May 1, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Trump's trial...
- Senior citizen scams...
- Are we approaching our Oppenheimer moment regarding Ai & military tech?
- A UC Berkeley dean talks about protesters showing-up at his home...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Trump has two rallies today. I guess he doesn't have
court for whatever reason. Two rallies today is going to
be in Wisconsin and Michigan, obviously both swing states, and
I'm sure he's going to have a lot of jazzy
stuff to say about all the very exciting news of
the day. I hope he focuses on the clear wins
that are law and order. Well, law and order could
(00:36):
spread across a whole bunch of things, college campus law
and order, dealing with the border, law and order, keeping
criminals in jail, law and order. I hope he deals
with all that sort of stuff and kind of stays
away from stolen election. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I think what he'll go with is I'm being treated
unfairly in my trial. That'll be this self indulgence. He's
going to go heavy on that. He'll violate the gag
order a couple more times too.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Go with some new inflation stats.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Good luck, Joe Biden's doing nothing about chaos across the country.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Go with that.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You know, you'll probably touch on that, but there'll be
plenty of self pity. That's just what he does. And
he happens to be right on the Alvin brag trial.
I've been reading Andy McCarthy in the National Review, who's
been taking a part how it is clearly unconstitutional according
to the Constitution of New York just because and this
is the nickel version of it, they're they're charging him
with misdemeanor but calling it a felony because it was
(01:31):
done in service of covering up another crime or committing
another crime. But they don't mention the crime, which is
specifically unconstitutional in New York State.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You have to spell out what crime.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And then there's the whole you know, some of the
other weakness of it, the idea of enforcing federal election
law a local DA he has no jurisdiction. This is
the worst railroading I've ever seen, politically speaking.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And then the only story that burbled up yesterday that
wasn't college protests was Trump being hit with nine thousand
dollars fine, nine different counts of violating the gag order
for criticizing the judge's daughter, among other things. Trying to
put in people's heads like the idea of some fifth
(02:16):
grade girl that Trump made fun of, and not the fact.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That your kid's ugly. You're ugly kid.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Not the fact that the judge's daughter is a full
grown woman who works for Kamala Harrison's campaign or worked
for Kamala Harrison's campaign in twenty twenty. Now, that doesn't
automatically mean the judge is corrupt, But could you get
a judge whose daughter didn't work for Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Be nice?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
This judge's name will live in infamy. I believe that
he is. He's everything Trump has said about him, honestly,
and you know, as most of you know, I'm no
big Trump fan either, but this is terrible for the
American justice system. So speaking of the justice system and
violating law, if you're ready to move on, Senor, I
thought this was so interesting and it's worth being aware of. Gosh,
(03:01):
there's so many variations on this. This is Pierre Thomas
on ABC tonight last night, the.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
FBI warning just how pervasive scams against senior citizens have
become victims, losing three point four billion dollars in twenty
twenty three, up from three point one billion in twenty
twenty two. The DOJ charging sixteen suspects in the Dominican
Republic and the US with the so called grandparent scam,
stealing millions of dollars in a multinational scheme.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The scammer would call.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The senior citizen claiming thousands of dollars were needed for
a loved one who had been in a car accident
involving a pregnant woman.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The person agreeing to pay the money. A courier would.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Then show up at the person's home and collect the money,
or the victim was instructed to mail the cash. The
FBI is encouraging financial institutions to do more to protect
senior citizens if they noticed their accounts being drained.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Did you see that case recently where the old man
shot an uber driver to death because she was the
winning mule, you know, the money person, the bag man.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I guess you'd say for one of these scams, she
had no idea what was going on. Just horrific. They'll
be shooting Ubert.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You don't need to shoot her over that anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Call Call the cops, Yeah, call the cops. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But yeah, that was another one of those scams. And
then the other one that's especially chilling as the whole
using AI to imitate your loved one's voice.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Wow, yeah, dang it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, I've heard examples of that. The person and then
the imitation of the person. There they are dead on
and it'll be better in a year. And so people
have been discussing having a code word among family members.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh wow, if.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I send something odd is going on, I'm going to
ask you for the code word, and if you can't
give it to.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Me, I'm hanging up.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So you got to have some sort of like the
ballgag is too tight safe word just among your ordinary
family members.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
An interesting illustration of the point. Yes, a password in
effect not a safe word. Keep that crap in your dungeon,
their Marquis de Sade. The hell what am I working with?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
It?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Crap in your dungeon?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So anyway, be careful with cameras moving along. I thought
this was so interesting. It comes from uh Oh, I
guess it is. The Dispatch does an occasional uh Tech
Update letter and and they were writing about well, the
headline is what happens online often actually stays online, And
(05:30):
the writer says, over the past few years, I've watched
parents and family and friends retreat from online spaces they
used to comment and engage in political issues online. Now
they just lurk occasionally in Look, but they don't participate.
And a couple of years back, who am I quoting here?
Will Reinhart.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
A couple of years back, while working at the Center
for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, I made
sure we asked a series of questions about tech.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Use when we ran our bi annual tech poll.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
We gave participants four statements and ask them to indicate
how much they agreed or disagreed with following statements.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I feel comfortable sharing my political views on social media,
or social media platforms have become the primary channel by
which important public policy conversations are taking place. Or I
primarily use social media to share my political beliefs with others,
or I avoid political conversations online.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
And yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Don't know what it'd be like to be a regular person,
civilian as in the media, because I share my political
positions through our But if I didn't have that, I
don't think I would touch politics and social media really,
which is probably not good. But I don't think I would.
I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, the results were what I expected will wrights and
have remained persistent over subsequent polls. Over two thirds seventy
percent of people actively avoid political conversations online, while people
increasingly feel comfortable sharing political ideas online. For the vast majority,
social media is not where they share political ideas. If
they are doing it, they are doing it in casual settings.
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But more than likely they are mostly silent on these topics.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What I'd like to know is the breakdown between conservatives
who keep their mouths shut liberals who keep their mouths shut.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, that's a good point, and then he quotes. Pew
Research recorded a similar trend. Some seventy percent of US
social media users never rarely post about political and social issues. Rather,
a small group, just nine percent, is talking about politics
all the time. This group tends to lean either very
democrat or very Republican. Moderates are wildly underrepresented in social media,
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of course, which I think anybody who spends any time
on social media can tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Anyway, the point of this all is that, well, for instance,
power laws dominate. Oh okay, For example, the most prolific
ten percent of Reddit users create eighty percent of all content.
Say that again, ten percent create eighty percent of the content.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And it's worse than that on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You said Reddit, right, Yeah, here's an assistant professor University
of Georgia found that quote about two percent of those
who start discussion threads attract about fifty percent of the replies.
There is. Another analysis of Reddit found that the top
one percent of users wrote forty percent of the comments.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Wow, don't you have anything else to do? That seems
more example.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Some more examples that I found really interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
NPR disabled comments on its website because one conservative comment, No,
I kid, I made that up. They discontinued comments on
their website after finding out that more than half of
all comments in a three month period came from just
twenty six hundred users. In some months, the service cost
NPR twice what it was budgeted, served as a small
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part of its overall audience. So anyway, it's the same
phenomenon Wikipedia, seventy seven percent of entries are written by
one percent of users.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, you're a sad loser who wants to feel like
you matter.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I guess weighing in on these social media platforms is
a good idea because you get outsized influence because people
act like you know you represent a lot more people
on Twitter. The actual numbers are six percent of Twitter
users account for three quarters.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Of tweets about politics.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Six percent account for three quarters, which means that fewer
than one percent of Americans are weighing in about politics
on Twitter. But Twitter gets all that attention for various
things that people say.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, because everybody in the legacy media is is on Twitter.
We are for what's source now, TikTok is a tool
of Chinese subversion, propaganda, and surveillance. Having said that, though,
you remember last November when various outlets reported that young
TikTokers were sharing Osama bin Laden's manifesto. But when John
Herman looked into the trend he found just a few
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dozen results for the manifesto. He concluded it was a
case of overstated virality.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I have that overstated virility. Yeah, I have this virality.
I should have pronounced it virality.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'm going to rock your world.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
No I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So this is interesting. He also says your world will
go unrocked.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Friend.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
The widely accepted interpretation as it all wrong. The Internet
doesn't make people monsters. Rather, a minority of online myscreants
degrade the experience for the broader community.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I think both are at work.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I know there's price. Well, so these are private platforms.
What if these private platforms did a year allowed five
posts a week. How would that change the platforms so
nobody can dominally, Yeah, fundamentally, I'd say yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Well, And part of the reason I think it's both
those things at once is the number of times.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And this has happened so many times. We'll get an email,
for instance, because I'll respond to emails now and again,
not as many as i'd like to. I just it
would be too time consuming.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But somebody will write in something really vicious, I mean,
just nasty because they disagree. And maybe it's somebody who
I recognize their name, they've emailed many times, have not
been like that before. Just out of curiosity, I'll say, hey,
got your note. It seems way over the top. What
I was trying to express was this, And I was
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about to say one hundred percent of the time. That's
maybe not true, but it's so close to one hundred
percent of the time it might as well be. That
person writes back and says, I'm so sorry that was
over the top.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I shouldn't have written that I really love you guys.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It's the anonymity of the keyboard and the separation of
the Internet. You don't feel like you're interacting with a
real human being.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Plus overstated snark is the coin of the realm. There's
that whole thing too well.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Because you've got that small minority unleashing bomb blast after
bomb blast. There's no way to be seen or heard
unless you well blacks to bombs.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But now you do know Joe will Penny length the
apology to any complaint you have, dearest reader, I am
so unhappy that you found it less than appealing. It
may the first twenty twenty twenty four when we got
on the subject of Sincerely.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Your humble andt obedient servant, Joseph Getty.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
If there's anything I can do for you in the future,
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more on the wait and stay here Marstraw and Getty.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Jellisrith is now the first artist in history to occupy
all of the top fourteen spots on Billboard's Hot one
hundred list. Year has four hundred songs in the top fourteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Bob about how much people don't like her.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Twenty nine of the thirty one tracks on her new
album are in the top fifty, which is very sad
for the two tracks that aren't in the top fifty.
I feel like Taylor Swift at this point, if you
wanted to, could win the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That is amazing her popularity.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, she reminds me of Donald Trump in an odd way.
That her constituency is fiercely loyal.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Okay, So I got this story about how people with
precarious employment drink more. The question, of course, is that
the people that drink more have precarious employment.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But we'll get to that in just a second.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I do need, Michael, you whoever, to set a time
or something, because I'm about to start talking about AI
and you know how I am, so give me a limit.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think I can do this in ninety seconds maybe, okay,
ninety second timer and then you have a buzzer go
off at ninety seconds, so I don't go to.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Let's start now. But this is here's a quote.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
This is our Oppenheimer moment for our generation, said the
Austrian Foreign Ministry yesterday at a big gathering where where
one hundred countries convened in Vienna to discuss how possibly
countries can control the merger of AI with military technologies.
And it's the idea now that practically everybody with a
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little bit of know how and AI is gonna be
able to well, I'll read the quote here. The easy
availability of autonomous weapons removes limitations that used to ensure
only a few could enter the arms race. Now, students
with a three D pinter, a three D printer and
basic programming knowledge can make drones with the capacity to
cause widespread casualties. Autonomous weapons have forever changed the concept
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of international stability.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Well, time to move off the grid.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's a pretty big sentence right now, the Oppenheimer moment
where you cross the line where okay, I guess nuclear
weapons are thing and eventually all countries will have them. Amazingly,
only nine countries do have them.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is Ted Kazinski's cabin available? Can I make it a
cash offer on it?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah? I don't exactly understand how the three D printer?
What am I going to squirt toner at people? I mean,
what's the mass casualty event?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, no, you fool, They'll manufacture whatever they need done.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The bomb, right, But yeah, you talk about entering a
new world when just regular people can have weapons that
they fly around and have mass casualty events. My time
is up.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's just getting good too.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah. I was going to say another sentence, but I can't,
so I won't, and the topic will come up again.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
If I were going to say one more sentence on
the top of you think that sentence would have been.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Giving you an excuse to say the next sentence.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
When the guy who runs Google said AI is going
to be as big as fire or electricity, I'm starting
to think maybe he's right. That's scary. There are three
kinds of employment. I didn't know this standard employment, which
about forty percent of us have, substandard employment, which about
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a third of us have, and then precarious employment, which
thirteen percent of us have. And this study is out
talking about gig economy jobs, which is pretty much describes
precarious employment. Precarious employment is anything where you could lose
your job at any time and you don't know your
hours and blah blah blah. And this the article talks
about how people that have a precarious employment drink a
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lot more, and they're presenting it as if that's like
a cause and effect of these poor people with precarious
employment are forced to drink to deal with their lives,
as opposed to if you drink a lot, you might
not have standard or even substandard employment. Maybe the best
you can do is, you know, deliver an Amazon boxes
now and then when you sober up. I mean it
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could work both ways, obviously.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, yeah, this smells like it's out of the same
people who've tried to eliminate gig work in California, for instance,
and ruined so many thousands lives.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm thinking they got it backwards on which is causing
which for the most part.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah. Also, we should have a twenty dollars minimum wage
for burger flippers. Yeah yeah, yeah. We ought to unionize
the McDonald's. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, whatever, Let people do
what they want. Communists, we got so much more stuff
on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's not Ai Armstrong and Getty. Don't judge. Don't judge.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You don't know, stay tuned about, stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So you probably don't know who Irwin Schimerinsky is. I
do not. Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Dang it, I thought I had all the deans in
America memorized. But I guess I don't well keep forking son.
It's a noble goal.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
He explains more or less what happened, but he holds
dinners for the law school grads. I'm sorry for each
class first year students. At the end of the year,
and at his home, he and his wife put it
on and they have a like a fest celebrating all
the first years getting to the end of the first year.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's really a lovely and quaint tradition events.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, thank you, Matte And but this time, as I think, yeah,
it went sideways. So we'll just we'll play some of
the audio of him doing an interview on MSNBC and
I'll fill in the blanks as needed.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Go ahead, Michaels.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
There is a terrible anti Semitic troupe of blood libel.
The Jews killed gentiles to use their blood, Whereas it's
false and it's awful to see.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
On all the bulletin boards in the law school.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
The poster that you just put up deeply offensive and
blatantly anti Semitic. Yet I felt as dean that they
had the right to put those posters on the bulletin boards,
and in response to a quest said I could not
take them down without violating the First Amendment.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
So this guy's nickname is Shem or Kem. And the
posters that were all all over the law school no
dinner with the Zionist Shem while Gaza starves. And it
added a caricature of mister Schimerinski holding a bloody knife
and fork with what appeared to be blood on his lips,
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an image that evokes the horrible anti Semitic blood libel,
in which Jews are accused of killing and cannibalizing gentile children.
And the posters attacked him for no apparent reason other
than that he was Jewish. The posters and the demonstrators
didn't cite anything he has said or done.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
It was just because he was a Jew. And then
it was time for the dinners, which are held on
successive nights. But sixty one, please Michael.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
The First Amendment protects the right of the students to
put anti Semitic posters on the wall are online. The
First Amendment protected the right of the students to come
out of the public streets the sidewalk next to my
house and bang drugs and make noise, but when it
comes into my deckyard, when it's disrupting an event in
my phone, there is no First Amendment right. I think
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the core of the First Amendment is that all ideas
and views can be expressed, even very offensive ones. But
under the First Amendment there can always be a time, place,
in manner restrictions with regard to speech.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So, just as his group of sixties students began eating,
he was a stunned, I'll read it. I was stunned
to see the leader of Law Students for Justice in Palestine,
who was among the registered guests, standing up with a
microphone that she had brought, go up to steps in
the yard and began reading a speech about the plight
of the Palestinians. My wife and I immediately approached her
and asked her to stop leaving and leave the premise,
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to stop speaking, leave the premises, the protester continued. At
one point my wife attempted to take away her microphone.
Repeatedly we said to her, you're a guest in our home,
please leave, And the student insisted I have free speech rights. Yeah,
I know, to do a speech at my private gathering
in my yard. No, you don't unless you want your
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ass kick to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Anyway, that's the first Amendment question that he was talking about.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, getting back to uh, you know one of the
themes of the show today. Those fifty dudes who showed
up at UCLA last night and started wailing on hippies.
It f you'll pardon the paraphrasing of what happened Marxists. Yes,
not in favor of vigilanti justice. But that's what's gonna
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happen if you don't, I mean, if authorities don't take
care of this, but you don't get to come in
my yard and start screaming about what a bad person
I am. That is not going to end well.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
So a couple of nights later, about fifteen people came
to our homie rights and stood on the free steeps,
stood on the street in front of it, and then
on the path directly next to our backyard. They chanted
loudly and at times offensively. They yelled and banged drums
to make as much noise as possible to disturb the dinner.
The event continued, This is UC Berkeley, and it's all
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just because he was a Jew, and this is being
Actually this account is in the Atlantic. To the Atlantic's credit,
they've been cowards in the past and their lefties, but
this is too much for them, evidently, How.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Does it, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
How is this not a national story that everybody's tired
of hearing of by now? And the President has given
an Oval Office address about I mean, well, that's incredible.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Some transgender person gets misgendered and the President will stop
the country and give a speech. But one of the
most prominent Jewish scholars in America is targeted for being
a Jew. And why are we not all talking about
the nineteen thirties in Germany and Crystal Knock and the
rest of it. The professor goes on, there.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Are many of our students who are calling for the
end of Israel, the end of what they call Zionism.
I do not think that criticizing Israel is anti Semitic.
I am very critical of many of Israel's policies. But
I do think that at times the rhetoric of being
anti Zionist becomes blatantly anti Semitic. And it was said
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by one of your reporters there were anti Semitic flyers
on the Columbia campus. There are things that have an
anti Semitic said on the Berkeley campus, and certainly the
flyers that were put up there on the boat and
board can't be seen as anything else other than anti semetric.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, right, And the best argument for this being about
being Jewish as opposed to just about the downtrodden is
that there's lots of downtrodden people being abused in lots
of ways and lots of countries. And why are you
only so angry about this one?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And to echo the sentiments of the reporter that he
just quoted, it was a National Review. I believe that
that had a really good article about the misreporting of
all of this by.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
And they point out that some of the overt unmistakable
anti Semitic stuff and pro Hamas stuff and pro October
seventh stuff, It's not like there have been two or
three examples of that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
There have been.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Dozens and dozens and dozens Next thing, go ahead, Oh sorry,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
They weren't protesting anything that I had said or done.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Their only request was.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
At the University of California did ask, which isn't in
the control of the law school or even the campus.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's to the regions that too.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Really heightened the sense that this was a protest against.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Me because I was Jewish. And the final clip, Michael.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I think what makes this issue different from the name scene.
It's deeply divided the students are. I was in college
during the Vietnam War. The students were young, largely unified
against the war. Now there's a deep division among the
students unlike anything I've seen before.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Did I miss a meeting at some point in my
life that explains why you should hate Jews like I
just I don't get where this comes from. How are
you like a privileged Berkeley student kid, which by definition
your pro and.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
This is what you're spending your anger on. What?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
How did this come from a lot of it's just
the oppressor oppressed the victim oppressor worldview. Israel is the powerful,
they're the white the white world, and they're oppressing the
poor brown people.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh, I know what to do. I know what to do.
I'm supposed to be angry about that, say the little simpletons. Yeah,
and then you got all the old.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Tropes about Jewish people and the rest of it that
have come and gone through history. You know, whether in
Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, or a hundred other places.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
That's one of them. Yeah, that's yeah, that's the other folks.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, wow, Wow, Jack enjoying playing with fire. I'm enjoying
listening to it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Go ahead, any more.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Of your your little chuckles for us, your little chuckles.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I like that one. I'll tell you what. That one's accurate.
That one needs to be studied by science.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh boy, again, you're solo on this one.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Short People, of course, is what I'm talking about. I
can't drive, but got no reason to live. I played
that for my kids there day. Katie's probably never heard
that song. You ever heard Randy Newman's Short People, Katie?
That was long before your time? No, I have not. Yeah,
my kids were pretty hilarious. Short People got No Reason
to Live. It's a Randy Newman song and it's it's
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pretty hilarious. I played that for my kids. They couldn't
believe that was a hit song in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Tongue in cheek. Of course, he is sympathetic to them plight.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I don't think so. I think you hated the short People.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Sounds like this.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
We'll give you a couple of verses, because it is
pretty funny that it ever existed, and.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Newman after that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Oh man, is he fantastic?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Short?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
No reason, no reason, no reason out landish. I'm sure
if we were doing talk radio in the seventies, we'd
have talked about this for an hour.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Take care of calls, walk around telling big, big lies.
You can't trust me. See no welcome that shoe.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's the part of my kid's life. They got little
noses and tiny little teeth. The short person, I am offending,
and they wear little shoes on their tight and there's
there with their their nost little feet or whatever he says.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
There aren't no short people are on here anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
My teas for next segment was don't judge, don't judge,
don't when it comes to judging, I have one word,
don't explain that coming up, among other things, stay here,
armstrong and getty.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
This is an epic story, coldsmic propotion. The bad guys
are closing.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Nope, we're gonna beat it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Nothing like a good twist. Who doesn't love a twist?
So that's enough of that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's from the new movie Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling,
which looks pretty good, and my son wants to see it,
so I think we're gonna go see it in the
theater this weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And that's what why.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Ryan Gosling was on Saturday Night Live hosting a couple
of weeks ago to promote his new big movie, and
he was hilarious on Saturday Night Live. He's been nominated
for three Oscars, and I remember was watching him, thinking, Uh,
how does some people get born like that? He looks
like an underwear model. He's hilarious, He sings, he plays instruments,
he dances, he does all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And this gets to my don't judge thing that I
was teasing earlier.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
And I always remember the first paragraph of The Great Gatsby,
in which paraphrasing, I don't have it memorized word for word,
but it's more or less. My dad always told me,
before you judge, somebody realized they may not have had
all the advantages that you had, or disadvantages if you
look at it the other way. So Ryan Gosling, who
seems like he's had every break in life. For some reason,
(29:30):
I went to Wikipedia to read about him. He's only
forty three, three Academy Award nominations and all that and
all the success. He was in ken In Barbie, and
he was in La La Lan and blah blah blah blah.
He had a miserable upbringing, like just miserable. His parents
got divorced really really young. He got bullied all the
time for a variety of reasons, bad schools, moved around
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a lot, never learned to read.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Hated childhood.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
He said, he hated every aspect of childhood the whole time,
wo around all these different things. He ends up on
the Mickey mouse Club because he is insanely talented, but
his mom flaked off somehow. Justin Timberlake is his Justin
Timberlake's mom is his guardian because he ended up living
with the Timberlakes when they were both on Mickey mouse
(30:15):
Club and his parents freaked out, flaked out and everything
like that. But anyway, you wouldn't unless you had a
horrible childhood. Also, I wouldn't trade my life for his life.
Having read about it, and just you know, we all
get we all get Delta deck of whatever. But I
don't know. I just thought it was interesting from the
people who seem like they got it now, and maybe
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they do have it now, doesn't mean, no, it's always
been easy or the other way.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. Envy is just it's never a productive.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Emotion.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
You can admire somebody or think that lifestyle looks appealing
to me, I'm gonna work hard and get ahead and
live that lifestyle. I mean, that's that's not envy per se,
something different. But yeah, you never know what's going on
behind somebody's eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Obviously, obviously a guy like him was handed by God
a tremendous amount of talent that allows you to do
certain things.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But again, I wouldn't trade childhoods by any means whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And then I started watching in the documentary last night
about Johnny Manzel, who unless you're a football fan, you
wouldn't know. He was a first college player to ever
win the Heisman as a freshman when he was in college,
and he was just so amazingly talented and everything like that,
got into the NFL and.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Absolutely blew up his life.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
They're drinking and drugs and bad choices and hanging around
with bad people and just blew it off. So he
was handed all of these talents and skills and everything
like that and absolutely destroyed it through bad choices I
don't know. It seems they sort are, though, I guess
because I'm raising kids. I think about this a lot.
But the choices you make and how you deal with
the hand you're delt Man is the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, I'm such a huge, huge fan of and has
been so helpful to me as an individual and as
a parent. The opposite of what has been taught to
kids for a couple of generations, now heightened lukianof I
have written about it a lot, but the philosophy of
right now, what you've had, this crap happen to you,
(32:21):
Somebody hurt your feelings, whatever, maybe you had bad parents, whatever, Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Now what not to be backward focused? You have to
deal with it, you have to heal, but don't be
backward focused because you've got to do something today and tomorrow.
What will those things be? That has to be your focus,
and that's a healthy focus. Final thought with I think
(32:51):
that's my favorite one, and I don't know why. Here's
your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Wouldn't that be joyful? How about Michael Ege or a
technical director?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
First Michael, you know I used to judge people that
were vegetarian.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I hate to say it, but now that I've.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Had to change my diet and eat a lot more vegetables,
I see.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Now most of them are pains in the asses.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well wow, there's a contrasts there.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And accurate true, one hundred percent guaranteed true. Do you
feel better even the vegetable diet most I Do you
notice the difference?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yes, yes, I do. Well.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Moving on from Jack's anchor problems, Katie Green, do you
have a final thought for us?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
One thing I'll never do is be a vegetarian. But
my final thoughts is I just purged a bunch of
T shirts, got rid of them, and now.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I have to go buy a Fuzzy Bear T shirt from.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Armstrong getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And I'm adding back to the collection that.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I just tried to get rid of.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So if you didn't listen to our one of the show,
perhaps you should Armstrong and Giddy on demand.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The podcast Jack A.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Final Thoughtful featured a new cast member named Fuzzy Bear.
They're gonna want on a T shirt? Michael, I got
another question from my final thought are healthy foods starting
to taste better to you. Yes, that's what I hear happens. Yes,
they are tasting better, like your body adjusts, so it
doesn't have to be as sweet as candy or something
like that to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Absolutely, they sid a.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Really sweet taste really bad to me, no interesting, or
really really salty. Your tolerance for salty builds over time.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Too, and it's bad for your hails anyway. Why is
salt bad for you? What's it do for you? Raise
your blood pressure?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't eat much sauce. I eat hardly any salt.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Are you sure? Do you eat prepared foods?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah? But I never buns of sauce. Sure, I understand that,
but I never. So you eat a lot of salt?
Answer the question? But I never even a question. But
I'm just yelling. But I never put salt on anything
that's meaningless.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Okay, Armstrong, you getty wraping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's like if somebody like uses lots of heroin in
their burgers, he says, I don't take caro win. I
just eat burgers full of heroin. Where are you getting
these heroin burgers? They're delicious and relaxed. Oh my god,
did you do your part? I did go to armstrong
a getdy dot com. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Get that new T shirt. It's very funny. See tomorrow.
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Two individuals the Committee is particularly concerned about, I'm Strong
and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
This has to stop, and it has to stop like
the day before yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Everyone knows that no, I'm not making this up. This
is real. Yeah. Absolutely, I don't know what tell's going
on here, and the DJ needs to get off its
ass and investigate.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
If the dramatics could come down just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Well, historically that's true with stars. The key word in
that phrase is the word thank you all very much,
Armstrong and Getty.
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Trump has two rallies today. I guess he doesn't have
court for whatever reason. Two rallies today is going to
be in Wisconsin and Michigan, obviously both swing states, and
I'm sure he's going to have a lot of jazzy
stuff to say about all the very exciting news of
the day. I hope he focuses on the clear wins
that are law and order. Well, law and order could
(00:36):
spread across a whole bunch of things, college campus law
and order, dealing with the border, law and order, keeping
criminals in jail, law and order. I hope he deals
with all that sort of stuff and kind of stays
away from stolen election. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I think what he'll go with is I'm being treated
unfairly in my trial. That'll be this self indulgence. He's
going to go heavy on that. He'll violate the gag
order a couple more times too.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Go with some new inflation stats.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Good luck, Joe Biden's doing nothing about chaos across the country.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Go with that.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You know, you'll probably touch on that, but there'll be
plenty of self pity. That's just what he does. And
he happens to be right on the Alvin brag trial.
I've been reading Andy McCarthy in the National Review, who's
been taking a part how it is clearly unconstitutional according
to the Constitution of New York just because and this
is the nickel version of it, they're they're charging him
with misdemeanor but calling it a felony because it was
(01:31):
done in service of covering up another crime or committing
another crime. But they don't mention the crime, which is
specifically unconstitutional in New York State.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You have to spell out what crime.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And then there's the whole you know, some of the
other weakness of it, the idea of enforcing federal election
law a local DA he has no jurisdiction. This is
the worst railroading I've ever seen, politically speaking.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And then the only story that burbled up yesterday that
wasn't college protests was Trump being hit with nine thousand
dollars fine, nine different counts of violating the gag order
for criticizing the judge's daughter, among other things. Trying to
put in people's heads like the idea of some fifth
(02:16):
grade girl that Trump made fun of, and not the fact.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That your kid's ugly. You're ugly kid.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Not the fact that the judge's daughter is a full
grown woman who works for Kamala Harrison's campaign or worked
for Kamala Harrison's campaign in twenty twenty. Now, that doesn't
automatically mean the judge is corrupt, But could you get
a judge whose daughter didn't work for Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Be nice?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
This judge's name will live in infamy. I believe that
he is. He's everything Trump has said about him, honestly,
and you know, as most of you know, I'm no
big Trump fan either, but this is terrible for the
American justice system. So speaking of the justice system and
violating law, if you're ready to move on, Senor, I
thought this was so interesting and it's worth being aware of. Gosh,
(03:01):
there's so many variations on this. This is Pierre Thomas
on ABC tonight last night, the.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
FBI warning just how pervasive scams against senior citizens have
become victims, losing three point four billion dollars in twenty
twenty three, up from three point one billion in twenty
twenty two. The DOJ charging sixteen suspects in the Dominican
Republic and the US with the so called grandparent scam,
stealing millions of dollars in a multinational scheme.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The scammer would call.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The senior citizen claiming thousands of dollars were needed for
a loved one who had been in a car accident
involving a pregnant woman.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The person agreeing to pay the money. A courier would.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Then show up at the person's home and collect the money,
or the victim was instructed to mail the cash. The
FBI is encouraging financial institutions to do more to protect
senior citizens if they noticed their accounts being drained.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Did you see that case recently where the old man
shot an uber driver to death because she was the
winning mule, you know, the money person, the bag man.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I guess you'd say for one of these scams, she
had no idea what was going on. Just horrific. They'll
be shooting Ubert.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You don't need to shoot her over that anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Call Call the cops, Yeah, call the cops. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But yeah, that was another one of those scams. And
then the other one that's especially chilling as the whole
using AI to imitate your loved one's voice.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Wow, yeah, dang it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, I've heard examples of that. The person and then
the imitation of the person. There they are dead on
and it'll be better in a year. And so people
have been discussing having a code word among family members.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh wow, if.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I send something odd is going on, I'm going to
ask you for the code word, and if you can't
give it to.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Me, I'm hanging up.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So you got to have some sort of like the
ballgag is too tight safe word just among your ordinary
family members.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
An interesting illustration of the point. Yes, a password in
effect not a safe word. Keep that crap in your dungeon,
their Marquis de Sade. The hell what am I working with?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
It?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Crap in your dungeon?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So anyway, be careful with cameras moving along. I thought
this was so interesting. It comes from uh Oh, I
guess it is. The Dispatch does an occasional uh Tech
Update letter and and they were writing about well, the
headline is what happens online often actually stays online, And
(05:30):
the writer says, over the past few years, I've watched
parents and family and friends retreat from online spaces they
used to comment and engage in political issues online. Now
they just lurk occasionally in Look, but they don't participate.
And a couple of years back, who am I quoting here?
Will Reinhart.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
A couple of years back, while working at the Center
for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, I made
sure we asked a series of questions about tech.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Use when we ran our bi annual tech poll.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
We gave participants four statements and ask them to indicate
how much they agreed or disagreed with following statements.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I feel comfortable sharing my political views on social media,
or social media platforms have become the primary channel by
which important public policy conversations are taking place. Or I
primarily use social media to share my political beliefs with others,
or I avoid political conversations online.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
And yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Don't know what it'd be like to be a regular person,
civilian as in the media, because I share my political
positions through our But if I didn't have that, I
don't think I would touch politics and social media really,
which is probably not good. But I don't think I would.
I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, the results were what I expected will wrights and
have remained persistent over subsequent polls. Over two thirds seventy
percent of people actively avoid political conversations online, while people
increasingly feel comfortable sharing political ideas online. For the vast majority,
social media is not where they share political ideas. If
they are doing it, they are doing it in casual settings.
(07:01):
But more than likely they are mostly silent on these topics.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What I'd like to know is the breakdown between conservatives
who keep their mouths shut liberals who keep their mouths shut.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, that's a good point, and then he quotes. Pew
Research recorded a similar trend. Some seventy percent of US
social media users never rarely post about political and social issues. Rather,
a small group, just nine percent, is talking about politics
all the time. This group tends to lean either very
democrat or very Republican. Moderates are wildly underrepresented in social media,
(07:36):
of course, which I think anybody who spends any time
on social media can tell you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Anyway, the point of this all is that, well, for instance,
power laws dominate. Oh okay, For example, the most prolific
ten percent of Reddit users create eighty percent of all content.
Say that again, ten percent create eighty percent of the content.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And it's worse than that on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You said Reddit, right, Yeah, here's an assistant professor University
of Georgia found that quote about two percent of those
who start discussion threads attract about fifty percent of the replies.
There is. Another analysis of Reddit found that the top
one percent of users wrote forty percent of the comments.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Wow, don't you have anything else to do? That seems
more example.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Some more examples that I found really interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
NPR disabled comments on its website because one conservative comment, No,
I kid, I made that up. They discontinued comments on
their website after finding out that more than half of
all comments in a three month period came from just
twenty six hundred users. In some months, the service cost
NPR twice what it was budgeted, served as a small
(08:51):
part of its overall audience. So anyway, it's the same
phenomenon Wikipedia, seventy seven percent of entries are written by
one percent of users.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, you're a sad loser who wants to feel like
you matter.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I guess weighing in on these social media platforms is
a good idea because you get outsized influence because people
act like you know you represent a lot more people
on Twitter. The actual numbers are six percent of Twitter
users account for three quarters.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Of tweets about politics.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Six percent account for three quarters, which means that fewer
than one percent of Americans are weighing in about politics
on Twitter. But Twitter gets all that attention for various
things that people say.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, because everybody in the legacy media is is on Twitter.
We are for what's source now, TikTok is a tool
of Chinese subversion, propaganda, and surveillance. Having said that, though,
you remember last November when various outlets reported that young
TikTokers were sharing Osama bin Laden's manifesto. But when John
Herman looked into the trend he found just a few
(09:51):
dozen results for the manifesto. He concluded it was a
case of overstated virality.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I have that overstated virility. Yeah, I have this virality.
I should have pronounced it virality.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'm going to rock your world.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
No I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So this is interesting. He also says your world will
go unrocked.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Friend.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
The widely accepted interpretation as it all wrong. The Internet
doesn't make people monsters. Rather, a minority of online myscreants
degrade the experience for the broader community.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I think both are at work.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I know there's price. Well, so these are private platforms.
What if these private platforms did a year allowed five
posts a week. How would that change the platforms so
nobody can dominally, Yeah, fundamentally, I'd say yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Well, And part of the reason I think it's both
those things at once is the number of times.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And this has happened so many times. We'll get an email,
for instance, because I'll respond to emails now and again,
not as many as i'd like to. I just it
would be too time consuming.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But somebody will write in something really vicious, I mean,
just nasty because they disagree. And maybe it's somebody who
I recognize their name, they've emailed many times, have not
been like that before. Just out of curiosity, I'll say, hey,
got your note. It seems way over the top. What
I was trying to express was this, And I was
(11:24):
about to say one hundred percent of the time. That's
maybe not true, but it's so close to one hundred
percent of the time it might as well be. That
person writes back and says, I'm so sorry that was
over the top.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I shouldn't have written that I really love you guys.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It's the anonymity of the keyboard and the separation of
the Internet. You don't feel like you're interacting with a
real human being.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Plus overstated snark is the coin of the realm. There's
that whole thing too well.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Because you've got that small minority unleashing bomb blast after
bomb blast. There's no way to be seen or heard
unless you well blacks to bombs.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But now you do know Joe will Penny length the
apology to any complaint you have, dearest reader, I am
so unhappy that you found it less than appealing. It
may the first twenty twenty twenty four when we got
on the subject of Sincerely.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Your humble andt obedient servant, Joseph Getty.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
If there's anything I can do for you in the future,
here's my home number exactly. Oh, we've got a lot
more on the wait and stay here Marstraw and Getty.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Jellisrith is now the first artist in history to occupy
all of the top fourteen spots on Billboard's Hot one
hundred list. Year has four hundred songs in the top fourteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Bob about how much people don't like her.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Twenty nine of the thirty one tracks on her new
album are in the top fifty, which is very sad
for the two tracks that aren't in the top fifty.
I feel like Taylor Swift at this point, if you
wanted to, could win the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That is amazing her popularity.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, she reminds me of Donald Trump in an odd way.
That her constituency is fiercely loyal.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Okay, So I got this story about how people with
precarious employment drink more. The question, of course, is that
the people that drink more have precarious employment.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But we'll get to that in just a second.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I do need, Michael, you whoever, to set a time
or something, because I'm about to start talking about AI
and you know how I am, so give me a limit.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think I can do this in ninety seconds maybe, okay,
ninety second timer and then you have a buzzer go
off at ninety seconds, so I don't go to.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Let's start now. But this is here's a quote.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
This is our Oppenheimer moment for our generation, said the
Austrian Foreign Ministry yesterday at a big gathering where where
one hundred countries convened in Vienna to discuss how possibly
countries can control the merger of AI with military technologies.
And it's the idea now that practically everybody with a
(14:14):
little bit of know how and AI is gonna be
able to well, I'll read the quote here. The easy
availability of autonomous weapons removes limitations that used to ensure
only a few could enter the arms race. Now, students
with a three D pinter, a three D printer and
basic programming knowledge can make drones with the capacity to
cause widespread casualties. Autonomous weapons have forever changed the concept
(14:38):
of international stability.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Well, time to move off the grid.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's a pretty big sentence right now, the Oppenheimer moment
where you cross the line where okay, I guess nuclear
weapons are thing and eventually all countries will have them. Amazingly,
only nine countries do have them.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is Ted Kazinski's cabin available? Can I make it a
cash offer on it?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah? I don't exactly understand how the three D printer?
What am I going to squirt toner at people? I mean,
what's the mass casualty event?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, no, you fool, They'll manufacture whatever they need done.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The bomb, right, But yeah, you talk about entering a
new world when just regular people can have weapons that
they fly around and have mass casualty events. My time
is up.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's just getting good too.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah. I was going to say another sentence, but I can't,
so I won't, and the topic will come up again.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
If I were going to say one more sentence on
the top of you think that sentence would have been.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Giving you an excuse to say the next sentence.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
When the guy who runs Google said AI is going
to be as big as fire or electricity, I'm starting
to think maybe he's right. That's scary. There are three
kinds of employment. I didn't know this standard employment, which
about forty percent of us have, substandard employment, which about
(16:04):
a third of us have, and then precarious employment, which
thirteen percent of us have. And this study is out
talking about gig economy jobs, which is pretty much describes
precarious employment. Precarious employment is anything where you could lose
your job at any time and you don't know your
hours and blah blah blah. And this the article talks
about how people that have a precarious employment drink a
(16:28):
lot more, and they're presenting it as if that's like
a cause and effect of these poor people with precarious
employment are forced to drink to deal with their lives,
as opposed to if you drink a lot, you might
not have standard or even substandard employment. Maybe the best
you can do is, you know, deliver an Amazon boxes
now and then when you sober up. I mean it
(16:49):
could work both ways, obviously.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, yeah, this smells like it's out of the same
people who've tried to eliminate gig work in California, for instance,
and ruined so many thousands lives.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm thinking they got it backwards on which is causing
which for the most part.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah. Also, we should have a twenty dollars minimum wage
for burger flippers. Yeah yeah, yeah. We ought to unionize
the McDonald's. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, whatever, Let people do
what they want. Communists, we got so much more stuff
on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's not Ai Armstrong and Getty. Don't judge. Don't judge.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You don't know, stay tuned about, stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So you probably don't know who Irwin Schimerinsky is. I
do not. Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Dang it, I thought I had all the deans in
America memorized. But I guess I don't well keep forking son.
It's a noble goal.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
He explains more or less what happened, but he holds
dinners for the law school grads. I'm sorry for each
class first year students. At the end of the year,
and at his home, he and his wife put it
on and they have a like a fest celebrating all
the first years getting to the end of the first year.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's really a lovely and quaint tradition events.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, thank you, Matte And but this time, as I think, yeah,
it went sideways. So we'll just we'll play some of
the audio of him doing an interview on MSNBC and
I'll fill in the blanks as needed.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Go ahead, Michaels.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
There is a terrible anti Semitic troupe of blood libel.
The Jews killed gentiles to use their blood, Whereas it's
false and it's awful to see.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
On all the bulletin boards in the law school.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
The poster that you just put up deeply offensive and
blatantly anti Semitic. Yet I felt as dean that they
had the right to put those posters on the bulletin boards,
and in response to a quest said I could not
take them down without violating the First Amendment.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
So this guy's nickname is Shem or Kem. And the
posters that were all all over the law school no
dinner with the Zionist Shem while Gaza starves. And it
added a caricature of mister Schimerinski holding a bloody knife
and fork with what appeared to be blood on his lips,
(19:25):
an image that evokes the horrible anti Semitic blood libel,
in which Jews are accused of killing and cannibalizing gentile children.
And the posters attacked him for no apparent reason other
than that he was Jewish. The posters and the demonstrators
didn't cite anything he has said or done.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
It was just because he was a Jew. And then
it was time for the dinners, which are held on
successive nights. But sixty one, please Michael.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
The First Amendment protects the right of the students to
put anti Semitic posters on the wall are online. The
First Amendment protected the right of the students to come
out of the public streets the sidewalk next to my
house and bang drugs and make noise, but when it
comes into my deckyard, when it's disrupting an event in
my phone, there is no First Amendment right. I think
(20:13):
the core of the First Amendment is that all ideas
and views can be expressed, even very offensive ones. But
under the First Amendment there can always be a time, place,
in manner restrictions with regard to speech.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So, just as his group of sixties students began eating,
he was a stunned, I'll read it. I was stunned
to see the leader of Law Students for Justice in Palestine,
who was among the registered guests, standing up with a
microphone that she had brought, go up to steps in
the yard and began reading a speech about the plight
of the Palestinians. My wife and I immediately approached her
and asked her to stop leaving and leave the premise,
(20:47):
to stop speaking, leave the premises, the protester continued. At
one point my wife attempted to take away her microphone.
Repeatedly we said to her, you're a guest in our home,
please leave, And the student insisted I have free speech rights. Yeah,
I know, to do a speech at my private gathering
in my yard. No, you don't unless you want your
(21:08):
ass kick to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Anyway, that's the first Amendment question that he was talking about.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, getting back to uh, you know one of the
themes of the show today. Those fifty dudes who showed
up at UCLA last night and started wailing on hippies.
It f you'll pardon the paraphrasing of what happened Marxists. Yes,
not in favor of vigilanti justice. But that's what's gonna
(21:39):
happen if you don't, I mean, if authorities don't take
care of this, but you don't get to come in
my yard and start screaming about what a bad person
I am. That is not going to end well.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
So a couple of nights later, about fifteen people came
to our homie rights and stood on the free steeps,
stood on the street in front of it, and then
on the path directly next to our backyard. They chanted
loudly and at times offensively. They yelled and banged drums
to make as much noise as possible to disturb the dinner.
The event continued, This is UC Berkeley, and it's all
(22:11):
just because he was a Jew, and this is being
Actually this account is in the Atlantic. To the Atlantic's credit,
they've been cowards in the past and their lefties, but
this is too much for them, evidently, How.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Does it, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
How is this not a national story that everybody's tired
of hearing of by now? And the President has given
an Oval Office address about I mean, well, that's incredible.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Some transgender person gets misgendered and the President will stop
the country and give a speech. But one of the
most prominent Jewish scholars in America is targeted for being
a Jew. And why are we not all talking about
the nineteen thirties in Germany and Crystal Knock and the
rest of it. The professor goes on, there.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Are many of our students who are calling for the
end of Israel, the end of what they call Zionism.
I do not think that criticizing Israel is anti Semitic.
I am very critical of many of Israel's policies. But
I do think that at times the rhetoric of being
anti Zionist becomes blatantly anti Semitic. And it was said
(23:12):
by one of your reporters there were anti Semitic flyers
on the Columbia campus. There are things that have an
anti Semitic said on the Berkeley campus, and certainly the
flyers that were put up there on the boat and
board can't be seen as anything else other than anti semetric.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, right, And the best argument for this being about
being Jewish as opposed to just about the downtrodden is
that there's lots of downtrodden people being abused in lots
of ways and lots of countries. And why are you
only so angry about this one?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And to echo the sentiments of the reporter that he
just quoted, it was a National Review. I believe that
that had a really good article about the misreporting of
all of this by.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
And they point out that some of the overt unmistakable
anti Semitic stuff and pro Hamas stuff and pro October
seventh stuff, It's not like there have been two or
three examples of that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
There have been.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Dozens and dozens and dozens Next thing, go ahead, Oh sorry,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
They weren't protesting anything that I had said or done.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Their only request was.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
At the University of California did ask, which isn't in
the control of the law school or even the campus.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's to the regions that too.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Really heightened the sense that this was a protest against.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Me because I was Jewish. And the final clip, Michael.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I think what makes this issue different from the name scene.
It's deeply divided the students are. I was in college
during the Vietnam War. The students were young, largely unified
against the war. Now there's a deep division among the
students unlike anything I've seen before.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Did I miss a meeting at some point in my
life that explains why you should hate Jews like I
just I don't get where this comes from. How are
you like a privileged Berkeley student kid, which by definition
your pro and.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
This is what you're spending your anger on. What?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
How did this come from a lot of it's just
the oppressor oppressed the victim oppressor worldview. Israel is the powerful,
they're the white the white world, and they're oppressing the
poor brown people.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh, I know what to do. I know what to do.
I'm supposed to be angry about that, say the little simpletons. Yeah,
and then you got all the old.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Tropes about Jewish people and the rest of it that
have come and gone through history. You know, whether in
Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, or a hundred other places.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
That's one of them. Yeah, that's yeah, that's the other folks.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, wow, Wow, Jack enjoying playing with fire. I'm enjoying
listening to it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Go ahead, any more.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Of your your little chuckles for us, your little chuckles.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I like that one. I'll tell you what. That one's accurate.
That one needs to be studied by science.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh boy, again, you're solo on this one.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Short People, of course, is what I'm talking about. I
can't drive, but got no reason to live. I played
that for my kids there day. Katie's probably never heard
that song. You ever heard Randy Newman's Short People, Katie?
That was long before your time? No, I have not. Yeah,
my kids were pretty hilarious. Short People got No Reason
to Live. It's a Randy Newman song and it's it's
(26:34):
pretty hilarious. I played that for my kids. They couldn't
believe that was a hit song in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Tongue in cheek. Of course, he is sympathetic to them plight.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I don't think so. I think you hated the short People.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Sounds like this.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
We'll give you a couple of verses, because it is
pretty funny that it ever existed, and.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Newman after that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Oh man, is he fantastic?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Short?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
No reason, no reason, no reason out landish. I'm sure
if we were doing talk radio in the seventies, we'd
have talked about this for an hour.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Take care of calls, walk around telling big, big lies.
You can't trust me. See no welcome that shoe.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's the part of my kid's life. They got little
noses and tiny little teeth. The short person, I am offending,
and they wear little shoes on their tight and there's
there with their their nost little feet or whatever he says.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
There aren't no short people are on here anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
My teas for next segment was don't judge, don't judge,
don't when it comes to judging, I have one word,
don't explain that coming up, among other things, stay here,
armstrong and getty.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
This is an epic story, coldsmic propotion. The bad guys
are closing.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Nope, we're gonna beat it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Nothing like a good twist. Who doesn't love a twist?
So that's enough of that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's from the new movie Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling,
which looks pretty good, and my son wants to see it,
so I think we're gonna go see it in the
theater this weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And that's what why.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Ryan Gosling was on Saturday Night Live hosting a couple
of weeks ago to promote his new big movie, and
he was hilarious on Saturday Night Live. He's been nominated
for three Oscars, and I remember was watching him, thinking, Uh,
how does some people get born like that? He looks
like an underwear model. He's hilarious, He sings, he plays instruments,
he dances, he does all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And this gets to my don't judge thing that I
was teasing earlier.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
And I always remember the first paragraph of The Great Gatsby,
in which paraphrasing, I don't have it memorized word for word,
but it's more or less. My dad always told me,
before you judge, somebody realized they may not have had
all the advantages that you had, or disadvantages if you
look at it the other way. So Ryan Gosling, who
seems like he's had every break in life. For some reason,
(29:30):
I went to Wikipedia to read about him. He's only
forty three, three Academy Award nominations and all that and
all the success. He was in ken In Barbie, and
he was in La La Lan and blah blah blah blah.
He had a miserable upbringing, like just miserable. His parents
got divorced really really young. He got bullied all the
time for a variety of reasons, bad schools, moved around
(29:51):
a lot, never learned to read.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Hated childhood.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
He said, he hated every aspect of childhood the whole time,
wo around all these different things. He ends up on
the Mickey mouse Club because he is insanely talented, but
his mom flaked off somehow. Justin Timberlake is his Justin
Timberlake's mom is his guardian because he ended up living
with the Timberlakes when they were both on Mickey mouse
(30:15):
Club and his parents freaked out, flaked out and everything
like that. But anyway, you wouldn't unless you had a
horrible childhood. Also, I wouldn't trade my life for his life.
Having read about it, and just you know, we all
get we all get Delta deck of whatever. But I
don't know. I just thought it was interesting from the
people who seem like they got it now, and maybe
(30:37):
they do have it now, doesn't mean, no, it's always
been easy or the other way.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. Envy is just it's never a productive.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Emotion.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
You can admire somebody or think that lifestyle looks appealing
to me, I'm gonna work hard and get ahead and
live that lifestyle. I mean, that's that's not envy per se,
something different. But yeah, you never know what's going on
behind somebody's eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Obviously, obviously a guy like him was handed by God
a tremendous amount of talent that allows you to do
certain things.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But again, I wouldn't trade childhoods by any means whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And then I started watching in the documentary last night
about Johnny Manzel, who unless you're a football fan, you
wouldn't know. He was a first college player to ever
win the Heisman as a freshman when he was in college,
and he was just so amazingly talented and everything like that,
got into the NFL and.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Absolutely blew up his life.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
They're drinking and drugs and bad choices and hanging around
with bad people and just blew it off. So he
was handed all of these talents and skills and everything
like that and absolutely destroyed it through bad choices I
don't know. It seems they sort are, though, I guess
because I'm raising kids. I think about this a lot.
But the choices you make and how you deal with
the hand you're delt Man is the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, I'm such a huge, huge fan of and has
been so helpful to me as an individual and as
a parent. The opposite of what has been taught to
kids for a couple of generations, now heightened lukianof I
have written about it a lot, but the philosophy of
right now, what you've had, this crap happen to you,
(32:21):
Somebody hurt your feelings, whatever, maybe you had bad parents, whatever, Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Now what not to be backward focused? You have to
deal with it, you have to heal, but don't be
backward focused because you've got to do something today and tomorrow.
What will those things be? That has to be your focus,
and that's a healthy focus. Final thought with I think
(32:51):
that's my favorite one, and I don't know why. Here's
your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Wouldn't that be joyful? How about Michael Ege or a
technical director?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
First Michael, you know I used to judge people that
were vegetarian.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I hate to say it, but now that I've.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Had to change my diet and eat a lot more vegetables,
I see.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Now most of them are pains in the asses.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well wow, there's a contrasts there.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And accurate true, one hundred percent guaranteed true. Do you
feel better even the vegetable diet most I Do you
notice the difference?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yes, yes, I do. Well.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Moving on from Jack's anchor problems, Katie Green, do you
have a final thought for us?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
One thing I'll never do is be a vegetarian. But
my final thoughts is I just purged a bunch of
T shirts, got rid of them, and now.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I have to go buy a Fuzzy Bear T shirt from.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Armstrong getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And I'm adding back to the collection that.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I just tried to get rid of.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So if you didn't listen to our one of the show,
perhaps you should Armstrong and Giddy on demand.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The podcast Jack A.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Final Thoughtful featured a new cast member named Fuzzy Bear.
They're gonna want on a T shirt? Michael, I got
another question from my final thought are healthy foods starting
to taste better to you. Yes, that's what I hear happens. Yes,
they are tasting better, like your body adjusts, so it
doesn't have to be as sweet as candy or something
like that to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Absolutely, they sid a.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Really sweet taste really bad to me, no interesting, or
really really salty. Your tolerance for salty builds over time.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Too, and it's bad for your hails anyway. Why is
salt bad for you? What's it do for you? Raise
your blood pressure?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't eat much sauce. I eat hardly any salt.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Are you sure? Do you eat prepared foods?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah? But I never buns of sauce. Sure, I understand that,
but I never. So you eat a lot of salt?
Answer the question? But I never even a question. But
I'm just yelling. But I never put salt on anything
that's meaningless.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Okay, Armstrong, you getty wraping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's like if somebody like uses lots of heroin in
their burgers, he says, I don't take caro win. I
just eat burgers full of heroin. Where are you getting
these heroin burgers? They're delicious and relaxed. Oh my god,
did you do your part? I did go to armstrong
a getdy dot com. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Get that new T shirt. It's very funny. See tomorrow.
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Two individuals the Committee is particularly concerned about, I'm Strong
and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
This has to stop, and it has to stop like
the day before yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Everyone knows that no, I'm not making this up. This
is real. Yeah. Absolutely, I don't know what tell's going
on here, and the DJ needs to get off its
ass and investigate.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
If the dramatics could come down just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Well, historically that's true with stars. The key word in
that phrase is the word thank you all very much,
Armstrong and Getty.
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