January 27, 2023 • 37 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features even more Chat GPT. Plus, the Florida AP History lawsuit and the body cam video from the assault on Paul Pelosi is out...and chilling.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty
show a couple more thoughts on this whole chet GPT
thing that I wanted to mention what it feels like
to me because I'm learning more about it, and I
(00:29):
don't think we are exaggerating at all the impact that
this is gonna have on planet Earth and society. You
know what it feels kind of like to me. It
feels like like March April of twenty twenty, when the
COVID was coming on and people were talking about amazing
things like closing down cities and schools and stuffing like that.
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I was thinking, Wow, is this actually gonna happen. Looks
like it's actually gonna happen. Is this real? I think
it is real. That's what it feels like to me
on the chat GPT thing, It's like, is this gonna
actually happen? But it feels kind of legatorial, and I
think it's gonna, you know, six months a year from now,
we're gonna say yeah, that was completely real when it
when it launched in November and people started really talking
about it, a lot come, you know, December, January and February.
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It was real. Yeah, the possibilities people are discussing are
so astounding and revolutionary and sudden, and it's yeah, it's
just too much to believe. I think that's true, you know,
having corresponded with a handful of people of various jobs
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and careers and that sort of thing about this lately,
who've already seen it eliminate the need for this assistant
and that clerk and the other, you know, researcher and whatever.
Just eliminating jobs wholesale in your cerebral fields. Like I
think of at least one of my kids, well, actually,
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now that I think about it, two of my kids
who make their living two of the two of Joe's
six kids irs. Joe has six children, indeed, all of
them under eight years old. It's very busy um anyway,
but two of them, the two eight year olds, I
would describe how they make their living as processing information
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in a way that makes the real decision makers be
able to do their jobs more efficiently. They're working their
way up in kind of the cerebral you know, exchanging
paper economy. They don't build houses, they don't put screws
in cars. Their jobs will be eliminated completely and in
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the blink of an eye on the one kid has
the physical aspect to what she does. So and I
don't think this company can't afford robots at this point.
But the idea that I'm gonna sit down and draw
up a plan for say, flood control for a town
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based on the topography, the rivers, their flows, it's going
to take the rain months. It's gonna take me nine months.
I'm gonna need a two million dollars to come up
with this plan exactly, and my personal share of that
in the nine months will be I'll make one hundred
and forty thousand dollars during that time. My company will
be paid r handsome. No, I'll have that for you
in three seconds. I'm done. Yeah. Well, if you didn't
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hear this, a friend of ours in a business we
won't name where you have to come up with plans
for things, said the chat GPT is already better than
three quarters of the people he knows who are in
that industry. Yeah, let me put together your needs, what's available,
the rules and regulations, the predictions for the future. And well,
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I already said rules and REGs and give you a plan. Oh,
I'm sorry, the computers already done it in the time
it took me to speak that sentence. Yipes, And there
will be for now a human being who goes over
it and says, yep, this is sound, this is good,
or up the stupid computer. Miss this stupid, stupid computer.
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But then their role is done. When do we start
getting into these conversations like one professor I was listening
to yesterday of when does it become conscious? Conscious? We don't.
We don't really understand what consciousness is or how it
develops in humans. We have the greatest computer that up
till now has ever existed, the human brain, but we
still don't fully understand what consciousness is. Why we you know,
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we don't just crunch information. We have opinions and preferences
and desires and all kinds of things that aren't fully understood.
When does chat GPT start down that road? We don't
fears and flaws. Where do the fears and flaws come from?
Is it just the fact that our computer is made of,
you know, flesh and plasma, or it just inherent and consciousness?
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Will computers be neurotic, psychotic, angry? Vengeful, can chat GPT
figure out exactly what you're needing emotionally and give you
that to make you fall in love or be a
friend or whatever, or to stand up and meet a challenge.
You don't have to listen to that damn M and
M song anymore. Your computer will tell you, Hey, look,
(05:25):
you've established your capabilities through the years. You're a madinative.
You're fun. It's going to go great. It's great. I like,
why you keep coming up. I keep coming up with
negative things and you keep coming with positive things and
give me the second. But maybe it's like the world's
greatest therapist. Well, okay, I will let you work the
consciousness desk. I am going to be working the two
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billion people out of work by a year from March desk.
Andrew Yang was absolutely correct an elon if you add
fusion power to this, that's a little distance, So maybe
we put that side for now. But if you eliminate
the need for any human being to work in any
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but the most supervisory roles in processing information which deals
which is sales in order fulfillment and customer service, and
the law and insurance and benefits and HR and payroll
and product design, and journalism and even and this part
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makes me so sad in my heart. Rewrite what's a
good example. Rewrite the song you Can't Always Get what
you Want, which, in my opinion, is the best sounding
record ever made. Rewrite those lyrics in the style of
Bob Dylan. They can do that. The churn it out
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and it may not be very good now, but give
it six months. What the frig that's a good question.
That should be the title of the book. Yes, Michael,
you have a question. Do you guys think this is
bigger than the Internet? Yeah? The the Internet is the
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is the rock path that led us to the Wizard
of Oz. I mean, this is the Wizard of Oz
as if the Wizard was a wizard and not an
old bastard behind a curtain or the It's the internal
combustion engine that led to all the things that use
that engine, right, Um, but yeah, yeah, it's And I
don't think there's even any I'm hoping I'm wrong, We're
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not wrong. It's it's just it's it's here. It's only
going to get more powerful. There's no stopping it. Oh no,
I can't. I can't imagine and I'm trying anything that
would slow that. That's why I have the same feeling
I had at the beginning of the COVID, like is
this actually happening? I guess this is actually happening. The
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one thing they're not so far, all these chat GPT
type things, is funny. Just a matter of time, right
as it analyzes everything that's considered funny and figures out
why it's funny. Sure, I can explain to you half
a dozen different forms of humor that it will comprehend
at some point that'll be slow in coming, by which
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I mean like a day and a half, right in
a comedy bit in the style of Louis c. K.
I'm sure it could come up with that if it
just analyzed all of Louis K's everything he's ever done troubling.
You know, we had a good run Homo sapiens. Yeah,
I mean compared to the dinosaurs. That's been a blink
of an eye. As Jonah Golber want to hit wonder,
as Jonah Goldberg says it's time to let the bees
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have their chance to remote planet of not the apes,
but the bees who saw it coming, I guess Jonah did, Well,
this will be interesting. I'm talking to an AI expert
tonight about this to say, look, am I out over
my skis here? How big a deal is this? But
I have a feeling I know what the answer is
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going to be. I'm going to talk to a Scotch
expert tonight and drink myself into incoherence. All right, But
first before I get onto that a Scotch expert, it's time,
it's overdue. Let's take a fond look back at the
week that was. It's cow clips of the week. And
he moved the clock forward. It is now ninety seconds
(09:26):
to midnight. You ask me a question. When I answered,
it's the answer to your question. You don't get to
determine whether I answer your question or not. Okay, thank you.
The reff The rest said later, give it to me later,
not now, scratch, not via ars in the presence of ladies.
This is the first time and sitting president has had
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a home searched by the FBI. I have no regrets.
I'm following what the lawyers have told me they want
me to do. Clearly, he's become a serial classified document hoarder.
Just fall on your sword here. We're all human and
make mistakes. Were they ever in that garage. Were they
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ever in that room? Were they ever? I mean, those
aren't ridiculous questions. Do you have any type of a
timetable as to what you might want to do? If
I knew what I was going to do, I don't
already find it. Yeah, I tell you, I heard the intro,
and there are things scientology tell us I wouldn't dream
of doing. I'm not surprised Satanism has a better image, said,
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write me an essay written in the style that combines
the King James Bible with the dow Te chain. Well
it wrote it in about three seconds. What's cool in
the jog? And that temporary demotion was taken off. What's
your reaction to this ap African American Studies ban? I
think it just simbolizes, like blatant racism. My feeling is
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they should open it the border and just let them
pour it, let everybody pour in. And then the answer,
which is, well, then there'll be all these problems. Yes,
there should be, say, fought with a shooter, wrestling the
highly modified gun away from a point a gun to him,
intimidate him, shut him, and say get the hell out here,
I'll shoot. I mean that the second amendment's becoming a
(11:15):
suicide back. The United States will be sending thirty one
Abram tanks to Ukraine. What happened is a big brigand deal.
You don't go after a crocodile with a cornstock. There's
a real isolation this winging the party. There are many
of them are turning against helping countries like Ukraine and Taiwan.
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This is a weird way to talk about how many
Americans want to make sure that our foreign policy serves
our national interest. Yeah, don't know what they came, blah
blah blah, superviser, you don't know who you're dealing with.
A yeah, right, d sick but laho's actually that's actually
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Axel Roser. That's the guy who you know sang the
song originally there Axel Rose from Guns and Roses. That's
Adam Sandler. Here you come, Taka whom do we do?
Oh boy, oh boy. I played that lady who lost
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her s with the customer service person. I played that
for my kids. They were quite shocked by that. That's right.
We have that video linked at Armstrong and getty dot com.
As I recall, yeah and some good stuff. Um he
did indeed, misplace r s. I cannot locate my defecate
at this moment um. Uh so you might not have
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recognized the story in there about Ronda Santis and his
not allowing black history to be taught in Florida schools. Thing.
We can bring you up to speed on that. If
you haven't heard it, it's it's it's the exact same
story again, just like the Don't Say Gay bill, completely
misconstrued by all of mainstream media. And if he ends
up running for president, this stuff is going to be,
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you know, looked into, and I think more of America
will figure out what tax are actually happening. Anyway, Lots
on the way to stay with us text line four
one five two nine five KFTC Armstrong and get the
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Armstrong and Getty show. He was a human panyata for
those police officers. It was an unadulterated, unabashed, NonStop beating
of this young boy for three minutes. The five police
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officers charged with murder yesterday. I haven't been following this story.
What are the details there? Joe Memphis, Tennessee, A young
black man traffic stop went awry, he tried to escape,
It got physical, and five cops, all of whom are
black men, beat him to death. He was terribly beaten
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and died. I think it was two days after being
admitted to the hospital. He was brought to the hospital
immediately after the beating, so it was not like he
went home and felt weird the next day. He was
beaten badly, and unlike a lot of these stories, I'm
not hearing the yeah, but part of it that you
often hear, he'd you know, you know, he'd just robbed
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a liquor store and beating an old man or you
know whatever. I'm not hearing that like you usually do
the pushbell, and certainly, even if he resisted arrest, you
don't get to beat him. No like that. Nope, nope,
no, No No. We're pro cop here on the Arms Show.
But we've had I don't know how many, sorry, how
many different panels where we've talked to cops or whatever,
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and it's almost universal that they say about a quarter
of us shouldn't be cops. I mean cops say that. Yeah.
So I don't know how you ended up with five
together where there wasn't somebody there who is gonna intervene
and stop it. I don't know how that whole thing
works psychologically. But anyway, we got this text, which I
thought was just interesting. Hey, Jens, I like to watch
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French versions of cops. French versions of cops. I didn't
know they had that in France. Doesn't surprise me. It's
a franchise. They let cops, but boys a bit, Boys,
what you're gonna do? They have plenty of criminals, but
it's striking to see how differently they treat citizens. They
don't immediately act like they have absolute power. They don't
immediately arrest people or throw them to the ground if
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they don't comply. They talked them. I know it's a
difficult situation, but there has to be a middle ground
for us. Our police don't have and shouldn't have, absolute power,
but they sure act like they do. I've not seen this,
so I can't, you know, verify the characterization. And I've
had some unbelievably even in the last couple of years,
fantastic interactions with cops who absolutely handled things verbally and calmly.
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But some people do have an attitude, There's no doubt
about it. Oh yeah, absolutely. Boy. The fact that it's
five guys and they're all charged with second degree murder
and other charges, all fired, all in jail, although a
couple of them have vowed to make bail. It's never
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a good idea to be a smartass with a cop
or anything like that. But I was talking to my
kids about this the other day. If you're standing in
the park at cop walks up and says what are
you doing here, you don't have to tell him. You
don't have to say anything. Nope, And I feel like
not a very let many people know that. I'm not
sure many cops know that, or maybe they do and
(16:59):
they I don't know. Yeah, at the same time, we
have rampant crime, and then when something like this happens,
good cops everywhere pull back and we get more crime.
Could it be that having good police, well trained, well selected,
well paid is a really really good idea. Right? In fact,
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it's utterly necessary. So the end, getting rid of the
bad ones is completely necessary and urgent. Yeah, and only
other cops can do that. Only other other cops large
extent involved in weeding those people up. Evil Florida Governor
Ronda Santists won't teach black history. Have you heard this story?
Stay tuned if you miss now get the podcast the
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Armstrong and Getty Show. So the Paul Pelosi video is
just released minutes ago. That's the bodycam footage of the
cops walking up to Nancy Pelosi's her and her husband
lived together their home there in San Francisco, and the
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door opening and there is a crazy guy standing there
with a hammer in his hand holding the wrist of
Paul Pelosi, and man, I just watched the video and
I got an emotional reaction out of me. My main
takeaway being a reminder of how fast things happen in
real life versus the way versus the way you picture
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them in your mind. Yeah, you know how. I had
a buddy who worked for a construction outfit and he said,
up where people would get hurt or killed on a
semi regular basis, And he said, you have in your
mind this view of something falls and you leap out
of the way. But that's not the way things happen.
They happen like that, and they're over yeah, and that's
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the way this is. They opened the door and the
cops say, hey, what's going on, Hey, drop the hammer,
and then he immediately just swings on Paul Pelosi and
they're like, holy yes, I mean, it just happens so
freaking fast, and you know, and that that snap of
a finger, Paul Pelosi's life went from well, almost alive
to almost dead that quickly. And then the police trying
to figure out what the hell is going on? Ah yeah,
(19:30):
that's crazy. Oh wow, this the audio of it is
just oof. The cops are freaked out, obviously, What the
hell is happening here? Boy? And he's eighty two years old? Yeah?
Do they have any body body cam footage of him
selling millions of dollars worth of Google stock the day
before it's announced that the Justice Department is selling Google
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Why to see that Joe Getty with the softening of
the hammer attack of an elderly man something hammer, That's
what I'm on, the Quest for Justice, the old QF
J jeez, Paul Pelosi is pretty wide eyed and looking
pretty frightened as you would be, and it turns out
obviously should have been yesh. I'm interested to see how
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Tucker Carlson and that crowd handles this video in terms
of that whole conspiracy about you know whatever, it's a
gay lover or whatever. The current the current there he
is on that sort of thing yea, God dang, it'd
be tough to be a cop. You knock on? How
many doors do you knock on, you know, on a
night and as a cop in your career, and most
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of the time it's a nothing. Every once in a
while it's kind of hairring. Then sometimes it's that, within
like two seconds opening the door, you got a man
being beaten nearly to death with a hammer. Jeez, who anyway,
have we gathered the sound yet? Hands? And I know
you have to bleep it, so that's not I'm close. Okay,
(20:56):
maybe we'll get to that next segment. Yeah, yeah, well,
speak of unholy sound. We played part of this report yesterday.
I think it's worth resetting. There's a little more information,
new information, new commentary out about the rejection in Florida
of this ap course that was allegedly advanced placement black history.
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You're already watering it down. I'll give you the headline.
Governor Rohnda Santis will not allow black history to be
taught in Florida's schools, which is especially egregious as we
head into Black History Month next week. If there's an
award for inflammatory dishonesty and a description, well, our nation's
media is just portrayed by Jack There. I wanted again
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astounding the dishonesty of the reporting on this story. It's
a wonder Republicans ever win an election when you have
professional liars from left to right. Well, that's a poorer
way to describe it, from stem to stern in our
nation's media. Let's go ahead and play that report, Michael back,
History is American history. Protest and pushback in Florida with
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a new potential legal battle over race education. I can't
believe that this is twenty twenty three and America is
talking about censoring education. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump announcing
his plan to sue Republican Governor Ronda Santis and the
state after DeSantis blocked a pilot ap African American studies
course in Florida. Not to censorship, yes, the community, DeSantis says,
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the state already teaches African American history and as opposed
to specific lessons in the curriculum, we believe in teaching
kids facts and how to think, but we don't believe
they should have an agenda imposed on them. When you
try to use black history to shoehorn in queer theory,
you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.
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What message do you feel this bend may have communicated
to your student. I think it communicates very clearly that
African American history is not as important those other history
developed by the College Board. The pilot course is currently
in sixty schools nationwide. The organization says it does not
require students to adopt a particular ideology, and after a
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feedback period, it will make appropriate revisions to the preliminary
pilot course framework. These Florida high schoolers say this is personal.
What's your reaction to this ap African American studies ban?
It's keeping African American silence. In my opinion that it was,
and I couldn't learn about my own history. I think
it just simbolizes like blatant racism. DeSantis has made education
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policy a key focus of his administration last year, controversially
signing into law restrictive legislation on race and gender. In
response to Crump's intent to sue. The Florida Department of
Education said it was a publicity stunt and that they
expect the removal of content on critical race theory, black
queer studies, intersectionality, and other topics that violate our laws.
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Florida's Department of Education and tells us they will review
the college boards revised curriculum next month. Attorney Ben Crump
says he will only file a lawsuit if de Santis
does not change his stance. Ben Crump again. First of all, boy,
I'm glad they interview interviewed those high schoolers. From the
mouths of Babes, Jack from the mouths of Babes comes irrelevant,
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stupid crap. That's why I want to know where to
find some pot or when you guys play central, I'll
ask other than that, no interest in your fourteen year
old opinion the coolest TikTok craze exactly, Um, you worry child,
go to something else. Yeah, whatever those kids said there,
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you know roughly, it just it just sounds like they
don't care about us, and it's racism, is what it is.
So I this is the third time I've heard that story.
I saw it live on NBC News and then I thought, okay,
Hanson grabbed that. We got to play down on a
show played day. So this is the third time. So
from time, it's really the journalism on this it is
just so crappy, So kudos to them for at least
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playing the clip of Ron de Santis. I mean, they
didn't go full on, didn't even give him his point
of view. But so you play Ron de Santis describing
what's happening, and then back to back with a guy
saying they won't allow black history to be taught. The
governor just said they are teaching. But you can't just
skip to somebody saying the opposite to what the governor
said without any context. You gotta at least you gotta
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have the persons say I've looked over the curriculum of
high schools, black history is not being taught or something.
Nobody offers any evidence of the fact that black history
is not being taught because there you don't have it. Well. Yeah,
In fact, the Lawn Florida is quite specific and describes
at length all of the aspects of the experience of
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black people in America that will be taught. It is
extensive and complete. There is this one ap class that's
been proposed that is so clearly a trojan horse. It's yes,
it deals with black history as it it promotes and
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teaches all these intersectional queer theory critical theory, Marxist crap,
the idea that because this one experimental, indefensible ap corse
is not going to be taught, they're trying to silence
black people who are trying to make black people invisible.
That is ridiculous and clearly easily countered. But they don't bother,
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of course, not no. NBC News did not even And
yet how much time would have taken were the school
years going on right now, so you could have easily
contacted any school into classroom, said hey, can I see
your history book for you know, sophomore year history students
and looked it over and say, oh, hey, look, here's
a couple of chapters on varieties of reconstruction or slavery
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or civil rights movement or whatever. Look it's right there
in the book. And you'd had you'd have had your answer.
But leave that out of the story. Just quote a
couple of high school kids who don't know what they're
talking about, and imply that black history is being removed.
And then KJP from the White House press room the
other day said, I don't see them eliminating art history.
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I don't see them eliminating European history. But they're eliminating
black history. That's not what happened. You just stated something
that's not true. We're the independent fact checkers that were
so busy for so long. That's unfreakin believable. Jena Goldberg
wrote a really good piece about this, responding the idea
that all we want to do is teach black history.
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It's ridiculous because the course is much more than that.
And he points out if the college board proposed a
new ap course in Jewish studies or Soviet history or
molecular gastronomy in descent has said yeah, we won't be
doing that, it would be fine to object to that decision,
but it would be a stretch to say he was
trying to erase Jewish history or and the study of
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the Bolshevik Revolution. Back to my point, I think that
there is in fact a lot of ideological indoctrination in
this African American studies framework. There's a lot of intersectionality
jargon that sets off red flags for me. It's not
all mumbo jumb or nonsense, but there's no getting around
the fact that it's full of all sorts of left
wing framings and assumptions. Seems of a piece with the
Howard Zins School of American History drown kids and reasons
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to think that they should be angry and ashamed of
their country. But let me just concede, for argument's sake
at least, that it's all valuable and important stuff, entirely
defensible on its own terms appropriate for high school students.
Let me also stipulate that in a perfect world, fluency
in black queer studies would be a meaningful part of
every high school and college education. I want to be
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clear this is not my position, but I'm open to
being persuaded. So I still have to ask, is this
really the best use of anyone's time? I mean, our
American high schools doing such a bang up job on
the stuff that everyone agrees they should be doing, teaching
basic math and science, English American history including black history,
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of course, and rudimentary civics that teachers, administrators, and students
alike have extra bandwidth to tackle this stuff, black queer
intersectional studies. The most recent report card on American education
was a disaster. And then he quotes at length colleges
and universities spend billions of dollars billions on remedial math
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and English courses intended to make up for the failure
of high schools to make students who go to college
minimally proficient. Now and then, oh, this is lengthy. His
point is they're not doing a job at all on
the basics. We need to be focusing on the basics
and making sure the kids are learning this stuff, not
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black queer intersectional theory in high school. That's an excellent point.
So even if you were to concede that, Okay, you're
right about this stuff, you can't rank it above reading, writing, arithmetic,
and our kids are failing at that. So clearly we
need to put more time into that. Right. Well, that's
something How to Republicans or conservatives ever win an election
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when people of good conscience and solid intelligence who think
they're staying informed by watching NBC News come away with
it wildly misinformed about the reality of an important story.
God help the Republic. So the video is out of
when Nancy Pelosi's husband got attacked by a hammer. We
got a little bit of the audio for you, and
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we'll finish strong next Armstrong and get the Armstrong and
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Getty show the bodycam footage of those police that have
been arrested for murder is coming out tonight. That's over Memphis.
The bodycam footage of Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, being
attacked with a hammer just came out a few minutes ago.
This is the police walking up to the door of
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the Pelosi home. And do do you think there's anything else
we need to fill in before we listen to this
minute of audio? Well, who's it looked like? Opens the door?
Paul Pelosi opened the door. It's not clear really because
he is standing right next to the assailant, both of
them holding onto a hammer, right, and both kind of
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wild eyed. Yeah, there's obviously real tension in the situation,
even though it's the assailant who answers the cops. So
what's going on here? Everything's fine? Yeah, we've cut out
the walk up, but the walk up the cops are
pretty calm and everything like that, so they weren't expecting
anything to be this crazy obviously. Anywhere here. It goes
from opening the door, I guess, Hi, how are you doing?
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All right? What's going on? Man? We go Hi dropped
the hammer? Um? Nope, Hey, hey, hey, what is going on?
I'm not getting an answer on probably what you're got
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a microp I'm doing getting Neverwardard and Everardsen backup, CO three,
give you a fan, Give me a fan for fourteen
(32:54):
never worked in Netwards and medic go three as well.
You got him. I'm not sure who's making those sounds,
if that's the hammer wielding lunatic or the elderly man
dying on the floor from having been bludgeoned with a hammer.
It turns out he didn't, but he could have. I
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tell you what we've been talking about, the good cops
and bad cops and that sort of thing. These guys
leapt to the old man's defense without hesitation against a
hammer wielding lunatic and waited right in to stop the mayhem.
Good for them, but brave men. And I was talking
earlier about how you watch it and you realize how
quickly things happen, when things happen. I mean, it's just
(33:37):
it's not I wonder if I should what's you know?
You know, there's nothing, no time whatsoever right. And when
you talk about good cops and competent cops being judged
by people who said, well, he could have thought about
this and decided to do that. These people have no
concept of how quickly things happen when they happen. Now,
we got a text from some of you said, does
(33:58):
Popolosi have a drinking his hand? And then I just
saw a tweet from someone nationally saying, Paul Pelosi still
with a drink in his hand. I didn't see that.
It looked like it doesn't look like that to me,
But I was watching on my phone on a small screen,
and even if he did, what would what's your point? Um, yeah,
(34:19):
I don't think that's what's going on there. He looks
freaking scared to death. I'll think he might have his
phone in his hand. Ah, that's what it is. I
think he has his phone in his one hand and
he's holding onto the hammer with the other guy at
the other hand. But you know he's how about that
hole dropped the hammer? Um, nope, right, and then he
and then he immediately swings what does that look like
(34:41):
to you? And looks like a drink, yeah, cup or something.
I don't know what that is. Anyway, I was about
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to say something. I'll save it from my final thought.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Admirable restraint. Jack.
Let's begin final thoughts. Now, let's get every everybody on
the crew to toss in a final thought to wrap
up the show. There he is our technical director of
Michael Angelo. Michael, keep thinking about the chat GPT. I'm
thinking you could use it to bet on sporting events,
and as far as video games go, you'll never win again.
(35:27):
If you're a regular person, You're never gonna be able
to beat that computer. M fascinating Jack a final thought
for us. I'm just looking at some of the text
and Twitter commentary on this. Now, Hey, I realized, like
Paul Pelosi names Pelosi aren't on my political team, and
but you realize, sometimes a crazy lunatic could just try
(35:48):
to kill an old man who you don't agree with politically,
and there's no really complicated conspiracy other than that. That's
the whole story. That's very very possible, you realize, right, Yeah,
I know it, I know it. My final thought is
a three time Jeopardy champion is calling racism among other
accusations toward the game. He says, Jeopardy is not the problem,
(36:10):
but it's centrality to American society is there will never
be a healthy quizzing culture in this country until we
learn to stop pretending that Jeopardy is important. When will
we have the healthy quizzing culture that we all dream of? Jack,
That'll be our topic Monday. There's never been equity between
Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, even though they're on back
(36:31):
to back all across the country. Those are two different
crowds right there. You're smarter, Breed's a dog could win it.
It's a Wheel of Fortune. Let's be honest, Armstrong, think
Yeddy rapping up another grueling excuse me, four hour work.
There so many people to thank, so little time. Go
to Armstrong and Guity dot com. We've got a lot
of great clicks for you. A book we mentioned, it's
at Armstrong and Guity dot com, an article, an interviewed.
(36:53):
The hot links are there, you can get the podcast
are fabulous. Armstrong and Getty extra Large with Ian Bremer
right there to be listened to this weekend. Who you're
rooting for this weekend? Forty nine ers? Hell yeah, buddy,
forty nine ers and chiefs for me see Monday, God
bless America. I'm Strong and Getty. I think of this
moment as a moment that is about great momentum uh okay,
(37:18):
do you understand? You know we um no signor no
signor I'm what's cold? Okay, so let's go with the buying.
Don't be scratching your nuts if you're hanging out. Hey, hey, hey,
I'm a scholar. I'm a historian. Over here, A great Friday, you,
Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty
show a couple more thoughts on this whole chet GPT
thing that I wanted to mention what it feels like
to me because I'm learning more about it, and I
(00:29):
don't think we are exaggerating at all the impact that
this is gonna have on planet Earth and society. You
know what it feels kind of like to me. It
feels like like March April of twenty twenty, when the
COVID was coming on and people were talking about amazing
things like closing down cities and schools and stuffing like that.
(00:53):
I was thinking, Wow, is this actually gonna happen. Looks
like it's actually gonna happen. Is this real? I think
it is real. That's what it feels like to me
on the chat GPT thing, It's like, is this gonna
actually happen? But it feels kind of legatorial, and I
think it's gonna, you know, six months a year from now,
we're gonna say yeah, that was completely real when it
when it launched in November and people started really talking
about it, a lot come, you know, December, January and February.
(01:16):
It was real. Yeah, the possibilities people are discussing are
so astounding and revolutionary and sudden, and it's yeah, it's
just too much to believe. I think that's true, you know,
having corresponded with a handful of people of various jobs
(01:37):
and careers and that sort of thing about this lately,
who've already seen it eliminate the need for this assistant
and that clerk and the other, you know, researcher and whatever.
Just eliminating jobs wholesale in your cerebral fields. Like I
think of at least one of my kids, well, actually,
(01:58):
now that I think about it, two of my kids
who make their living two of the two of Joe's
six kids irs. Joe has six children, indeed, all of
them under eight years old. It's very busy um anyway,
but two of them, the two eight year olds, I
would describe how they make their living as processing information
(02:25):
in a way that makes the real decision makers be
able to do their jobs more efficiently. They're working their
way up in kind of the cerebral you know, exchanging
paper economy. They don't build houses, they don't put screws
in cars. Their jobs will be eliminated completely and in
(02:47):
the blink of an eye on the one kid has
the physical aspect to what she does. So and I
don't think this company can't afford robots at this point.
But the idea that I'm gonna sit down and draw
up a plan for say, flood control for a town
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based on the topography, the rivers, their flows, it's going
to take the rain months. It's gonna take me nine months.
I'm gonna need a two million dollars to come up
with this plan exactly, and my personal share of that
in the nine months will be I'll make one hundred
and forty thousand dollars during that time. My company will
be paid r handsome. No, I'll have that for you
in three seconds. I'm done. Yeah. Well, if you didn't
(03:32):
hear this, a friend of ours in a business we
won't name where you have to come up with plans
for things, said the chat GPT is already better than
three quarters of the people he knows who are in
that industry. Yeah, let me put together your needs, what's available,
the rules and regulations, the predictions for the future. And well,
(03:54):
I already said rules and REGs and give you a plan. Oh,
I'm sorry, the computers already done it in the time
it took me to speak that sentence. Yipes, And there
will be for now a human being who goes over
it and says, yep, this is sound, this is good,
or up the stupid computer. Miss this stupid, stupid computer.
(04:17):
But then their role is done. When do we start
getting into these conversations like one professor I was listening
to yesterday of when does it become conscious? Conscious? We don't.
We don't really understand what consciousness is or how it
develops in humans. We have the greatest computer that up
till now has ever existed, the human brain, but we
still don't fully understand what consciousness is. Why we you know,
(04:39):
we don't just crunch information. We have opinions and preferences
and desires and all kinds of things that aren't fully understood.
When does chat GPT start down that road? We don't
fears and flaws. Where do the fears and flaws come from?
Is it just the fact that our computer is made of,
you know, flesh and plasma, or it just inherent and consciousness?
(05:02):
Will computers be neurotic, psychotic, angry? Vengeful, can chat GPT
figure out exactly what you're needing emotionally and give you
that to make you fall in love or be a
friend or whatever, or to stand up and meet a challenge.
You don't have to listen to that damn M and
M song anymore. Your computer will tell you, Hey, look,
(05:25):
you've established your capabilities through the years. You're a madinative.
You're fun. It's going to go great. It's great. I like,
why you keep coming up. I keep coming up with
negative things and you keep coming with positive things and
give me the second. But maybe it's like the world's
greatest therapist. Well, okay, I will let you work the
consciousness desk. I am going to be working the two
(05:46):
billion people out of work by a year from March desk.
Andrew Yang was absolutely correct an elon if you add
fusion power to this, that's a little distance, So maybe
we put that side for now. But if you eliminate
the need for any human being to work in any
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but the most supervisory roles in processing information which deals
which is sales in order fulfillment and customer service, and
the law and insurance and benefits and HR and payroll
and product design, and journalism and even and this part
(06:32):
makes me so sad in my heart. Rewrite what's a
good example. Rewrite the song you Can't Always Get what
you Want, which, in my opinion, is the best sounding
record ever made. Rewrite those lyrics in the style of
Bob Dylan. They can do that. The churn it out
(06:56):
and it may not be very good now, but give
it six months. What the frig that's a good question.
That should be the title of the book. Yes, Michael,
you have a question. Do you guys think this is
bigger than the Internet? Yeah? The the Internet is the
(07:16):
is the rock path that led us to the Wizard
of Oz. I mean, this is the Wizard of Oz
as if the Wizard was a wizard and not an
old bastard behind a curtain or the It's the internal
combustion engine that led to all the things that use
that engine, right, Um, but yeah, yeah, it's And I
don't think there's even any I'm hoping I'm wrong, We're
(07:38):
not wrong. It's it's just it's it's here. It's only
going to get more powerful. There's no stopping it. Oh no,
I can't. I can't imagine and I'm trying anything that
would slow that. That's why I have the same feeling
I had at the beginning of the COVID, like is
this actually happening? I guess this is actually happening. The
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one thing they're not so far, all these chat GPT
type things, is funny. Just a matter of time, right
as it analyzes everything that's considered funny and figures out
why it's funny. Sure, I can explain to you half
a dozen different forms of humor that it will comprehend
at some point that'll be slow in coming, by which
(08:20):
I mean like a day and a half, right in
a comedy bit in the style of Louis c. K.
I'm sure it could come up with that if it
just analyzed all of Louis K's everything he's ever done troubling.
You know, we had a good run Homo sapiens. Yeah,
I mean compared to the dinosaurs. That's been a blink
of an eye. As Jonah Golber want to hit wonder,
as Jonah Goldberg says it's time to let the bees
(08:43):
have their chance to remote planet of not the apes,
but the bees who saw it coming, I guess Jonah did, Well,
this will be interesting. I'm talking to an AI expert
tonight about this to say, look, am I out over
my skis here? How big a deal is this? But
I have a feeling I know what the answer is
(09:04):
going to be. I'm going to talk to a Scotch
expert tonight and drink myself into incoherence. All right, But
first before I get onto that a Scotch expert, it's time,
it's overdue. Let's take a fond look back at the
week that was. It's cow clips of the week. And
he moved the clock forward. It is now ninety seconds
(09:26):
to midnight. You ask me a question. When I answered,
it's the answer to your question. You don't get to
determine whether I answer your question or not. Okay, thank you.
The reff The rest said later, give it to me later,
not now, scratch, not via ars in the presence of ladies.
This is the first time and sitting president has had
(09:48):
a home searched by the FBI. I have no regrets.
I'm following what the lawyers have told me they want
me to do. Clearly, he's become a serial classified document hoarder.
Just fall on your sword here. We're all human and
make mistakes. Were they ever in that garage. Were they
(10:08):
ever in that room? Were they ever? I mean, those
aren't ridiculous questions. Do you have any type of a
timetable as to what you might want to do? If
I knew what I was going to do, I don't
already find it. Yeah, I tell you, I heard the intro,
and there are things scientology tell us I wouldn't dream
of doing. I'm not surprised Satanism has a better image, said,
(10:31):
write me an essay written in the style that combines
the King James Bible with the dow Te chain. Well
it wrote it in about three seconds. What's cool in
the jog? And that temporary demotion was taken off. What's
your reaction to this ap African American Studies ban? I
think it just simbolizes, like blatant racism. My feeling is
(10:52):
they should open it the border and just let them
pour it, let everybody pour in. And then the answer,
which is, well, then there'll be all these problems. Yes,
there should be, say, fought with a shooter, wrestling the
highly modified gun away from a point a gun to him,
intimidate him, shut him, and say get the hell out here,
I'll shoot. I mean that the second amendment's becoming a
(11:15):
suicide back. The United States will be sending thirty one
Abram tanks to Ukraine. What happened is a big brigand deal.
You don't go after a crocodile with a cornstock. There's
a real isolation this winging the party. There are many
of them are turning against helping countries like Ukraine and Taiwan.
(11:35):
This is a weird way to talk about how many
Americans want to make sure that our foreign policy serves
our national interest. Yeah, don't know what they came, blah
blah blah, superviser, you don't know who you're dealing with.
A yeah, right, d sick but laho's actually that's actually
(12:07):
Axel Roser. That's the guy who you know sang the
song originally there Axel Rose from Guns and Roses. That's
Adam Sandler. Here you come, Taka whom do we do?
Oh boy, oh boy. I played that lady who lost
(12:28):
her s with the customer service person. I played that
for my kids. They were quite shocked by that. That's right.
We have that video linked at Armstrong and getty dot com.
As I recall, yeah and some good stuff. Um he
did indeed, misplace r s. I cannot locate my defecate
at this moment um. Uh so you might not have
(12:51):
recognized the story in there about Ronda Santis and his
not allowing black history to be taught in Florida schools. Thing.
We can bring you up to speed on that. If
you haven't heard it, it's it's it's the exact same
story again, just like the Don't Say Gay bill, completely
misconstrued by all of mainstream media. And if he ends
up running for president, this stuff is going to be,
(13:13):
you know, looked into, and I think more of America
will figure out what tax are actually happening. Anyway, Lots
on the way to stay with us text line four
one five two nine five KFTC Armstrong and get the
(13:43):
Armstrong and Getty show. He was a human panyata for
those police officers. It was an unadulterated, unabashed, NonStop beating
of this young boy for three minutes. The five police
(14:09):
officers charged with murder yesterday. I haven't been following this story.
What are the details there? Joe Memphis, Tennessee, A young
black man traffic stop went awry, he tried to escape,
It got physical, and five cops, all of whom are
black men, beat him to death. He was terribly beaten
(14:30):
and died. I think it was two days after being
admitted to the hospital. He was brought to the hospital
immediately after the beating, so it was not like he
went home and felt weird the next day. He was
beaten badly, and unlike a lot of these stories, I'm
not hearing the yeah, but part of it that you
often hear, he'd you know, you know, he'd just robbed
(14:51):
a liquor store and beating an old man or you
know whatever. I'm not hearing that like you usually do
the pushbell, and certainly, even if he resisted arrest, you
don't get to beat him. No like that. Nope, nope,
no, No No. We're pro cop here on the Arms Show.
But we've had I don't know how many, sorry, how
many different panels where we've talked to cops or whatever,
(15:12):
and it's almost universal that they say about a quarter
of us shouldn't be cops. I mean cops say that. Yeah.
So I don't know how you ended up with five
together where there wasn't somebody there who is gonna intervene
and stop it. I don't know how that whole thing
works psychologically. But anyway, we got this text, which I
thought was just interesting. Hey, Jens, I like to watch
(15:32):
French versions of cops. French versions of cops. I didn't
know they had that in France. Doesn't surprise me. It's
a franchise. They let cops, but boys a bit, Boys,
what you're gonna do? They have plenty of criminals, but
it's striking to see how differently they treat citizens. They
don't immediately act like they have absolute power. They don't
immediately arrest people or throw them to the ground if
(15:53):
they don't comply. They talked them. I know it's a
difficult situation, but there has to be a middle ground
for us. Our police don't have and shouldn't have, absolute power,
but they sure act like they do. I've not seen this,
so I can't, you know, verify the characterization. And I've
had some unbelievably even in the last couple of years,
fantastic interactions with cops who absolutely handled things verbally and calmly.
(16:17):
But some people do have an attitude, There's no doubt
about it. Oh yeah, absolutely. Boy. The fact that it's
five guys and they're all charged with second degree murder
and other charges, all fired, all in jail, although a
couple of them have vowed to make bail. It's never
(16:39):
a good idea to be a smartass with a cop
or anything like that. But I was talking to my
kids about this the other day. If you're standing in
the park at cop walks up and says what are
you doing here, you don't have to tell him. You
don't have to say anything. Nope, And I feel like
not a very let many people know that. I'm not
sure many cops know that, or maybe they do and
(16:59):
they I don't know. Yeah, at the same time, we
have rampant crime, and then when something like this happens,
good cops everywhere pull back and we get more crime.
Could it be that having good police, well trained, well selected,
well paid is a really really good idea. Right? In fact,
(17:25):
it's utterly necessary. So the end, getting rid of the
bad ones is completely necessary and urgent. Yeah, and only
other cops can do that. Only other other cops large
extent involved in weeding those people up. Evil Florida Governor
Ronda Santists won't teach black history. Have you heard this story?
Stay tuned if you miss now get the podcast the
(18:02):
Armstrong and Getty Show. So the Paul Pelosi video is
just released minutes ago. That's the bodycam footage of the
cops walking up to Nancy Pelosi's her and her husband
lived together their home there in San Francisco, and the
(18:23):
door opening and there is a crazy guy standing there
with a hammer in his hand holding the wrist of
Paul Pelosi, and man, I just watched the video and
I got an emotional reaction out of me. My main
takeaway being a reminder of how fast things happen in
real life versus the way versus the way you picture
(18:44):
them in your mind. Yeah, you know how. I had
a buddy who worked for a construction outfit and he said,
up where people would get hurt or killed on a
semi regular basis, And he said, you have in your
mind this view of something falls and you leap out
of the way. But that's not the way things happen.
They happen like that, and they're over yeah, and that's
(19:06):
the way this is. They opened the door and the
cops say, hey, what's going on, Hey, drop the hammer,
and then he immediately just swings on Paul Pelosi and
they're like, holy yes, I mean, it just happens so
freaking fast, and you know, and that that snap of
a finger, Paul Pelosi's life went from well, almost alive
to almost dead that quickly. And then the police trying
to figure out what the hell is going on? Ah yeah,
(19:30):
that's crazy. Oh wow, this the audio of it is
just oof. The cops are freaked out, obviously, What the
hell is happening here? Boy? And he's eighty two years old? Yeah?
Do they have any body body cam footage of him
selling millions of dollars worth of Google stock the day
before it's announced that the Justice Department is selling Google
(19:50):
Why to see that Joe Getty with the softening of
the hammer attack of an elderly man something hammer, That's
what I'm on, the Quest for Justice, the old QF
J jeez, Paul Pelosi is pretty wide eyed and looking
pretty frightened as you would be, and it turns out
obviously should have been yesh. I'm interested to see how
(20:13):
Tucker Carlson and that crowd handles this video in terms
of that whole conspiracy about you know whatever, it's a
gay lover or whatever. The current the current there he
is on that sort of thing yea, God dang, it'd
be tough to be a cop. You knock on? How
many doors do you knock on, you know, on a
night and as a cop in your career, and most
(20:36):
of the time it's a nothing. Every once in a
while it's kind of hairring. Then sometimes it's that, within
like two seconds opening the door, you got a man
being beaten nearly to death with a hammer. Jeez, who anyway,
have we gathered the sound yet? Hands? And I know
you have to bleep it, so that's not I'm close. Okay,
(20:56):
maybe we'll get to that next segment. Yeah, yeah, well,
speak of unholy sound. We played part of this report yesterday.
I think it's worth resetting. There's a little more information,
new information, new commentary out about the rejection in Florida
of this ap course that was allegedly advanced placement black history.
(21:21):
You're already watering it down. I'll give you the headline.
Governor Rohnda Santis will not allow black history to be
taught in Florida's schools, which is especially egregious as we
head into Black History Month next week. If there's an
award for inflammatory dishonesty and a description, well, our nation's
media is just portrayed by Jack There. I wanted again
(21:43):
astounding the dishonesty of the reporting on this story. It's
a wonder Republicans ever win an election when you have
professional liars from left to right. Well, that's a poorer
way to describe it, from stem to stern in our
nation's media. Let's go ahead and play that report, Michael back,
History is American history. Protest and pushback in Florida with
(22:06):
a new potential legal battle over race education. I can't
believe that this is twenty twenty three and America is
talking about censoring education. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump announcing
his plan to sue Republican Governor Ronda Santis and the
state after DeSantis blocked a pilot ap African American studies
course in Florida. Not to censorship, yes, the community, DeSantis says,
(22:30):
the state already teaches African American history and as opposed
to specific lessons in the curriculum, we believe in teaching
kids facts and how to think, but we don't believe
they should have an agenda imposed on them. When you
try to use black history to shoehorn in queer theory,
you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.
(22:52):
What message do you feel this bend may have communicated
to your student. I think it communicates very clearly that
African American history is not as important those other history
developed by the College Board. The pilot course is currently
in sixty schools nationwide. The organization says it does not
require students to adopt a particular ideology, and after a
(23:13):
feedback period, it will make appropriate revisions to the preliminary
pilot course framework. These Florida high schoolers say this is personal.
What's your reaction to this ap African American studies ban?
It's keeping African American silence. In my opinion that it was,
and I couldn't learn about my own history. I think
it just simbolizes like blatant racism. DeSantis has made education
(23:36):
policy a key focus of his administration last year, controversially
signing into law restrictive legislation on race and gender. In
response to Crump's intent to sue. The Florida Department of
Education said it was a publicity stunt and that they
expect the removal of content on critical race theory, black
queer studies, intersectionality, and other topics that violate our laws.
(23:58):
Florida's Department of Education and tells us they will review
the college boards revised curriculum next month. Attorney Ben Crump
says he will only file a lawsuit if de Santis
does not change his stance. Ben Crump again. First of all, boy,
I'm glad they interview interviewed those high schoolers. From the
mouths of Babes, Jack from the mouths of Babes comes irrelevant,
(24:21):
stupid crap. That's why I want to know where to
find some pot or when you guys play central, I'll
ask other than that, no interest in your fourteen year
old opinion the coolest TikTok craze exactly, Um, you worry child,
go to something else. Yeah, whatever those kids said there,
(24:41):
you know roughly, it just it just sounds like they
don't care about us, and it's racism, is what it is.
So I this is the third time I've heard that story.
I saw it live on NBC News and then I thought, okay,
Hanson grabbed that. We got to play down on a
show played day. So this is the third time. So
from time, it's really the journalism on this it is
just so crappy, So kudos to them for at least
(25:05):
playing the clip of Ron de Santis. I mean, they
didn't go full on, didn't even give him his point
of view. But so you play Ron de Santis describing
what's happening, and then back to back with a guy
saying they won't allow black history to be taught. The
governor just said they are teaching. But you can't just
skip to somebody saying the opposite to what the governor
said without any context. You gotta at least you gotta
(25:28):
have the persons say I've looked over the curriculum of
high schools, black history is not being taught or something.
Nobody offers any evidence of the fact that black history
is not being taught because there you don't have it. Well. Yeah,
In fact, the Lawn Florida is quite specific and describes
at length all of the aspects of the experience of
(25:48):
black people in America that will be taught. It is
extensive and complete. There is this one ap class that's
been proposed that is so clearly a trojan horse. It's yes,
it deals with black history as it it promotes and
(26:09):
teaches all these intersectional queer theory critical theory, Marxist crap,
the idea that because this one experimental, indefensible ap corse
is not going to be taught, they're trying to silence
black people who are trying to make black people invisible.
That is ridiculous and clearly easily countered. But they don't bother,
(26:34):
of course, not no. NBC News did not even And
yet how much time would have taken were the school
years going on right now, so you could have easily
contacted any school into classroom, said hey, can I see
your history book for you know, sophomore year history students
and looked it over and say, oh, hey, look, here's
a couple of chapters on varieties of reconstruction or slavery
(26:55):
or civil rights movement or whatever. Look it's right there
in the book. And you'd had you'd have had your answer.
But leave that out of the story. Just quote a
couple of high school kids who don't know what they're
talking about, and imply that black history is being removed.
And then KJP from the White House press room the
other day said, I don't see them eliminating art history.
(27:18):
I don't see them eliminating European history. But they're eliminating
black history. That's not what happened. You just stated something
that's not true. We're the independent fact checkers that were
so busy for so long. That's unfreakin believable. Jena Goldberg
wrote a really good piece about this, responding the idea
that all we want to do is teach black history.
(27:40):
It's ridiculous because the course is much more than that.
And he points out if the college board proposed a
new ap course in Jewish studies or Soviet history or
molecular gastronomy in descent has said yeah, we won't be
doing that, it would be fine to object to that decision,
but it would be a stretch to say he was
trying to erase Jewish history or and the study of
(28:00):
the Bolshevik Revolution. Back to my point, I think that
there is in fact a lot of ideological indoctrination in
this African American studies framework. There's a lot of intersectionality
jargon that sets off red flags for me. It's not
all mumbo jumb or nonsense, but there's no getting around
the fact that it's full of all sorts of left
wing framings and assumptions. Seems of a piece with the
Howard Zins School of American History drown kids and reasons
(28:24):
to think that they should be angry and ashamed of
their country. But let me just concede, for argument's sake
at least, that it's all valuable and important stuff, entirely
defensible on its own terms appropriate for high school students.
Let me also stipulate that in a perfect world, fluency
in black queer studies would be a meaningful part of
every high school and college education. I want to be
(28:45):
clear this is not my position, but I'm open to
being persuaded. So I still have to ask, is this
really the best use of anyone's time? I mean, our
American high schools doing such a bang up job on
the stuff that everyone agrees they should be doing, teaching
basic math and science, English American history including black history,
(29:05):
of course, and rudimentary civics that teachers, administrators, and students
alike have extra bandwidth to tackle this stuff, black queer
intersectional studies. The most recent report card on American education
was a disaster. And then he quotes at length colleges
and universities spend billions of dollars billions on remedial math
(29:27):
and English courses intended to make up for the failure
of high schools to make students who go to college
minimally proficient. Now and then, oh, this is lengthy. His
point is they're not doing a job at all on
the basics. We need to be focusing on the basics
and making sure the kids are learning this stuff, not
(29:48):
black queer intersectional theory in high school. That's an excellent point.
So even if you were to concede that, Okay, you're
right about this stuff, you can't rank it above reading, writing, arithmetic,
and our kids are failing at that. So clearly we
need to put more time into that. Right. Well, that's
something How to Republicans or conservatives ever win an election
(30:11):
when people of good conscience and solid intelligence who think
they're staying informed by watching NBC News come away with
it wildly misinformed about the reality of an important story.
God help the Republic. So the video is out of
when Nancy Pelosi's husband got attacked by a hammer. We
got a little bit of the audio for you, and
(30:32):
we'll finish strong next Armstrong and get the Armstrong and
(30:55):
Getty show the bodycam footage of those police that have
been arrested for murder is coming out tonight. That's over Memphis.
The bodycam footage of Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, being
attacked with a hammer just came out a few minutes ago.
This is the police walking up to the door of
(31:16):
the Pelosi home. And do do you think there's anything else
we need to fill in before we listen to this
minute of audio? Well, who's it looked like? Opens the door?
Paul Pelosi opened the door. It's not clear really because
he is standing right next to the assailant, both of
them holding onto a hammer, right, and both kind of
(31:38):
wild eyed. Yeah, there's obviously real tension in the situation,
even though it's the assailant who answers the cops. So
what's going on here? Everything's fine? Yeah, we've cut out
the walk up, but the walk up the cops are
pretty calm and everything like that, so they weren't expecting
anything to be this crazy obviously. Anywhere here. It goes
from opening the door, I guess, Hi, how are you doing?
(32:04):
All right? What's going on? Man? We go Hi dropped
the hammer? Um? Nope, Hey, hey, hey, what is going on?
I'm not getting an answer on probably what you're got
(32:25):
a microp I'm doing getting Neverwardard and Everardsen backup, CO three,
give you a fan, Give me a fan for fourteen
(32:54):
never worked in Netwards and medic go three as well.
You got him. I'm not sure who's making those sounds,
if that's the hammer wielding lunatic or the elderly man
dying on the floor from having been bludgeoned with a hammer.
It turns out he didn't, but he could have. I
(33:15):
tell you what we've been talking about, the good cops
and bad cops and that sort of thing. These guys
leapt to the old man's defense without hesitation against a
hammer wielding lunatic and waited right in to stop the mayhem.
Good for them, but brave men. And I was talking
earlier about how you watch it and you realize how
quickly things happen, when things happen. I mean, it's just
(33:37):
it's not I wonder if I should what's you know?
You know, there's nothing, no time whatsoever right. And when
you talk about good cops and competent cops being judged
by people who said, well, he could have thought about
this and decided to do that. These people have no
concept of how quickly things happen when they happen. Now,
we got a text from some of you said, does
(33:58):
Popolosi have a drinking his hand? And then I just
saw a tweet from someone nationally saying, Paul Pelosi still
with a drink in his hand. I didn't see that.
It looked like it doesn't look like that to me,
But I was watching on my phone on a small screen,
and even if he did, what would what's your point? Um, yeah,
(34:19):
I don't think that's what's going on there. He looks
freaking scared to death. I'll think he might have his
phone in his hand. Ah, that's what it is. I
think he has his phone in his one hand and
he's holding onto the hammer with the other guy at
the other hand. But you know he's how about that
hole dropped the hammer? Um, nope, right, and then he
and then he immediately swings what does that look like
(34:41):
to you? And looks like a drink, yeah, cup or something.
I don't know what that is. Anyway, I was about
(35:04):
to say something. I'll save it from my final thought.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Admirable restraint. Jack.
Let's begin final thoughts. Now, let's get every everybody on
the crew to toss in a final thought to wrap
up the show. There he is our technical director of
Michael Angelo. Michael, keep thinking about the chat GPT. I'm
thinking you could use it to bet on sporting events,
and as far as video games go, you'll never win again.
(35:27):
If you're a regular person, You're never gonna be able
to beat that computer. M fascinating Jack a final thought
for us. I'm just looking at some of the text
and Twitter commentary on this. Now, Hey, I realized, like
Paul Pelosi names Pelosi aren't on my political team, and
but you realize, sometimes a crazy lunatic could just try
(35:48):
to kill an old man who you don't agree with politically,
and there's no really complicated conspiracy other than that. That's
the whole story. That's very very possible, you realize, right, Yeah,
I know it, I know it. My final thought is
a three time Jeopardy champion is calling racism among other
accusations toward the game. He says, Jeopardy is not the problem,
(36:10):
but it's centrality to American society is there will never
be a healthy quizzing culture in this country until we
learn to stop pretending that Jeopardy is important. When will
we have the healthy quizzing culture that we all dream of? Jack,
That'll be our topic Monday. There's never been equity between
Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, even though they're on back
(36:31):
to back all across the country. Those are two different
crowds right there. You're smarter, Breed's a dog could win it.
It's a Wheel of Fortune. Let's be honest, Armstrong, think
Yeddy rapping up another grueling excuse me, four hour work.
There so many people to thank, so little time. Go
to Armstrong and Guity dot com. We've got a lot
of great clicks for you. A book we mentioned, it's
at Armstrong and Guity dot com, an article, an interviewed.
(36:53):
The hot links are there, you can get the podcast
are fabulous. Armstrong and Getty extra Large with Ian Bremer
right there to be listened to this weekend. Who you're
rooting for this weekend? Forty nine ers? Hell yeah, buddy,
forty nine ers and chiefs for me see Monday, God
bless America. I'm Strong and Getty. I think of this
moment as a moment that is about great momentum uh okay,
(37:18):
do you understand? You know we um no signor no
signor I'm what's cold? Okay, so let's go with the buying.
Don't be scratching your nuts if you're hanging out. Hey, hey, hey,
I'm a scholar. I'm a historian. Over here, A great Friday, you,
Armstrong and Getty
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