's license.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Probably I can probably drive one of those great big
tankers to China full of cargo containers.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Or a ferry with hundreds of souls aboard around San
Francisco Bay, for instance. But as I've said.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mean, I haven't even taken the ridiculously short four
hour course on the tiny little sailboat and made lake yet,
but I've already started shopping for sailboats. I got my plans.
I mean, I'm going big, of course I am. That's
the way you gotta do, right, got to get the
captain's hat. Well, you got to get the outfit. Of course,
I have to get the outfit. But then you know,
I'll be sailing around the world.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Say yeah, NonStop to Tokyo, you know something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
My biggest problem with the idea of actual boating is
I get see six so damn easy at this point
in my life. Motion sickness. Oh try uh dramamine or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Boning, go with boning. Boning is better than boning. Yeah,
it makes you less drowsy. So we've been the Getty household.
We've sworn by it for years and years and years.
Many a whale watch and other aquatic voyage boning.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yep, and you've never chundered.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Uh no, no. In fact, I took it a little
late for one whale watching trip with the kids years
and years ago, and we started out on some really
choppy seas, and I felt some nausea coming on strong,
and then the drug kicked in and it was like, nope,
you're fine. Oh wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I read, I read. I read a whole bunch of
books about sailing around the world because I was obsessed
with it for a while. And uh. In one of
the books, this father and son they sailed around the
world just to them, which would be a really cool activity,
but they would talk about how when they would set
off from any port, it'd be several days of vomiting
before they got their sea legs as they call it,
and your body adjusts to it, and then the vomitings
(31:32):
are I can't imagine doing a couple of days of
leaning over the railing vomiting until your body adjusts.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That sounds I just don't can't imagine doing that, trying
to stay hydrated and everything. Is that what people really
did prior to boning coming on the market. Probably that's
what getting your sea legs means.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
If you didn't know that, you just you throw up
until your body decides, Okay, I guess this is what
we're doing. It gives up.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Got that sounds horrific.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Wow, Anyway, I'll let you know how it goes. On Monday.
I'm gonna really talk a lot about you know, we
men of the sea.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So you'll be here. How about that one? I'm expecting
you like Churchill rum sodomy in the lash. That's what
keeps order above a board years sail boat.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
My parents supposed to get here. I overnighted it from Amazon.
My parent's supposed to get here on Friday afternoon. So
have that on my shoulder. That will be a good start.
Mail order parrots.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
More on the way.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Stay here, you're trustpassing.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
We gotta leave now. Number one, you're not gonna arrest us.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Number two, we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I'm an aging. I'm an aging. Good for you.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Put your hands off. I'm a ag.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What's going on there?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh my gosh, that's a couple of drunk hot chicks,
one of whom is a special Assistant Attorney General in
the State of Rhode Island, at a restaurant that they
were asked to leave and they wouldn't and were mouthy
and and loud? How how how how honorably abusive?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
How annoying do you have to be as hot chicks
to get kicked out of a restaurant because you're drunk pretty.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Damn and so the cops you can hear them. Look,
you gotta go all right now, you can't. You can't
arrest me. I'm an ag. And at one point, the
one chick says, uh, I want you to turn your
body cam off. Protocol is that you turn it off.
It's a citizen request that you turn it off. A
thing there. And you know what's funny is a great
(33:57):
deal is being made of her being or any an
AG or assistant AG or whatever she was. But it's drunk,
mouthy hot chicks who don't like being told what to do.
You gonna regret this. I'm an ag.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
God, I'm glad I never did that. I think it's
got to be in your personality. Though I would never
it's just so not.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What I would do. And I like, Michael, run that
again real quickly because I want to draw attention to
my favorite exchange.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Your trustpassor we gotta leave now.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You go ahead, turn it off. You're trespassing. You need
to leave. You haven't noticified us that you were trespassing.
What did I just say to you? Shut your pie hole,
you mouthy wench.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
So I want to get these uh this story on
while we're still on in uh Los.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Angeles and'sah And then of course you tried to kick
out the police car at least cart door while she
was inside the which is a great way to prove
that you were not in this sort of person that
needs to be arrested. Right, You're not the a hole
in this situation.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You're not out of control. I'll show you how not
out of control I am by kicking the windows out
of the car. I want to get this story on
for all of our California stations or the rest of
the country who might ever think about being like California,
Please don't. This is from the executive chairman of bed
Bath and Beyond put out a statement we are not
(35:36):
going to open or operate retail stores in California. This
is from bed Bath and Beyond. They have bed Bath beyonds.
Are they going to close them? Or I don't quite
get that. I guess some new ones. The decision isn't
about politics, it's about reality. California has created one of
the most overregulated, expensive and risky environments for businesses in America.
It's a system that makes it harder to employ people,
(35:57):
harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value
to customers. The result higher taxes, hire fees, higher wages
that many businesses simply can't sustain, and endless regulations that
strangle growth. It goes on and on and on at
bed Bath and beyond our responsibilities to our customers and
our shareholders.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
We'll no longer have stoes in California and lots and
lots of crime. You too can have this vote. Gavin
Newsom in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
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