June 19, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The plan for Iran & Trump's decision
- When the S hits the fan
- Married without consent & other headlines!
- Jack's parking debacle & sports news
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
and Jackie and he Armstrong and Jetty, they should have left.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They should have made the deal. I had a great
deal for them. They should have made that deal. Sixty
days we talked about it, and in the end they
decided not to do it. And now they wish they
did it, and they want to meet. But it's a
little late to meet. But they want to meet, and
they want to come to the White House. So even
come to the White House. So we'll see. I may
do that.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So Trump asked, over and over again. He kept saying,
no matter what the question was, pretty much yesterday, whether
he was on the White House lawn or in the
Oval office behind the desk, that Iran can't have a
nuclear weapon, saying it for twenty years, Ran cannot have
a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Here's a little more Trump, he.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Says them on Iran, if regime change does happen there,
if the regime fools, do you have a plan for
what you think would happen, plan for.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Everything, But we'll see what happens here kind of ways
to go they should have made that dea in sixty days.
We talked about it and in the end they decided
not to do it, and now they wish they did it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, on all the headlines yesterday where Trump has signed
off on the plan to attack the nuclear facility but
hasn't decided when yet.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Did you see the denial from the mullas might have
been even the head guy that they were willing to
talk and go to the White House. He said, we'll
never crawl to the gates of the White House for
mercy or donag or whatever. Eating with them scumbags. You
can nied it up and down, but he probably has to.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, there seems like the negotiating daser passed us. Uh right,
I don't I don't know if I don't know if
they could pull the plug at this point, man, it
would take an extraordinary statement.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I want to read this book when it comes out,
But I could easily believe behind the scenes, the powers
that be in Tehran made that overture to Trump, believing
it would be top secret, and then Trump waved their
uh you know, you know, waved it in their faces. Yeah,
you're begging me, you want to come to the White House,
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and they're freaking out. They're thinking, no, no, no, this
has got to be secret or will lose the support
of our ultra conservative supporters. And Trump may well be thinking, yeah,
I don't care. That sounds like a you problem. This
is all going to be out in the open now.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah. I don't remember if I asked this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Do you think we we or Israel actually does know
where the eyetola is, like, has his location?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It's entirely possible.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Wow, that'd be something.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Do we have a source in the Palace guard or
whatever the formal term is for that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I was listened to a great interview yesterday with what
let me find his name, because I'm a fan.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I've been a fan of his for years, Ken Pollack.
He was in.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
CIA, NSA, all those different kind of things in different administrations,
and I've been reading this stuff and watching m be
interviewed for years in a variety of topics. And he
confirmed when I asked that, Yeah, there almost has to
be a fair amount of human intelligence in Iran for
Israel to have pulled off what they've pulled off.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So they have.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Iranians who have turned because they don't like the regime,
or they're just getting paid off, or any of the
reasons anybody ever turns on their own country.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Maybe my sister got beat to death in the jail
for showing your hair on the street.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan, right, So, and you
know who how close that human intelligence is to the Iyatola?
And could you know nail down where he is? We
don't know. But he made the point that the reason
we don't want to kill the Ayatola is we have
been in a unique position for a lot of years
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to where we're pretty much the only country in the
world that has the technology to just snuff people anywhere
on the planet when we decide we need.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
To, and then we do.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And you know, sometimes you and gets unhappy about it,
or some countries make some noise, But Dan, whatever, what
are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We're the United States.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Soon, like very soon, lots of countries are going to
have the technology to be able to strike somebody anywhere
on the planet with a swarm of drones or whatever,
and normalizing that is not going to be to our
benefit when all of a sudden, and he used the
example Pete Heggzeth is walking out of a restaurant and
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get hit with a couple of drones and take it out,
and China says, well we had to because of blah
blah blah, and the world gets mad about it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
But what are you gonna do? The United States has
been doing it for years.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh boy, and then never ending tit for tat assassinations, right,
Doc Syndrone, Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I'm not against any of this, but we have been
in a unique situation where you know, I never can
pronounce his right name, right, Solomani, the the Iranian general.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We just take him out. He's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
The other the reason other countries don't do that, they can't.
They just have never they haven't been able to.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, we're very very restrained about it, Yes we are,
but it's still a heck of a thing. Imagine living
in a country where somebody just all of a sudden
can get vaporized by China or Russia or North Korea
or whoever thinks that they're evil. Yikes, And then you
got the murders of those poor legislators in Minneapolis. Who's
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to say, or Minnesota, who's to say? It will just
be malevolent foreign actors that'll, you know, hop on the
I don't like him. I'm gonna rub him out train.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah so, I don't know if I believe that or
not in this case, that that's a good reason to
not take out the iyatola or if any that's on
anybody's mind.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But man, every day I'm reconvinced that the Internet and
AI is like handing a chimp.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Or loaded revolver. That'd be a bad, bad idea. That
seems like a bad idea. I mean, I haven't realized
my point. I haven't thought about it for more than
a couple of seconds. But a chill advise that I'm
thinking it through. Yeah, yeah, you could get unforeseen consequences
out of that.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
A chimp with a loaded revolver.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And maybe a machine gun would be a more apt metaphor, honestly,
given the amount of damage that could be done quickly.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So Trump said, he said he's going to make his
decision at the last second. He said, because things can
change when it comes to war. You know, you got
to wait till the last moment to make the decision.
I don't have any idea if it's gonna he at
some point you said yesterday, you know, could be soon,
could be a week, maybe sooner.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
For some reason, I was pictured sooner than a week,
just based on the fact that we closed the embassy
in Tel Aviv for the next three days, you know,
all the big meetings they've been having, that sort of thing.
I just I've been assuming it's going to happen like
the day or tomorrow. That hint from the Israeli ambassador
that you're going to see something on Thursday or Friday
that makes the pager attack look like nothing. That's gotta
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be an overstatement, doesn't It almost has to be.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't sell the Israeli short.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So every expert that I've listened to on a podcast
or interview says this, The Israelis have to have something
up their sleeve to deal with Fidah. There's no way
they went into this without the ability to take out
Fordoh and just counting on the fact that the United
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States would do it for him.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
There's just no way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
They had to have some plan to you know, destroy
it with a computer virus or get you know, commandos
in there or something.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
There's got to be something going on there.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
So that's what we're probably going to see in the
next couple of days or a week.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, but I could see, you know, both kind of
sort of being true in that an enormously expensive and
in terms of Live's commando attack, special forces attack, I
mean lots of boots on the ground over rights and
in that period of time that was so costly. Oh yeah, yeah,
you could lose a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But in so you would be hope in the US
would step in Israel's mind, it would be worth it.
But yeah, if the United States says we'll vomit for you,
then you don't have.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
To do that, right, I guess is your point.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Let's listen to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. We've had him
on the show, kind of interested in what he has
to say. Clip sixty five.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
There, Michael, keep in mind, this isn't just one facility
the Iranian regime had spread. It just be portion across
the country and specifically five separate locations, and we know
where those locations are. We have pretty good intel. The
Israelis have also shared intel with US, and so if
there's a reason for US to make sure that they
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can never achieve a nuclear weapon, then that is in
the United States interest.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So if you're old enough to have lived through the
whole build up to the Iraq war.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
He is still smart a little bit from the whole.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
We have solid evidence mobile chemical labs moving around the
country making you know, all kinds of disastrous gases, and
none of that turned out to be true. But the
Senator goes on here with the intelligence saying.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
The US intelligence community is saying that Iran is close.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I'm saying the assets that we have now, the information
we're receiving that we're using with our partners in Israel,
and the information we're receiving from the intelligence community is
that they are very close. In March, the different the
information was quite different. But who told the information has changed?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Who told you that about the intelligence community? Because just
the ranking Democrat on this ended Intelligence Committe, Mark Warner,
said that his understanding was that the intelligence community's assessment
was still today what Telsey Gabberd said, and Mark, well,
I will tell you, and I can't. I've got to
walk careful to how far I can go with this,
because obviously, if I'm getting read in on programs, or
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if we're getting briefed in a in a classified briefing,
there's very little information I can actually come out.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I'm tony.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
The information that we've received will tell you that they
are very, very close to it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Do you have concern about this, that it's being overstated
how close they are to a nuclear weapon?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And then I've got a response.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not a lot, just because I've been following the various
estimates and projections through the years and the full range
of them, from the very hawkish to the dubvish, and
this does not seem It's like, you know, a poll
comes out that's an outlier that you're like, wait a minute,
how does Trump all of a sudden, I have a
thirty eight percent approval rating? Is it fifty two last week?
(11:05):
And every other pole. This does not strike me as
an outliner an outlier. Given everything that's happened, it seems
like a logical point to have progressed too. Yeah, I
have one more point I want to make about China.
But if you're driving towards something, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So my thinking is it might be being overstated. Now
in Brimmer, among other people think that Bebe's doing this
for political reasons, over emphasizing how close Iran is to
get in a nuclear repon Bill Clinton, said it on
The Daily Show Tuesday night, made no news. I didn't
hear about it till today, So that shows you how
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much people respect Bill Clinton's opinion.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
At this point, I kind of feel like, but.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
My belief is yet it might be overstated. Maybe they
aren't days away from a nuclear repid, maybe it's longer.
What difference does it make. Ted Cruise's point to Tucker
on that contentious interview was there is no disagreement anywhere
in the world that Iran is trying to get a
nuclear weapon and going as fast as they can. There's
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never going to be a better time to take that
program out. So whether they're a week away or six
months away, since that's their intention and it's only going
to get harder six months from now, why the hell
wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Do it now? That's where I right, Well, we need
to take a break. And so my point about China,
which believe it or not, is tied into this, will
firmly establish my credentials as a cold warrior lunatic. But
I think it's it's indisputably true, and I'm going to
tell you though you don't hear it anywhere else. Plus
(12:42):
to your point, the famous Tulsea Gabbert. Iran is not
building a nuclear weapon. That was half of her statement
that day in Marsh. I don't know that we're going
to play the other half as well.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
The Lakers got sold the most viable sports franchise in
America or the world.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Pretty billion bucks, pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We'll talk a little bit about that, among other things
on the waist to here.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Keep in mind, this isn't just one facility. The Iranian
regime has spread it just proportionately across the country and
specifically five separate locations, and we know where those locations are.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We have pretty good intel.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The Israelis have also shared intel with us, and so
if there's a reason for us to make sure that
they can never achieve a nuclear weapon, then that is
in the United States interest.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So I've been reading about Israel's many year long effort
to somehow prevent Iran from getting a nuke, having you know,
the Iranians having vowed deathed Israel about a zillion times,
and part of that has been identifying like Mark Wayne Mullen,
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their senator from Oklahoma, is talking about five significant nuclear
facilities across the country, and is the Israelis have not
only identified those five facilities, but like all the ancillary facilities,
the support facilities, that sort of thing. And they've also
identified who runs them, and who are the project managers,
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and who are the scientists in charge of X, Y
and Z. That's how some of them have met their
unfortunate ends recently and years ago. And they've been doing
this over the course of many, many years, not knowing
exactly when and how they would use that information. If
you don't think that's precisely what China is doing right
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now to us, I was going to say, you're a fool,
but maybe you're just busy with your job and don't
spend a lot of time thinking about it. So, but
that is unquestionably what China is doing right now to
the United States. Why do I care that they collect
all my data through TikTok and blah blah blah. You know,
maybe it doesn't matter for you, but they are to
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understand who everybody is, what they do, and how they
can be exploited for the communist Chinese game mm same
way the Israelis do. And if the poo ever hits
the fan, there are gonna be a lot of people
running around saying Oh my god, Oh my god, how
did this happen? Jack? I know, go ahead, you're gonna
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make a point.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
When the S hits the fan? Where does that expression
come from?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Anybody?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
And know it's a great question.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I'm gonna ask while you're talking chat GPT and find
out because I am curious.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I think Katie may be on the task. Yeah, Katie's
on it.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Because I can't say the word, so I got to
turn off my microphone to say it to chat GPT
in like you're there in a cattle yard and indoor
cattle facility, and he got big old fans, exhaust, fans run,
and sometimes the cows turn their line in.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I got the answer, Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
When the S hits the fan is a colorful idiom,
meaning a situation suddenly comes chaotic, problematic, or disastrous. We
knew that, yes, usually because a hidden issue is exposed
or something goes terribly wrong. It likely dates back to
the early twentieth century, first appearing in print around the
nineteen thirties. UH The literal image feces hitting a spinning
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fan and splattering everywhere because is meant to convey a sudden,
uncontrollable mess. Once something bad is let loose, with the
earliest printed version seemed to be from the nineteen thirty
nine novel Singing the Blues by Hal Dobie, in which
he uses the phrase then the ess hit the fan.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That was pretty clever, a little expression. Wow, it caught
on like Shakespeare invented a lot of expressions we still
use today. But way to go Harold Dobie.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Similar phrases all hell broke loose, the wheels came off,
it blew up in their faces.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Favorite use of the term in Warren Zevan's Lawyer's Guns
and Money.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
By the way, chat GBT is amazing. It's so much
better than googling something. If you want an answer. Much
on the way. If you missed a segment, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I was talking to the lieutenant. I said, I don't
think in twenty three years, I've ever heard of anybody
who managed somehow to get married to someone who wasn't
present for a ceremony. I've talked to the victim and
he's going through a significant process to try to have
to fix this.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
At this point, someone who got married to someone who
wasn't present at the ceremony.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What does that mean a thirty six year old woman
is being held on felony stalking charges in any bizarre case,
she's in jail. Yeah. Where a wedding was held without
the groom present and without his knowledge, well you can
call it a wedding. Isn't that like saying I held
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a horse race without a horse being present or the
horse is.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Not I had if there was no hearses racing. I
had a birthday party for somebody that doesn't like me anymore,
and they weren't there, all right, Well anyway, right, I
can have a birthday party for somebody seeing happy birthday,
get a cake, wear a little hat, but if they're
not there, I'm not sure it makes any difference.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So the chief of police there in Beverly Hills, Texas,
said his office was contacted by a forty two year
old fellow who said he found a package from his
ex girlfriend at his home, which included a copy of
a marriage certificate showing that he was married even though
he didn't marry her and thinks she's a nut job.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
So she did she falsefy his name or something?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Well, the cop says, at first we were really considering
that it maybe some forged documents. However, once we made
contact with the reverend who ended up signing the actual
ceremonies showing that they were unified, he basically, you know,
solidified the fact that, yeah, the groom was not present
when that occurred.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You know, Joe and I learned this when we were
we and we've conducted a couple of weddings, been the officiant,
and we got our minister license online from the church.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And you look confused there, Kittie.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We got our minister license online from the Church Universal Life.
And then so Joe and I were ministers and we
did a couple of weddings and they were actually married,
because who officiates your wedding has nothing to do with it.
It's the wedding license you get at the courthouse and
people signing off on that. That's what makes you legally married, not.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And the officiant signs it saying yeah, the two were there.
They exchallenged these vows. They're doing it willingly. And here's
their first, middle and last names.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
But the minister or the disc jockeys or whoever who
say I do I now pronounce you man and wife
is not the legal thing there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Let's see. Chief Martin explained how this situation has been
a rare occurrence and how they've been handling it. He's
been going through the Family Code looking at sections on marriage.
There was only one caveat that I could locate, which was,
you know, active military overseas. Unable to make it, you
still had to have a proxy stand in, and that
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also has to be part of all the licensing stuff
is part of the stuff there. So the groom should
have been there. A proxy wouldn't have worked without that caveat.
So anyway, the minister ought to lose his fake internet license.
I'll tell you that anyway.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
She's a full on nut job.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, she's yeah, absolutely full Florida.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
How did you think this was gonna work? Lady?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Do you think he was gonna get the word that
you're too married and say, well, I guess I got
no choice but to move in with her and love
and cherish her for the rest of her life.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I think anybody listening or perhaps on the show, who
has unfortunately gotten intertwined with a whackadoodle and realized it
there's no reasoning necessary or that would be successful, and
if what she was thinking is probably wacked doodleish.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, and a fair amount of short term thinking yes.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, and the governed by the emotions and not the intellect.
So here are a handful of headlines all about the
world of work in the economy and that sort of thing. Uh.
They're going to all be kind of flowing in one direction.
You might notice early several of them. Microsoft plans to
cut thousands more employees companies. Layoffs are expected to start
around the start of July and will target sales and
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other departments.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Is it because of the two letter menus?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Uh? Indirectly they're continuing their costly push into a.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Two letter menuts I'm talking about of course? Is oh
I was talking about VD oh, no, no, so much
that they have to let people.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Go stop it, stop it. Uh so Uh. Latest round
layoffs come on top of the roughly six thousand rolls
the company eliminated in May across product and software developer
around the world and more to calm, companies ranging from
retail the pharmaceuticals have been drawing up plans to consolidate positions,
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looking to do more with leaner staffs and relying on
technology for additional tasks. Wow, including Amazon got a fair
amount of attention. I want to come back to them
in a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
When does this, when does this like really really start
to hit? Is like, I mean, we got a war
thing going on right now, so obscures a lot of news.
But when does this really start to hit? Is like
the drip drip drip really starts to get to people
when you're constantly hearing about big companies eliminating thousands of
positions because of AI Like it could.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Be later this summer of this fall.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I was going to say twenty twenty six or twenty
twenty seven. If I had twenty twenty eight in a pool,
I'd be pretty convinced I was going to miss out
on the money. But you know, certainly could be completely wrong.
Another headline, this one from the Wall Street Journal. Many
I'm sorry more of us are putting in extra hours
after the work day, employees days bleeding into the evening.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Data shows I am not.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Thanks to a growing load of meetings, emails, and yes,
actual work. It's easy to imagine I think a lot
of us do that. We do that. I get that
you're making light as you making your wacky.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Little jokes what you think.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
But anyway, according to Microsoft, which apparently still has a
few people to analyze this data, because they can see
when people log on all of the Microsoft products, and
they say the number of people logging on after eight
pm over the twelve months through February, we're up sixteen
percent from the year before.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Huh, So people have more work to do, or they're
more worried about getting replaced by AI or what's going on.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes, I would say yes to both. And they've also
now two people are doing the jobs of three, or
one is doing the job of two, or one is
doing the job of four, depending on industry.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You're in kidding.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
In a similar vein Americans, by the way, and poorly
by the way, because it is it's a physical Newtonian
impossibility for one person to now be doing three people's
jobs and do them as well. So poorly is how
they get done, unless you're some like state government agency
where everybody's lazy and doesn't do any work. Not really,
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one chimp could do the job before. People talking about
the real world, not the jip ran. Yeah, yeah, Americans
are side hustling like we're in a recession. Goes to
another story. The two job trend these days is about necessity,
not pursuing a passion. The share of working Americans holding
down multiple jobs rose to around five point four percent
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during the first five months of the year. We haven't
seen that since the Great Crash of eight oh nine,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hmmm, well that
probably is.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
You know what follows.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The news that we had last year in the last
six months that people have maxed up their credit cards.
You max out your credit cards and then you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Go get a side job to try to catch up
a couple of shift seven to eleven. Yeah, holding one
job at a time is on the way to becoming
antiquated or a luxury for emerging generations. I think part
of this is just that they're younger, but because it's funny,
I hadn't thought about this for years and years and years,
but we both have had side hustles early in our
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radio cars.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
When I was twenty three, shortly after I got out
of college, I had three jobs.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, I did all sorts of stuff. Anyway. Roughly
four in ten millennials and gen zers have side jobs,
according to new research by Deloitte. Again, I don't know,
I mean the rate has increased a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Actually, when you and I started working together when we
were twenty five, good lord.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I had such beautiful dreams, Katie transpirations and here you
both had great hair.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Thirty I never even did them. Thirty five years later,
were still stuck. But I had a side job then,
and you kept it. I was working on weekends at
a country bar DJing because it paid really well.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah why not?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So, yeah, it's not crazy to have a side job,
especially pre kids.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I have.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Right, Michael's on foot Finder. It's tasteful stuff, just feet
feet erotica. Yeah, it's very nice. I had a club
DJing job as well, except it was an oldies club
and they would yell at me all the time because
I liked the music from the seventies a lot better
than like the fifties and sixties do op stuff, and
I played too much of that. So yeah, oh well,
(26:48):
not cut out for the gig. The biggest companies across
America are cutting their workforces. That's another article. Yeah, that's
plenty of that. And then the real message Andy Jassey,
the Amazon on chief, the real message he's sending to
employees on AI. Amazon chief Andy Jasse had a chilling
(27:10):
message for employees this week. AI is coming for your jobs.
But things that Amazon are more nuanced than that, right,
Stan Gallagher in the Wall Street Journal. The company is
unique among its big tech peers. Amazon's business model requires
a huge number of warehouse workers and delivery drivers. Company
reported one point five to six million full time employees
(27:31):
in its last quarterly filing, nearly seven times the total
of the next largest megacap tech giant. You know, it's
kind of obvious, but I hadn't really thought about that
that Amazon, among the tech giants, has seven times the
number of employees of the other tech giants.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, that the Yeah, that should be pointed out more
often as opposed to lumping them all together.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, that's actually up forty three percent from three years ago.
Blubb blah. But it's also the lowest of that efficiency
measure of any tech company producing more than one hundred
billion dollars in sales. That's revenue per employee. So Jay
Jasse's memo likely has the aim. More tech leaders are
propagating the view that job security in the age of
(28:16):
AI means learning to use it fast. Said in Vidio's
chief executive quote, You're not going to lose your job
to an AI, but you're going to lose your job
to somebody who uses AI. Well that's a good thing
to know, man.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I had my greatest chat GPT experience yesterday. I'm looking
at buying a bicycle, like a good bike for exercise,
and I was comparing two different gear changing systems on
two different used bikes I was looking at and I
just I just thought, I just thought, it can't do this.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
This is too complicated and too obscure.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
But I just put in there this set of letters
and numbers versus this set of let of numbers, letters
and numbers for expensive gear setting chain systems for bicycles.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And it printed.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It gave me back in a second like a rundown
from all the top cycling magazines, benefits, pros, cons, how
hard to work on, what kind of.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Writing you do, and everything. And it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I mean it was absolutely amazing, something at Google could
have never ever done. And it did it instantly And
it would have taken me hours to come up with
that on my own, if it was even possible, right, Yeah,
and you can do that all the time with anything,
and so yes, it's going to eliminate a lot of jobs.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So one final note from mister Jasse There at Amazon.
He echoed that belief in a memo to workers this week,
imploring them to quote, be curious about AI. Those who
do quote will be well positioned to have high impact
and help us reinvent the company. He wrote. Yeah, By
effectively threatening a pink slip to those who don't, Jassy
at least guaranteed that the AI workshops at Amazon's offices
(29:59):
will be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I think, at the very least, if you mess around
with it like we have, like what I did last night,
you realize, okay, it can do this sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
And if I did that sort of thing, I'd.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Realize I'm gonna lose that, and it would help you
better prepare for what's coming, as opposed to you.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Know, you're just going to ignore it and hope for
the best.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I remember in my early days of employment, Gladys there,
I was a fresh faced boy, great hair. As Katie
helpfully pointed out, I didn't have great hair even when
I was younger working at an ad agency. And the
art director, who is just a gifted artist, Oh my god,
he was so good. He recognized computer graphics and computer
art coming on the scene. And he did not whine,
(30:45):
he did not moan, he did not drink himself to death.
He dove into it. He just became an enthusiast. He's
not going to lose his job to computer graphics. He's
going to lose his job to somebody who's good at
computer graphics. So maybe that's the way to approach it. Yeah,
unless you're an accountant, like at a low level accountant,
(31:05):
you're just gonna lose your job. Todai.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Nobody's going to need you ever again for anything, even
in your proson likes you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Either you're a bad person. Well, no, too far, I'm sorry,
that's too much, too much, Okay, stay with us. Did
you guys see this?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Several states just sued the company twenty three and me
to challenge its sale of more than fifteen million DNA profiles.
The profiles even includes some people in the news, and
you could tell why they don't want the info getting out.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is forty percent German and sixty
percent Golden bastl Next President Trump is one percent Irish
(31:44):
and ninety nine percent.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Nick rib.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
And Finally, Elon Musk one percent is the father there.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You don't help this.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Oh that was a pretty good premise. That was pretty
good premise for a comedy bit comedy routine. My son
and I are gonna go to the Dodgers game at
Dodger Stadium tomorrow night. And uh so, I was buying
tickets on stubub and a parking pass thing came up
them working my way toward the Lakers because the same
guy that owns the Dodgers now owns.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
The Lakers and one of the biggest deals ever. More
on that in a second.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But parking pass, do you spend seventy six dollars from
pretty close parking pass which they call the best value
on stubub, But seventy six dollars is a lot?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Or do you spend nineteen dollars, which is the cheapest
parking pass? But it's a thirty five minute walk? Thirty
five minutes is quite a walk, perfect weather, I could
use the exercises. You can tell by looking at me, Katie. Yeah,
that's well, you walk ahead, Katie. I vote for the walk.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I don't already want it. There a mile and a half.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I don't mind the walk there.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I'm just thinking about the walk back after I've had
three chili cheese dogs and a churro and a milkshake.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
In the Denizens of the about the.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
The guys with the bicycles and the little carriages will
be out and you can take one of those back
to the car. That's not a bad idea. Yeah, I'll
go with the cheapest. Always best to go with the cheapest. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
The same guy owns the Dodgers now owns the Lakers, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Ten. He was a longtime minority owner of the Lakers,
but he bought it from the Bus family for a
little over ten billion dollars, making it the richest deal
in sports history.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Ten billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
He owns a whole bunch of different teams, A long
list of teams. I don't even know some of the
sports involved. Oh yeah, yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
He owns the Dodgers in the la WNBA team, co
owner of Chelsea and the English Premier Soccer League's also
co owner of the newly formed CALLAC Formula One team.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh okay, that's car racing there.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
You go really into the sports. I told Judy yesterday
at dinner, I saw this headline said, should have saved
dollar money and bought a sports franchise, But you would
have said no, in you buy a house. Ownership matters
in sports. Anybody who is a fan of a team
that never seems to win. So, I wonder what this
(34:18):
guy's dedication to. I mean, we've seen his dedication with
the Dodgers to put together a team that wins it all.
Is he going to do the same thing with the NBA,
where you just throw pretty much unlimited money at the
idea of let's have all the best players and freaking
win this thing. Yeah, I wonder that's many have tried
that in basketball. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, right
having an all star team essentially, I suspect you'll give
(34:41):
it a try, Yeah, give it a good try. In
other Los Angeles news, there's quite a piece in the
Wall Street Journal about how filmmaking is pretty much in
everywhere but Hollywood. It's a smallish minority of productions, sound recording,
anything that actually happens in the LA area. It's just
to expensive. If La County were a country, economy would
(35:05):
be among the world's twenty largest.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Wow, just La County.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But that economy is ailing payroll employment is one percent
lower at the end of this year than twenty nineteen.
It's up five percent for the country as a whole.
We do a lot of segments and hours.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
If you're missing, if we get the podcast Armstrong in
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
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and Jackie and he Armstrong and Jetty, they should have left.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They should have made the deal. I had a great
deal for them. They should have made that deal. Sixty
days we talked about it, and in the end they
decided not to do it. And now they wish they
did it, and they want to meet. But it's a
little late to meet. But they want to meet, and
they want to come to the White House. So even
come to the White House. So we'll see. I may
do that.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So Trump asked, over and over again. He kept saying,
no matter what the question was, pretty much yesterday, whether
he was on the White House lawn or in the
Oval office behind the desk, that Iran can't have a
nuclear weapon, saying it for twenty years, Ran cannot have
a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Here's a little more Trump, he.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Says them on Iran, if regime change does happen there,
if the regime fools, do you have a plan for
what you think would happen, plan for.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Everything, But we'll see what happens here kind of ways
to go they should have made that dea in sixty days.
We talked about it and in the end they decided
not to do it, and now they wish they did it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, on all the headlines yesterday where Trump has signed
off on the plan to attack the nuclear facility but
hasn't decided when yet.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Did you see the denial from the mullas might have
been even the head guy that they were willing to
talk and go to the White House. He said, we'll
never crawl to the gates of the White House for
mercy or donag or whatever. Eating with them scumbags. You
can nied it up and down, but he probably has to.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, there seems like the negotiating daser passed us. Uh right,
I don't I don't know if I don't know if
they could pull the plug at this point, man, it
would take an extraordinary statement.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I want to read this book when it comes out,
But I could easily believe behind the scenes, the powers
that be in Tehran made that overture to Trump, believing
it would be top secret, and then Trump waved their
uh you know, you know, waved it in their faces. Yeah,
you're begging me, you want to come to the White House,
(02:35):
and they're freaking out. They're thinking, no, no, no, this
has got to be secret or will lose the support
of our ultra conservative supporters. And Trump may well be thinking, yeah,
I don't care. That sounds like a you problem. This
is all going to be out in the open now.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah. I don't remember if I asked this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Do you think we we or Israel actually does know
where the eyetola is, like, has his location?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It's entirely possible.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Wow, that'd be something.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Do we have a source in the Palace guard or
whatever the formal term is for that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I was listened to a great interview yesterday with what
let me find his name, because I'm a fan.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I've been a fan of his for years, Ken Pollack.
He was in.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
CIA, NSA, all those different kind of things in different administrations,
and I've been reading this stuff and watching m be
interviewed for years in a variety of topics. And he
confirmed when I asked that, Yeah, there almost has to
be a fair amount of human intelligence in Iran for
Israel to have pulled off what they've pulled off.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So they have.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Iranians who have turned because they don't like the regime,
or they're just getting paid off, or any of the
reasons anybody ever turns on their own country.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Maybe my sister got beat to death in the jail
for showing your hair on the street.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan, right, So, and you
know who how close that human intelligence is to the Iyatola?
And could you know nail down where he is? We
don't know. But he made the point that the reason
we don't want to kill the Ayatola is we have
been in a unique position for a lot of years
(04:21):
to where we're pretty much the only country in the
world that has the technology to just snuff people anywhere
on the planet when we decide we need.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
To, and then we do.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And you know, sometimes you and gets unhappy about it,
or some countries make some noise, But Dan, whatever, what
are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We're the United States.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Soon, like very soon, lots of countries are going to
have the technology to be able to strike somebody anywhere
on the planet with a swarm of drones or whatever,
and normalizing that is not going to be to our
benefit when all of a sudden, and he used the
example Pete Heggzeth is walking out of a restaurant and
(04:59):
get hit with a couple of drones and take it out,
and China says, well we had to because of blah
blah blah, and the world gets mad about it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
But what are you gonna do? The United States has
been doing it for years.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh boy, and then never ending tit for tat assassinations, right,
Doc Syndrone, Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I'm not against any of this, but we have been
in a unique situation where you know, I never can
pronounce his right name, right, Solomani, the the Iranian general.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We just take him out. He's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
The other the reason other countries don't do that, they can't.
They just have never they haven't been able to.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, we're very very restrained about it, Yes we are,
but it's still a heck of a thing. Imagine living
in a country where somebody just all of a sudden
can get vaporized by China or Russia or North Korea
or whoever thinks that they're evil. Yikes, And then you
got the murders of those poor legislators in Minneapolis. Who's
(05:59):
to say, or Minnesota, who's to say? It will just
be malevolent foreign actors that'll, you know, hop on the
I don't like him. I'm gonna rub him out train.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah so, I don't know if I believe that or
not in this case, that that's a good reason to
not take out the iyatola or if any that's on
anybody's mind.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But man, every day I'm reconvinced that the Internet and
AI is like handing a chimp.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Or loaded revolver. That'd be a bad, bad idea. That
seems like a bad idea. I mean, I haven't realized
my point. I haven't thought about it for more than
a couple of seconds. But a chill advise that I'm
thinking it through. Yeah, yeah, you could get unforeseen consequences
out of that.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
A chimp with a loaded revolver.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And maybe a machine gun would be a more apt metaphor, honestly,
given the amount of damage that could be done quickly.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
So Trump said, he said he's going to make his
decision at the last second. He said, because things can
change when it comes to war. You know, you got
to wait till the last moment to make the decision.
I don't have any idea if it's gonna he at
some point you said yesterday, you know, could be soon,
could be a week, maybe sooner.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
For some reason, I was pictured sooner than a week,
just based on the fact that we closed the embassy
in Tel Aviv for the next three days, you know,
all the big meetings they've been having, that sort of thing.
I just I've been assuming it's going to happen like
the day or tomorrow. That hint from the Israeli ambassador
that you're going to see something on Thursday or Friday
that makes the pager attack look like nothing. That's gotta
(07:31):
be an overstatement, doesn't It almost has to be.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't sell the Israeli short.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So every expert that I've listened to on a podcast
or interview says this, The Israelis have to have something
up their sleeve to deal with Fidah. There's no way
they went into this without the ability to take out
Fordoh and just counting on the fact that the United
(07:58):
States would do it for him.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
There's just no way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
They had to have some plan to you know, destroy
it with a computer virus or get you know, commandos
in there or something.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
There's got to be something going on there.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
So that's what we're probably going to see in the
next couple of days or a week.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, but I could see, you know, both kind of
sort of being true in that an enormously expensive and
in terms of Live's commando attack, special forces attack, I
mean lots of boots on the ground over rights and
in that period of time that was so costly. Oh yeah, yeah,
you could lose a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But in so you would be hope in the US
would step in Israel's mind, it would be worth it.
But yeah, if the United States says we'll vomit for you,
then you don't have.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
To do that, right, I guess is your point.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Let's listen to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. We've had him
on the show, kind of interested in what he has
to say. Clip sixty five.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
There, Michael, keep in mind, this isn't just one facility
the Iranian regime had spread. It just be portion across
the country and specifically five separate locations, and we know
where those locations are. We have pretty good intel. The
Israelis have also shared intel with US, and so if
there's a reason for US to make sure that they
(09:14):
can never achieve a nuclear weapon, then that is in
the United States interest.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So if you're old enough to have lived through the
whole build up to the Iraq war.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
He is still smart a little bit from the whole.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
We have solid evidence mobile chemical labs moving around the
country making you know, all kinds of disastrous gases, and
none of that turned out to be true. But the
Senator goes on here with the intelligence saying.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
The US intelligence community is saying that Iran is close.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I'm saying the assets that we have now, the information
we're receiving that we're using with our partners in Israel,
and the information we're receiving from the intelligence community is
that they are very close. In March, the different the
information was quite different. But who told the information has changed?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Who told you that about the intelligence community? Because just
the ranking Democrat on this ended Intelligence Committe, Mark Warner,
said that his understanding was that the intelligence community's assessment
was still today what Telsey Gabberd said, and Mark, well,
I will tell you, and I can't. I've got to
walk careful to how far I can go with this,
because obviously, if I'm getting read in on programs, or
(10:25):
if we're getting briefed in a in a classified briefing,
there's very little information I can actually come out.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I'm tony.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
The information that we've received will tell you that they
are very, very close to it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Do you have concern about this, that it's being overstated
how close they are to a nuclear weapon?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And then I've got a response.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not a lot, just because I've been following the various
estimates and projections through the years and the full range
of them, from the very hawkish to the dubvish, and
this does not seem It's like, you know, a poll
comes out that's an outlier that you're like, wait a minute,
how does Trump all of a sudden, I have a
thirty eight percent approval rating? Is it fifty two last week?
(11:05):
And every other pole. This does not strike me as
an outliner an outlier. Given everything that's happened, it seems
like a logical point to have progressed too. Yeah, I
have one more point I want to make about China.
But if you're driving towards something, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So my thinking is it might be being overstated. Now
in Brimmer, among other people think that Bebe's doing this
for political reasons, over emphasizing how close Iran is to
get in a nuclear repon Bill Clinton, said it on
The Daily Show Tuesday night, made no news. I didn't
hear about it till today, So that shows you how
(11:41):
much people respect Bill Clinton's opinion.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
At this point, I kind of feel like, but.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
My belief is yet it might be overstated. Maybe they
aren't days away from a nuclear repid, maybe it's longer.
What difference does it make. Ted Cruise's point to Tucker
on that contentious interview was there is no disagreement anywhere
in the world that Iran is trying to get a
nuclear weapon and going as fast as they can. There's
(12:08):
never going to be a better time to take that
program out. So whether they're a week away or six
months away, since that's their intention and it's only going
to get harder six months from now, why the hell
wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Do it now? That's where I right, Well, we need
to take a break. And so my point about China,
which believe it or not, is tied into this, will
firmly establish my credentials as a cold warrior lunatic. But
I think it's it's indisputably true, and I'm going to
tell you though you don't hear it anywhere else. Plus
(12:42):
to your point, the famous Tulsea Gabbert. Iran is not
building a nuclear weapon. That was half of her statement
that day in Marsh. I don't know that we're going
to play the other half as well.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
The Lakers got sold the most viable sports franchise in
America or the world.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Pretty billion bucks, pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We'll talk a little bit about that, among other things
on the waist to here.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Keep in mind, this isn't just one facility. The Iranian
regime has spread it just proportionately across the country and
specifically five separate locations, and we know where those locations are.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We have pretty good intel.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The Israelis have also shared intel with us, and so
if there's a reason for us to make sure that
they can never achieve a nuclear weapon, then that is
in the United States interest.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So I've been reading about Israel's many year long effort
to somehow prevent Iran from getting a nuke, having you know,
the Iranians having vowed deathed Israel about a zillion times,
and part of that has been identifying like Mark Wayne Mullen,
(13:56):
their senator from Oklahoma, is talking about five significant nuclear
facilities across the country, and is the Israelis have not
only identified those five facilities, but like all the ancillary facilities,
the support facilities, that sort of thing. And they've also
identified who runs them, and who are the project managers,
(14:16):
and who are the scientists in charge of X, Y
and Z. That's how some of them have met their
unfortunate ends recently and years ago. And they've been doing
this over the course of many, many years, not knowing
exactly when and how they would use that information. If
you don't think that's precisely what China is doing right
(14:39):
now to us, I was going to say, you're a fool,
but maybe you're just busy with your job and don't
spend a lot of time thinking about it. So, but
that is unquestionably what China is doing right now to
the United States. Why do I care that they collect
all my data through TikTok and blah blah blah. You know,
maybe it doesn't matter for you, but they are to
(15:00):
understand who everybody is, what they do, and how they
can be exploited for the communist Chinese game mm same
way the Israelis do. And if the poo ever hits
the fan, there are gonna be a lot of people
running around saying Oh my god, Oh my god, how
did this happen? Jack? I know, go ahead, you're gonna
(15:21):
make a point.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
When the S hits the fan? Where does that expression
come from?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Anybody?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
And know it's a great question.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I'm gonna ask while you're talking chat GPT and find
out because I am curious.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I think Katie may be on the task. Yeah, Katie's
on it.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Because I can't say the word, so I got to
turn off my microphone to say it to chat GPT
in like you're there in a cattle yard and indoor
cattle facility, and he got big old fans, exhaust, fans run,
and sometimes the cows turn their line in.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I got the answer, Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
When the S hits the fan is a colorful idiom,
meaning a situation suddenly comes chaotic, problematic, or disastrous. We
knew that, yes, usually because a hidden issue is exposed
or something goes terribly wrong. It likely dates back to
the early twentieth century, first appearing in print around the
nineteen thirties. UH The literal image feces hitting a spinning
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fan and splattering everywhere because is meant to convey a sudden,
uncontrollable mess. Once something bad is let loose, with the
earliest printed version seemed to be from the nineteen thirty
nine novel Singing the Blues by Hal Dobie, in which
he uses the phrase then the ess hit the fan.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That was pretty clever, a little expression. Wow, it caught
on like Shakespeare invented a lot of expressions we still
use today. But way to go Harold Dobie.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Similar phrases all hell broke loose, the wheels came off,
it blew up in their faces.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Favorite use of the term in Warren Zevan's Lawyer's Guns
and Money.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
By the way, chat GBT is amazing. It's so much
better than googling something. If you want an answer. Much
on the way. If you missed a segment, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I was talking to the lieutenant. I said, I don't
think in twenty three years, I've ever heard of anybody
who managed somehow to get married to someone who wasn't
present for a ceremony. I've talked to the victim and
he's going through a significant process to try to have
to fix this.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
At this point, someone who got married to someone who
wasn't present at the ceremony.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What does that mean a thirty six year old woman
is being held on felony stalking charges in any bizarre case,
she's in jail. Yeah. Where a wedding was held without
the groom present and without his knowledge, well you can
call it a wedding. Isn't that like saying I held
(17:56):
a horse race without a horse being present or the
horse is.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Not I had if there was no hearses racing. I
had a birthday party for somebody that doesn't like me anymore,
and they weren't there, all right, Well anyway, right, I
can have a birthday party for somebody seeing happy birthday,
get a cake, wear a little hat, but if they're
not there, I'm not sure it makes any difference.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So the chief of police there in Beverly Hills, Texas,
said his office was contacted by a forty two year
old fellow who said he found a package from his
ex girlfriend at his home, which included a copy of
a marriage certificate showing that he was married even though
he didn't marry her and thinks she's a nut job.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
So she did she falsefy his name or something?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Well, the cop says, at first we were really considering
that it maybe some forged documents. However, once we made
contact with the reverend who ended up signing the actual
ceremonies showing that they were unified, he basically, you know,
solidified the fact that, yeah, the groom was not present
when that occurred.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You know, Joe and I learned this when we were
we and we've conducted a couple of weddings, been the officiant,
and we got our minister license online from the church.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And you look confused there, Kittie.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We got our minister license online from the Church Universal Life.
And then so Joe and I were ministers and we
did a couple of weddings and they were actually married,
because who officiates your wedding has nothing to do with it.
It's the wedding license you get at the courthouse and
people signing off on that. That's what makes you legally married, not.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And the officiant signs it saying yeah, the two were there.
They exchallenged these vows. They're doing it willingly. And here's
their first, middle and last names.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
But the minister or the disc jockeys or whoever who
say I do I now pronounce you man and wife
is not the legal thing there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Let's see. Chief Martin explained how this situation has been
a rare occurrence and how they've been handling it. He's
been going through the Family Code looking at sections on marriage.
There was only one caveat that I could locate, which was,
you know, active military overseas. Unable to make it, you
still had to have a proxy stand in, and that
(20:07):
also has to be part of all the licensing stuff
is part of the stuff there. So the groom should
have been there. A proxy wouldn't have worked without that caveat.
So anyway, the minister ought to lose his fake internet license.
I'll tell you that anyway.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
She's a full on nut job.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, she's yeah, absolutely full Florida.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
How did you think this was gonna work? Lady?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Do you think he was gonna get the word that
you're too married and say, well, I guess I got
no choice but to move in with her and love
and cherish her for the rest of her life.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I think anybody listening or perhaps on the show, who
has unfortunately gotten intertwined with a whackadoodle and realized it
there's no reasoning necessary or that would be successful, and
if what she was thinking is probably wacked doodleish.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, and a fair amount of short term thinking yes.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, and the governed by the emotions and not the intellect.
So here are a handful of headlines all about the
world of work in the economy and that sort of thing. Uh.
They're going to all be kind of flowing in one direction.
You might notice early several of them. Microsoft plans to
cut thousands more employees companies. Layoffs are expected to start
around the start of July and will target sales and
(21:29):
other departments.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Is it because of the two letter menus?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Uh? Indirectly they're continuing their costly push into a.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Two letter menuts I'm talking about of course? Is oh
I was talking about VD oh, no, no, so much
that they have to let people.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Go stop it, stop it. Uh so Uh. Latest round
layoffs come on top of the roughly six thousand rolls
the company eliminated in May across product and software developer
around the world and more to calm, companies ranging from
retail the pharmaceuticals have been drawing up plans to consolidate positions,
(22:08):
looking to do more with leaner staffs and relying on
technology for additional tasks. Wow, including Amazon got a fair
amount of attention. I want to come back to them
in a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
When does this, when does this like really really start
to hit? Is like, I mean, we got a war
thing going on right now, so obscures a lot of news.
But when does this really start to hit? Is like
the drip drip drip really starts to get to people
when you're constantly hearing about big companies eliminating thousands of
positions because of AI Like it could.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Be later this summer of this fall.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I was going to say twenty twenty six or twenty
twenty seven. If I had twenty twenty eight in a pool,
I'd be pretty convinced I was going to miss out
on the money. But you know, certainly could be completely wrong.
Another headline, this one from the Wall Street Journal. Many
I'm sorry more of us are putting in extra hours
after the work day, employees days bleeding into the evening.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Data shows I am not.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Thanks to a growing load of meetings, emails, and yes,
actual work. It's easy to imagine I think a lot
of us do that. We do that. I get that
you're making light as you making your wacky.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Little jokes what you think.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
But anyway, according to Microsoft, which apparently still has a
few people to analyze this data, because they can see
when people log on all of the Microsoft products, and
they say the number of people logging on after eight
pm over the twelve months through February, we're up sixteen
percent from the year before.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Huh, So people have more work to do, or they're
more worried about getting replaced by AI or what's going on.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes, I would say yes to both. And they've also
now two people are doing the jobs of three, or
one is doing the job of two, or one is
doing the job of four, depending on industry.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You're in kidding.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
In a similar vein Americans, by the way, and poorly
by the way, because it is it's a physical Newtonian
impossibility for one person to now be doing three people's
jobs and do them as well. So poorly is how
they get done, unless you're some like state government agency
where everybody's lazy and doesn't do any work. Not really,
(24:23):
one chimp could do the job before. People talking about
the real world, not the jip ran. Yeah, yeah, Americans
are side hustling like we're in a recession. Goes to
another story. The two job trend these days is about necessity,
not pursuing a passion. The share of working Americans holding
down multiple jobs rose to around five point four percent
(24:45):
during the first five months of the year. We haven't
seen that since the Great Crash of eight oh nine,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hmmm, well that
probably is.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
You know what follows.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The news that we had last year in the last
six months that people have maxed up their credit cards.
You max out your credit cards and then you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Go get a side job to try to catch up
a couple of shift seven to eleven. Yeah, holding one
job at a time is on the way to becoming
antiquated or a luxury for emerging generations. I think part
of this is just that they're younger, but because it's funny,
I hadn't thought about this for years and years and years,
but we both have had side hustles early in our
(25:30):
radio cars.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
When I was twenty three, shortly after I got out
of college, I had three jobs.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, I did all sorts of stuff. Anyway. Roughly
four in ten millennials and gen zers have side jobs,
according to new research by Deloitte. Again, I don't know,
I mean the rate has increased a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Actually, when you and I started working together when we
were twenty five, good lord.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I had such beautiful dreams, Katie transpirations and here you
both had great hair.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Thirty I never even did them. Thirty five years later,
were still stuck. But I had a side job then,
and you kept it. I was working on weekends at
a country bar DJing because it paid really well.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah why not?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So, yeah, it's not crazy to have a side job,
especially pre kids.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I have.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Right, Michael's on foot Finder. It's tasteful stuff, just feet
feet erotica. Yeah, it's very nice. I had a club
DJing job as well, except it was an oldies club
and they would yell at me all the time because
I liked the music from the seventies a lot better
than like the fifties and sixties do op stuff, and
I played too much of that. So yeah, oh well,
(26:48):
not cut out for the gig. The biggest companies across
America are cutting their workforces. That's another article. Yeah, that's
plenty of that. And then the real message Andy Jassey,
the Amazon on chief, the real message he's sending to
employees on AI. Amazon chief Andy Jasse had a chilling
(27:10):
message for employees this week. AI is coming for your jobs.
But things that Amazon are more nuanced than that, right,
Stan Gallagher in the Wall Street Journal. The company is
unique among its big tech peers. Amazon's business model requires
a huge number of warehouse workers and delivery drivers. Company
reported one point five to six million full time employees
(27:31):
in its last quarterly filing, nearly seven times the total
of the next largest megacap tech giant. You know, it's
kind of obvious, but I hadn't really thought about that
that Amazon, among the tech giants, has seven times the
number of employees of the other tech giants.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, that the Yeah, that should be pointed out more
often as opposed to lumping them all together.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, that's actually up forty three percent from three years ago.
Blubb blah. But it's also the lowest of that efficiency
measure of any tech company producing more than one hundred
billion dollars in sales. That's revenue per employee. So Jay
Jasse's memo likely has the aim. More tech leaders are
propagating the view that job security in the age of
(28:16):
AI means learning to use it fast. Said in Vidio's
chief executive quote, You're not going to lose your job
to an AI, but you're going to lose your job
to somebody who uses AI. Well that's a good thing
to know, man.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I had my greatest chat GPT experience yesterday. I'm looking
at buying a bicycle, like a good bike for exercise,
and I was comparing two different gear changing systems on
two different used bikes I was looking at and I
just I just thought, I just thought, it can't do this.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
This is too complicated and too obscure.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
But I just put in there this set of letters
and numbers versus this set of let of numbers, letters
and numbers for expensive gear setting chain systems for bicycles.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And it printed.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It gave me back in a second like a rundown
from all the top cycling magazines, benefits, pros, cons, how
hard to work on, what kind of.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Writing you do, and everything. And it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I mean it was absolutely amazing, something at Google could
have never ever done. And it did it instantly And
it would have taken me hours to come up with
that on my own, if it was even possible, right, Yeah,
and you can do that all the time with anything,
and so yes, it's going to eliminate a lot of jobs.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So one final note from mister Jasse There at Amazon.
He echoed that belief in a memo to workers this week,
imploring them to quote, be curious about AI. Those who
do quote will be well positioned to have high impact
and help us reinvent the company. He wrote. Yeah, By
effectively threatening a pink slip to those who don't, Jassy
at least guaranteed that the AI workshops at Amazon's offices
(29:59):
will be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I think, at the very least, if you mess around
with it like we have, like what I did last night,
you realize, okay, it can do this sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
And if I did that sort of thing, I'd.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Realize I'm gonna lose that, and it would help you
better prepare for what's coming, as opposed to you.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Know, you're just going to ignore it and hope for
the best.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I remember in my early days of employment, Gladys there,
I was a fresh faced boy, great hair. As Katie
helpfully pointed out, I didn't have great hair even when
I was younger working at an ad agency. And the
art director, who is just a gifted artist, Oh my god,
he was so good. He recognized computer graphics and computer
art coming on the scene. And he did not whine,
(30:45):
he did not moan, he did not drink himself to death.
He dove into it. He just became an enthusiast. He's
not going to lose his job to computer graphics. He's
going to lose his job to somebody who's good at
computer graphics. So maybe that's the way to approach it. Yeah,
unless you're an accountant, like at a low level accountant,
(31:05):
you're just gonna lose your job. Todai.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Nobody's going to need you ever again for anything, even
in your proson likes you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Either you're a bad person. Well, no, too far, I'm sorry,
that's too much, too much, Okay, stay with us. Did
you guys see this?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Several states just sued the company twenty three and me
to challenge its sale of more than fifteen million DNA profiles.
The profiles even includes some people in the news, and
you could tell why they don't want the info getting out.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is forty percent German and sixty
percent Golden bastl Next President Trump is one percent Irish
(31:44):
and ninety nine percent.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Nick rib.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
And Finally, Elon Musk one percent is the father there.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You don't help this.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Oh that was a pretty good premise. That was pretty
good premise for a comedy bit comedy routine. My son
and I are gonna go to the Dodgers game at
Dodger Stadium tomorrow night. And uh so, I was buying
tickets on stubub and a parking pass thing came up
them working my way toward the Lakers because the same
guy that owns the Dodgers now owns.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
The Lakers and one of the biggest deals ever. More
on that in a second.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
But parking pass, do you spend seventy six dollars from
pretty close parking pass which they call the best value
on stubub, But seventy six dollars is a lot?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Or do you spend nineteen dollars, which is the cheapest
parking pass? But it's a thirty five minute walk? Thirty
five minutes is quite a walk, perfect weather, I could
use the exercises. You can tell by looking at me, Katie. Yeah,
that's well, you walk ahead, Katie. I vote for the walk.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I don't already want it. There a mile and a half.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I don't mind the walk there.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I'm just thinking about the walk back after I've had
three chili cheese dogs and a churro and a milkshake.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
In the Denizens of the about the.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
The guys with the bicycles and the little carriages will
be out and you can take one of those back
to the car. That's not a bad idea. Yeah, I'll
go with the cheapest. Always best to go with the cheapest. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
The same guy owns the Dodgers now owns the Lakers, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Ten. He was a longtime minority owner of the Lakers,
but he bought it from the Bus family for a
little over ten billion dollars, making it the richest deal
in sports history.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Ten billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
He owns a whole bunch of different teams, A long
list of teams. I don't even know some of the
sports involved. Oh yeah, yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
He owns the Dodgers in the la WNBA team, co
owner of Chelsea and the English Premier Soccer League's also
co owner of the newly formed CALLAC Formula One team.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh okay, that's car racing there.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
You go really into the sports. I told Judy yesterday
at dinner, I saw this headline said, should have saved
dollar money and bought a sports franchise, But you would
have said no, in you buy a house. Ownership matters
in sports. Anybody who is a fan of a team
that never seems to win. So, I wonder what this
(34:18):
guy's dedication to. I mean, we've seen his dedication with
the Dodgers to put together a team that wins it all.
Is he going to do the same thing with the NBA,
where you just throw pretty much unlimited money at the
idea of let's have all the best players and freaking
win this thing. Yeah, I wonder that's many have tried
that in basketball. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, right
having an all star team essentially, I suspect you'll give
(34:41):
it a try, Yeah, give it a good try. In
other Los Angeles news, there's quite a piece in the
Wall Street Journal about how filmmaking is pretty much in
everywhere but Hollywood. It's a smallish minority of productions, sound recording,
anything that actually happens in the LA area. It's just
to expensive. If La County were a country, economy would
(35:05):
be among the world's twenty largest.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Wow, just La County.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But that economy is ailing payroll employment is one percent
lower at the end of this year than twenty nineteen.
It's up five percent for the country as a whole.
We do a lot of segments and hours.
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