October 22, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Boulder, CO vs oil companies & climate change
- Facial circumcision & Sora app
- Mamdani as mayor threatens NYC's Jews
- AI replacing humans & Jack argues with Grok about Yoko Ono
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
More than a dozen airports across the country have refused
to play a video of Homeland.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Security Secretary Christy Nome at TSA checkpoints.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It just really riles up the dogs. I had forgotten
about that story. Take me a second. That's a hell
of that's a funny joke. I get jokes.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
A couple of words about the whole climate change thing.
Oh you know what, before I get to that, it's
become clear to me. I don't know who blew the
whistle or what, but the Democrat media establishment has gotten
per mission or looked around and given it self permission
to say our left flank are lunatics and are going
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to ruin the party.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And we got to stop that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
New York Times with a big article about that today,
and Jonathan Martin, the senior political communist for Politico out
with a piece and titled something or other, what is it?
Democrats keep falling for political fantasies? When will they learn?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Well, that's interesting? And then the Wall Street Journal which
leans right. They've got an opinion piece on, hey, Democrats,
wake up, the mainstream.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Media is doing you more harm than good. Yeah, and yeah,
it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, somebody, whether spoken or unspoken, said hey.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now, now we got to do this. Maybe it was
after the big No Kings protest and everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Just laughed at it except the people who were there
and charged up about it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So speaking of that sort of thing, National Review had
a piece about the mayor, the woke mayor of Boulder, Colorado,
Aaron Brockett. He's made so called social justice his whole
public career. A website of Boulder which is a very
woke down it says, as part of the city's commitment
to advancing racial equity, Mayor Brocket has attended the advancing
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racial equity, role of government and bias in microaggression trainings, so.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You can trust him.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What makes no sense, they write in the National Review,
is that this mayor wants to have the powdery make national,
even global energy policy.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So he has filed.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Suit against oil companies saying the problems of fossil fuels
have hurt Boulder, and therefore the energy companies owe Boulder.
And they point out the suit and others like it
is preposterous on his face and threatens our economic well
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being in constitutional order. But the Colorado Supreme Court has
allowed the suit to go forward despite the fact that
it is a clear attempt to supersede federal environmental regulations.
In the US Supreme Court, it's now considering whether to
grant cert in the case and take up the novel
and consequential issues it presents. A Boulder has asserted specifically
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that the oil companies have committed a public nuisance. Boulder
has asserted claims for public and private nuisance trespass, unjust enrichment,
and civil conspiracy. Anyway, it doesn't what their claiming, doesn't
fit any of the legal definitions, and it's ridiculous that
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the Colorado Supreme Court let it go. But that is
the state of woke environmental well not in even environmental
like climate change activism. And I came across this virtually
at the same time that article came out, and it's
written by Ted Nordhaus, who if you are super into
the climate change thing, you might recognize his name. He's
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a climate expert, a scientist and author, and he's written
a piece for the Free Press entitled I thought climate
change would.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
End the world. I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
My worldview was built on apocalyptic models sprung from faulty assumptions.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It always really gets my attention when people go against
their own previous position, because you can really trust them,
most likely on that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
In a lot of cases.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, if they're so convinced of their new point of
view and concerned that they had led people wrong, that
they're saying, Hey, remember when I said that I was wrong,
I was totally wrong. Yeah, that makes an impression really Interestingly,
he co wrote his big two thousand book Breakthrough with
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Michael Schellenberger. Anyway, the great to investigative journalist. I used
to argue that if the world kept burning fossil fuels
at current rates, catastrophe was virtually assured. Quote, the heating
of the Earth will cause the sea levels to rise
and the Amazon to collapse, and, according to scenarios commissioned
by the Pentagon, will trigger a series of wars over
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the basic resources like food and water. No, that was
back in oh seven, right, he says, I no longer
believe this hyperbole. At the time, I, like most climate experts,
thought that business as usual admissions would lead to around
five degrees of warming by the end of this century.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That assumption was never plausible.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It assumed high population growth, high economic growth, and slow
technological change. But fertility rates have been falling, global economic
growth is slowing, and the global economy has been decarbonizing
for decades.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Nor is there a good reason to.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Think that the combination of these three trends could possibly
be sustained in concert. And he goes into some of
the practicalities of economic growth is strongly associated with falling
fertility rates. Technological change is the primary driver of long
term economic growth.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Blah, we're talking about fertility in our one and how
Europe going the wrong direction by a lot. But yeah,
we're probably at the about the peak of world population.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And then it's going to start going down. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And he points about how it points out how the
worst case scenarios are much much less bad.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Now. I'm glad, I come it quietly.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, what a goalposts And he says this is all
the more confounding given the good news extends well beyond
projections of long term warming, despite close to a degree
and a half of warming over the last century global mortality.
Listen to this folks, global mortality from climate and weather
extremes has fallen by more than ninety six percent on
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a per capita basis. Was that because world is don't
get hit in the head with a falling beam in
a hurricane, because we just build things better?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Is it a lot of matter? There's Yeah, there's a
lot of that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You could make the argument that modernity, which has been
fueled by fossil fuels, has been way, way, way better
for protecting human lives than any downside, which I think
is his point. He said, the world is on track
this year for what is almost certainly the lowest level
of climate related mortality in recorded human history.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, Wow, that's quite a stat given the fact that
you know, if there's a hurricane, climate change got an
eight dead and because of climate change. But we're going
to have the lowest number of people dead due to
climate since they've been keeping track.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Experts say the tornado across Missouri is an example of
climate change, when any responsible scientists will tell you it
is impossible to attribute an individual weather phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
To climate change anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Just to finish his thought, yes, the economic cost of
climate extremes continue to rise, but This is almost entirely
due to affluence, population growth, and the migration of global
populations toward climate hazards, mainly cities and coastal regions and floodplains.
So the far more interesting question is not why my
colleagues and I at the Breakthrough Institute have revised ours
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about climate risk, but why so many progressive environmentalists have not.
And you know it's such a good piece. Well, I
got two reasons, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
One you're in on the making money part of it,
so you don't want to go away. And then two
he was your religion, and who wants to give up
their your religion?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. He talks about the narrative. The Harem scaram al
Gore narrative conflicts with exist thing evidence, including data collected
by political scientists and former environmental studies professor Roger Pilke Jr.
His work going back to the mid nineties showed again
and again that the normalized economic costs of climate related disasters,
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when adjusted for wealth and economic growths or growth, were
not increasing despite the documented warming of the climate. Here's
the part that might tie back to yesterday's show, when
we were talking about the great feminization of America and
how cancel culture is a very feminine phenomenon. He writes,
The reason for my shift in opinion wasn't only that
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Pilky had produced strong evidence that undermined a key claim
of the climate advocacy community. It wasn't even witnessing Pilky's cancelation,
which was brutal. It was rather that I came to
understand why you couldn't find a climate change signal in
the disaster lost at it's quite close to a degree
and a half of warming over the last century. And
then he goes into some technical stuff that takes a
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little bit of time to explain, but I just appreciated
him reminding us of the brutal ostracization and cancelation that
takes place in science if you have quote unquote the
wrong opinion, and that is the most diametrically uns you know,
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against science thing you could possibly do in science is
to ostracize someone for disagreeing and saying, hey, we need
to take another look at the data or collect more data.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That's an example of.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What I can never remember her name pretty obviously, though
you were Helen Andrews was writing about in The Great Feminization.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You were not going to keep your job in academia
or get grants in academia if you were going to say,
you know, I'm not sure about this whole climate change thing.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, it's a good piece. I think you might
get Paywalld. We'll post it at Armstrong and getty dot
com under hot links and again for the emptieenth time.
If you did not hear the segment on the Great
Feminization yesterday, it's October twenty first hour two and October
and also the twenty first hot links has Helen Andrews
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essay if you'd like to read it yourself.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
What do we have there? Michael Prize Picks. Yeah, should
have gone more on Luka Doncic last night. Maybe for
the whole season. Price Picks is an opportunity to take
your strong sports opinions and turn them into cash, whether
we're talking World Series which starts US Friday, or obviously
the NFL season. We're right in the midst of it
and basketball just started. Yeah, I got a full slate
(11:04):
of basketball games tonight. All you do is pick two
players or more and say less or more on their
stat projections.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
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picks at today and use the code Armstrong to get
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after you play your first five dollars lineup.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's automatic, you don't need to win. You use the
code of Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
They give you fifty dollars worth of lineups after you
play just a five dollars lineup.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And Price Picks has something called stacks where you can
pick the same player like Steph Curry. You could do points,
three pointers and assists for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Right, and you can combine players from different sports free lineup.
So you know you got a theory on the Thursday
night football and basketball game, go ahead. Prize Picks use
that code Armstrong for that fifty dollars in lineups after
you play first five dollars lineup prize packs.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's good to be right.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Why are so many people getting what influencers are calling
facial circumcisions?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Why does that become a thing? Did not see that coming?
Who would?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Who would have predicted? I was going to say that
nobody the old f c.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
FC.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Why are people getting them? It's pretty obvious if you
think about it for a second.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
And other news on the way stay here at see.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Do I get your thoughts in the game. I hate
this team. I was born into this and I'm not
gonna ever. I'm always a Jets fan, but like I
just I hate this team.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Somebody interviewed a fan after the Jets game the other day.
You don't have to be a fan of the NFL
to hear this. The Jets are own seven. They're the
only winless team and they're uh they're looking like, according
to experts, like one of the all time worst teams.
Not just not just bad, but like shockingly bad.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So yeah, there you go. They need new honors trade
for a new owner. Before we get to facial circumcisions.
What was the other thing, I don't even remember what
the other thing was.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Sometimes I think you bring things up just to shock.
I don't appreciate it. It's childish.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Well, do facial circumcisions first, Yeah, and yes, I do
bring things up just to shock.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But it's the name of it is shocking.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It's basically a facelift, but it's talking about the popularity
of it because of ozimpic face, people losing weight and
having all that extra skin and this influencer making the argument, like,
you cut your toenails if they're too long. Why wouldn't
you cut off skin if you got too much? I mean,
I don't understand why this is even a question.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Got good point.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Wow it is. I don't know if it's considered major surgery,
but it is surgery. Oh yeah, it's a pretty serious deal.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm going to be at a plastic surgeon today as
a matter of fact, getting my stitches out of my nose.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Maybe I get a booba lift while I'm in. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
It is a problem though, When you lose weight, you
look older. Off you often look worse your face anyway,
and so that's a drag. I mean, you know you
put in all that effort and everything like that to
make your body look better, or you're cared about health.
I don't care about health. I just want to look better.
But why I've elected to stay porky.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It really fills in the lines, it does.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It absolutely does you look worse when you lose weight,
which sucks. Another one on Nature's in God's cruel trick?
Why does God hate is so so?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Sora is one of the worst things to happen to mankind.
We are ahead of that direction. Anyway, that's the new
social media app that is all AI videos. Like my son,
my thirteen year old, he even set himself, I gotta
limit myself on this because it's just too damned entertaining
scrolling through all the AI videos that you posted every
single day. But I saw one last night. I got
some site that gives you the best five soro videos
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of the day, and it takes a total of a
minute to watch all five of them as long as
you stop. What's the big deal but stopping, and it's
like eating one potato chip.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But what I like so much.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
With baseball season going on right now, I don't know
what year it was, it looked like mid seventies playoff baseball.
It's probably Yankees, Dodgers or Red Sox or whoever. And
Elvis is at the plate and he's in full. He's
in full, and it's a wide shot and it's a
it's he's in full like karate gear and the red
scarf and the sunglasses. Anyway, Uh, three and three and
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two in the count on the King and oh he
got a hold of that one and it goes deepen
into home run and he geeks rounds the bases and
he's pumping his fists and then they even have the
post game anywhere. Yeah, yeah, I was just trying to
get the bat on it and get a good hit.
I was all just trying to get a.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Good child freaking hilarious and just so incredibly real looking good.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I know who comes up with these ideas, They're gonna
run out of them eventually, right of ideas well, and
for free.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
In roughly twenty five seconds last night, I reached out
to Jack to remind me of the name of an
app and I took a picture of my wife and
I in Britain.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We are in a.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Punt which is like a gondola, taking a little ride
in Cambridge, and I just typed in and again this
took what thirty forty five seconds, an animation of the
photograph of us in the boat leaping into the water.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
For free, right in seconds. You gotta fooled me on
that second page. But I'll tell you, I just want
to get a stick on it and see if I
could get it out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You got you got serious stuff. I had had a
hang out. Wull count.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
You gotta protect the play jack, Okay, Wow, we got
more craziness from Mumdanni, who's going to be the first
communist mayor of a major city in America. Major editorial,
Mamdani will make New York unsafe for New York's Jews.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Wow, remember that front page stuff?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Remember that story we had last week questioning whether Jews
could continue to live in Great Britain?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Right, they're wondering and maybe not more. Is an Islamist
as well as a Communist. It's the Red Green Alliance,
which we've talked about before in one person.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
That's probably a bigger threat, right, isn't it Islamism?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, because you can boot communists out of power unless
they like get actual power. But it's very difficult to
dislodge Islamists because they'll.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Kill you for trying. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I don't know if he has the power to bring
many of his communist dreams true just because he's the mayor,
but he could do a lot of things around allowing
crazy versions of Islam.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
To run wild in New York. Yeah, yep, agree? What
the heck?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We We have tolerated ourselves into a terrible situation, a
toxic tolerance. Gad Sad has written a book about that
recently the Great Professor about how excessive tolerance will doom
a society.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's so obvious.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I don't understand why everybody doesn't get it. If you
were tolerant of a group that's intolerant, they will take over.
It's not complicated correct Anyway, We've got a lot of
stuff on the way. If you missed the secondent, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
But he would be I would say he would be
the leader of the party. He's not humor Schumer shot.
He's shot. This poor guy. I feels sorry for him,
known for a long time, but he's he's I think
he's mentally good. He's been beat up by young radical lunatics,
and I think Chuck Schumer is he's gotten I really do.
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I think he's probably not.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Going to run.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
It shows that he's losing in every pole. Now, this
is hard. You know, he wants to meet with me.
He's sort of hard to be with the guy after
I make a statement like that. But I'm just giving
them back. I think Chuck is.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Probably kind of hard to meet with a guy after
a making statement like that. But I'm just giving you
the facts. He's gone, Wow, hey, I'm looking up at
the TV. Edie Falco and Jeremy Renner have a new
show coming out of some sort. But I didn't know
he was recovered enough from when his snowblower ran over
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him that he was like sitting on the couch promoting
new shows and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay, glad he when was that?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Was that a couple of years a few years ago?
But he was like really really he nearly died. I
didn't know he was telling Okay, it looks to be fun.
One other thing I wanted to mention before we get
back into the bulk of this segment. Interesting AI story
that just came out breaking news that Zuckerberg is going
to lay off about six hundred AI workers, but the
why is dang interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And Jess and he.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Replaced him with AI. That's kind of funny. I'm more
scared about AI having read this article than I was before.
And I was already so this mom Donnie character. A
lot of people talk about him being communist and what
that would mean for New York and is like kind
of the face of the Democratic Party. That's what Trump
was talking about there, that Schumer's not the face of
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the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's Mundani.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
He's gotten so other people are not just worried about
his communist views.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It's this I believe Zoron Mamdani poses a danger to
the security of the New York Jewish community. A vote
for Sliwa, whatever his merits, is a vote for Mamdani.
There is a path to victory, but it means that
every eligible voter must vote.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Popular New York rabbi there who almost certainly always votes Democrats.
So it's not like he's a Republican most likely, and
he's scared for the Jewish community of Mandani wins.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The Wall Street Journal just published an editorial by Alicia Weissel,
who's the former chief information officer for Goldman Sachs is
a founding partner in a big tech company. He's also
the chairman of the Elifeil Foundation. But big lead editorial
in the paper today a Mamdani Mayor Mayoralty Mayor. Mayor
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Mamdani being mayor mayor threatens New York's.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Jews is the title.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
By propagating lies about occupation, apartheid, and genocide, he helps
promote anti Semitism, and he talks it's actually quite sad.
Most of this column is about conflicts. These are conversations
I said, say, he's had with a good old friend
of his who has taken in nothing but leftist coverage
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of the conflict in Gaza. And this guy is completely
convinced of occupation, apartheid, genocide, that that October seventh was
justified and the rest of it, because he's been, you know,
just lapping up this incredibly bizarrely unfair, one sided coverage.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
That's interesting that that would happen in New York, the
biggest collection of Jewish people on earth outside of Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, And his point is, and I hate to summarize
it because it's quite eloquent, but his point is that
sort of pitching of that version of history inevitably causes
people to feel anger and hatred toward Jews, and a
hall he's asking for his affair hearing mister Mumdanni blamed
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Hamas's butchery on the occupation the day after October seventh, while.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Israel was reeling. He omitted.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
In the various quotes that Israel pulled out of Gaza
in two thousand and five and that Hamas built rockets
and tunnels with billions of dollars in aid. Took the aid,
They belt rockets and tunnels. And then he goes into
some of the history of Israel that his friend was
completely ignorant of. And you know, I can get to
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his point. Mister Mumdanni's lies in endangered Jews everywhere, incendiary,
false and deadly.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
They spread hatred.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
More than half of New York's hate crimes last year
were anti Semitic. One attacker shouting free Palestine stabbed a Jew.
Another tried to run Jews over with a car. I
was assaulted, he writes last week by anti Israel marchers
that the kind of rally mister Mndannie attended, then encouraged,
and then endorsed only tacitly as he came under pressure.
The signs read glory to the martyrs, violence his resistance,
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and killed the Jews at the demonstration. Mumdanni attended. It's
interesting that those editorials and statements are coming out at
the same time.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And I mentioned this little earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Both Politico and The New York Times have big like
lead pieces today saying to the left, we've got to
abandon our left flank. They're too crazy. They're killing our party.
They're killing our electoral chances, and it's funny. The New
York Times has to point out that all the mistakes
that Republicans have made, frittering away winnable races in a
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variety of states by nominating nut job candidates.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh and they're right, by the way, they're right in.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The New York Times, it's funny they that's the spoonful
of sugar that helps the medicine go down, because then
they turned to saying to their lefty raiders were killing
ourselves with these nut jobs. Anyway, I thought that was
interesting in Politico with a similar piece. Evidently the words
gotten around. It's okay to say it out loud. Now
I think that's really good. There's another step that needs
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to be taken, though, when you're talking about Islamists, because
so many people have swallowed the lie that to criticize
fundamentalist Islam or Islamism, which is the spreading of Islam
as a political and economic system. To criticize that is
somehow bigotry, that you're quote unquote criticizing a religion. And
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by the way, in America, you can criticize a religion
all you want. We get to it's in the First Amendment,
so go ahead. But I'm really really hoping that there's
been some sort of damn break. Oh. Another great example,
the Feminization of America article that's getting so much attention
that we talked about yesterday. In a little bit today,
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I'm feeling like there's an increased permission structure for people
to say, you know, the wo crap.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I never bought it. I was just afraid to say.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
So.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Could this be the great preference cascade that we've talked
about before.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I don't know. We'll live to see it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I hate to be too optimistic because grim determination is
kind of our mindset around here.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But there are signs.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So why did Zuckerberg fire six hundred AI people at Facebook?
It's pretty danged interesting to get to that coming up.
I did want to mention, so I brought this up
the other day. My son, one of his favorite musicians
currently is this guy named lul Yachti and Lil YACHTI
was playing locally over the weekend and a big giant
fight broke out and they had to shut down the concert.
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And it's really popular in this kind of music, whatever
you call that kind of music, to have these open
mosh pit areas in front of the stage, and they
get really violent and lots of people get hurt and
nearly crushed to death and all these different things. And
that's one of the appeals to like my son and
his kids, who were as like gentrified, you know, suburban, ye,
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middle upper class kids as you can possibly get.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Why do you think that is danger adjacent?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
The reason I brought this up again was somebody texted this,
it's like the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. You
want to be there and kind of be danger adjacent.
You don't want to be stabbed by a bowl yourself.
Do you want to be able to say you did
it and kind of you know, lived in edgy. I
guess it's like young men on going off to war
back when that was more of a thing.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And well, in the great feminization of American society, boys
are taught over and over again, like vigorous activity even
is forbidden on the playground because somebody might get hurt,
never mind like violent games and full contact sports, and
so they they're attracted to him.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah, I think it's very much the same mindset of
that going to the Running of the Bulls. Yeah, if
I go to if I go into these concerts with him,
I'm sitting far away, watching from above and hoping he's
not very close.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
There ought to be a designated dad section, mom section exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'll watch it on a monitor somewhere.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
U Zuckerberg's really big on trying to create not just
artificial intelligence, but artificial superintelligence. Whatce I've been reading about
that will absolutely ruin mankind. And that's what he's spending
his money on now, among other things. On the way
stay here, Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
According to this New York Times report and these internal documents,
Amazon's investments in AI are going to allow it to
hire six hundred thousand fewer humans by twenty three, twenty
thirty three. I should say, despite the fact that they
plan to double the amount of products they are selling,
seventy five percent of work in those warehouses automated. That
is the eventual plan, And according to the New York Times,
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Amazon is actually developing comm strategies for how to handle
the backlash in these communities where jobs might be lost.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Six hundred thousand jobs will be eliminated at Amazon by
AI in the next seven and a half years. Wow
Wow is right, that is really something. Yeah, different AI story.
(28:59):
The headline just breaking now that Mark Zuckerberg is planning
to lay off. He sent out letters today They're going
to lay off six hundred AI employees. But it's a
little misleading.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I mean, if.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Your knee jerk reaction is that AI isn't panning out
for him something or he's not as engaged in it. No,
he's replacing a bunch of lower tier AI employees that
they had hired a bunch of in a mad rush
to try to catch up to chat, GPT and Elon
and others. And then he since and we talked about
(29:35):
this at the time, he went on a spending spree
this past summer. In JUNI invested fourteen point three billion
dollars in something called Scale Ai, and he went and
he plucked some of the best AI minds in the
world from other companies. He recruited top researchers from open Ai,
that's Altman's thing, Google, Microsoft, And as we talked about
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at the time, pay packages that for some of these dudes,
and they're almost all dudes number in the hundreds of
millions of dollars. Makes Sho Hayo Tani seem like nothing.
I mean serious crazy money. Come work for me, leave
open AI. I'll pay you two hundred million dollars. Great
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googly moogly. That is how dedicated he is to try
and be That is funny, Katie, I don't blame you
for laughing. Google m mooglely is a funny expression. Zuckerberg is
doubling down and most of them are in. So he's
got four different segments of AI he's working on. I
won't bog down in that. But one of the segments
is super intelligence, which doesn't get enough talk. I was
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just listening to a podcast about it the other day.
People use the blanket term AI, and then there's the AGI,
which is artificial general intelligence when it can be as
smart as a human being. Basically, super intelligence is the
idea of AI being just vastly smarter than human beings
have ever been and just a completely different level of
being able to learn fast and do things. And when
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that happens, if it happens soon, I seriously can't even
imagine how mankind survive revives it. There's some people think
that it can't happen. I'm kind of hoping it can't.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, Well, Zuckerberg is Satan I revealed that on the
show a number of years ago.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
You know, you do say that a lot, But I
don't think he'd. I think he'd the impulse to want
to be first in and get to this before Elon
or somebody else does would override his I wonder what
this will do through the economy or society or yeah,
(31:37):
that sort of thing. And Honey, might be right, either
I do it or somebody else does it, And I'd
rather meet be me, which is you know, might just
be true.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, either way, we're doomed. Planet of the apes or
beavers or ants or something is on the way.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Has there anybody ever been anything even close to this
adjusted for inflation, where something came along where companies were
paying hundreds of millions of dollars per employee to have
the best talent.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I don't think so. I mean that's stunning. Yeah, And
is it a bubble? Nobody's sure about that. Either. Nobody's
sure about that.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
And it could be, but you got a lot of
the smartest people in the world who clearly think it's not.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I hope they're wrong, right, Although part of being in
a bubble is you must swear up and down it's
not a bubble.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Right, so who knows? Who knows? I guess we'll all
find out together, or.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Or if the Lord sees fit to send a semi
truck my way today as I crossed the street to
just let me know how.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Coch close, friends of the Armstrong and Getty Show had
him on a couple of weeks ago. Craig got Walls
and Tim Sanderfer are both big believers that, like every
other technological advance, this will create more different jobs in
its wake, so you don't have to worry about all
the jobs lost. Maybe I don't believe it. I don't
see what AI is going to create in terms of
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jobs to the tune of like the six hundred thousand
people Amazon's going to lay off in the next half
dozen years or.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So, right right, Yeah, I've got to admit I think
this is the one exception of the great rule.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But I'm intrigued by the question. I don't know that
I'm right.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Nobody knows if they're right about any of it. No,
which is the fun part, isn't it all.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
I know that I use AI regularly, and I'm just
absolutely amazed by it. I talked about as buying a
computer for my son, and I used GROC and chat
GPT and said, this is what my son wants to do,
which computer should I get? And then it gave me
a couple of choices and said is he going to
do this or that? And I said, no, he doesn't
do that, but he does this. And then it just
kept narrowing it down in a way that it had
taken me all day long to do on my own
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or even with Google. And I did the same thing
looking for a coffee maker. I mean, the amount of
information it gave me and boiling it all down was amazing.
Then he got the weirdness of Groc in my car,
but she yesterday? What did I ask Groc in the
car yesterday? Kind of got an argument with Grok, which
my son thought was hilarious because it's a woman.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
We were listening to a Beatles song and then Henry said,
is Yoko Ono still alive? And I said, I don't know, hey, Groc,
is a Yoko Onna still alive? And Groc said, oh,
you know it, She's still alive and she's still cranking
out art better than ever. And I said, yeah, I've
never really been a fan of Yoko on and groc said, well,
she's been on the the avant garde of writing and
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painting and music, so many people do respect her work.
I thought it was kind of interesting that Grok automatically
took the hippie view of Yoko Ono. And I said, well,
we will have to agree to disagree, and she said,
that's fine, I'll talk to you later. But Henry said
I should have called her a bee, you stupid bee.
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I don't know why I don't do that. It's weird.
I'm so convinced, like, look at you. You're a polled
by this. It's a freaking computer voice. There's no human
being on the list. Why wouldn't I say, you stupid me?
It's evil.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Don't have me evil. Pass your lips.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
What it's a computer, it's trying to argue me into
liking Yoko Ono.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Why don't you drop an N bomb on it? Wow?
I know what would happen if you did that? I mean,
probably report you to something. Probably would. I'm just no, no, no,
I need to have to send adjacent I need.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
To test this more and push back more. You're just stupid, Grock,
You're stupid. Yokono sucks or she's anything. She's married to
John Lennon. I'd see what she said to that.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
If this segment of the podcast is not labeled that
Jack argues with Groc about Yoko Ono, I am resigning
my post. We will have to agree to disagree. If
you had that on your bingo card. Congratulations. Oh you
know what I left out one of my big articles
about how the Democrat Party realizes it's gone crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Maybe we can hit that next hour.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
We did twenty hours of this so much being Held
against My will song and dance every week. If you
miss a segment or an hour and you'll want to
hear it, you can get in podcast form. You just
look for Armstrong and Getty on demand. You should subscribe.
Oh yeah, absolutely should.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
And you should listen to the great feminization discussion in
yesterday's podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Hour two changed a lot of minds.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
More than a dozen airports across the country have refused
to play a video of Homeland.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Security Secretary Christy Nome at TSA checkpoints.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It just really riles up the dogs. I had forgotten
about that story. Take me a second. That's a hell
of that's a funny joke. I get jokes.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
A couple of words about the whole climate change thing.
Oh you know what, before I get to that, it's
become clear to me. I don't know who blew the
whistle or what, but the Democrat media establishment has gotten
per mission or looked around and given it self permission
to say our left flank are lunatics and are going
(01:07):
to ruin the party.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And we got to stop that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
New York Times with a big article about that today,
and Jonathan Martin, the senior political communist for Politico out
with a piece and titled something or other, what is it?
Democrats keep falling for political fantasies? When will they learn?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Well, that's interesting? And then the Wall Street Journal which
leans right. They've got an opinion piece on, hey, Democrats,
wake up, the mainstream.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Media is doing you more harm than good. Yeah, and yeah,
it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, somebody, whether spoken or unspoken, said hey.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now, now we got to do this. Maybe it was
after the big No Kings protest and everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Just laughed at it except the people who were there
and charged up about it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So speaking of that sort of thing, National Review had
a piece about the mayor, the woke mayor of Boulder, Colorado,
Aaron Brockett. He's made so called social justice his whole
public career. A website of Boulder which is a very
woke down it says, as part of the city's commitment
to advancing racial equity, Mayor Brocket has attended the advancing
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racial equity, role of government and bias in microaggression trainings, so.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You can trust him.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What makes no sense, they write in the National Review,
is that this mayor wants to have the powdery make national,
even global energy policy.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So he has filed.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Suit against oil companies saying the problems of fossil fuels
have hurt Boulder, and therefore the energy companies owe Boulder.
And they point out the suit and others like it
is preposterous on his face and threatens our economic well
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being in constitutional order. But the Colorado Supreme Court has
allowed the suit to go forward despite the fact that
it is a clear attempt to supersede federal environmental regulations.
In the US Supreme Court, it's now considering whether to
grant cert in the case and take up the novel
and consequential issues it presents. A Boulder has asserted specifically
(03:16):
that the oil companies have committed a public nuisance. Boulder
has asserted claims for public and private nuisance trespass, unjust enrichment,
and civil conspiracy. Anyway, it doesn't what their claiming, doesn't
fit any of the legal definitions, and it's ridiculous that
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the Colorado Supreme Court let it go. But that is
the state of woke environmental well not in even environmental
like climate change activism. And I came across this virtually
at the same time that article came out, and it's
written by Ted Nordhaus, who if you are super into
the climate change thing, you might recognize his name. He's
(03:59):
a climate expert, a scientist and author, and he's written
a piece for the Free Press entitled I thought climate
change would.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
End the world. I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
My worldview was built on apocalyptic models sprung from faulty assumptions.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It always really gets my attention when people go against
their own previous position, because you can really trust them,
most likely on that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
In a lot of cases.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, if they're so convinced of their new point of
view and concerned that they had led people wrong, that
they're saying, Hey, remember when I said that I was wrong,
I was totally wrong. Yeah, that makes an impression really Interestingly,
he co wrote his big two thousand book Breakthrough with
(04:48):
Michael Schellenberger. Anyway, the great to investigative journalist. I used
to argue that if the world kept burning fossil fuels
at current rates, catastrophe was virtually assured. Quote, the heating
of the Earth will cause the sea levels to rise
and the Amazon to collapse, and, according to scenarios commissioned
by the Pentagon, will trigger a series of wars over
(05:09):
the basic resources like food and water. No, that was
back in oh seven, right, he says, I no longer
believe this hyperbole. At the time, I, like most climate experts,
thought that business as usual admissions would lead to around
five degrees of warming by the end of this century.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That assumption was never plausible.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It assumed high population growth, high economic growth, and slow
technological change. But fertility rates have been falling, global economic
growth is slowing, and the global economy has been decarbonizing
for decades.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Nor is there a good reason to.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Think that the combination of these three trends could possibly
be sustained in concert. And he goes into some of
the practicalities of economic growth is strongly associated with falling
fertility rates. Technological change is the primary driver of long
term economic growth.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Blah, we're talking about fertility in our one and how
Europe going the wrong direction by a lot. But yeah,
we're probably at the about the peak of world population.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And then it's going to start going down. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And he points about how it points out how the
worst case scenarios are much much less bad.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Now. I'm glad, I come it quietly.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, what a goalposts And he says this is all
the more confounding given the good news extends well beyond
projections of long term warming, despite close to a degree
and a half of warming over the last century global mortality.
Listen to this folks, global mortality from climate and weather
extremes has fallen by more than ninety six percent on
(06:37):
a per capita basis. Was that because world is don't
get hit in the head with a falling beam in
a hurricane, because we just build things better?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Is it a lot of matter? There's Yeah, there's a
lot of that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You could make the argument that modernity, which has been
fueled by fossil fuels, has been way, way, way better
for protecting human lives than any downside, which I think
is his point. He said, the world is on track
this year for what is almost certainly the lowest level
of climate related mortality in recorded human history.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, Wow, that's quite a stat given the fact that
you know, if there's a hurricane, climate change got an
eight dead and because of climate change. But we're going
to have the lowest number of people dead due to
climate since they've been keeping track.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Experts say the tornado across Missouri is an example of
climate change, when any responsible scientists will tell you it
is impossible to attribute an individual weather phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
To climate change anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Just to finish his thought, yes, the economic cost of
climate extremes continue to rise, but This is almost entirely
due to affluence, population growth, and the migration of global
populations toward climate hazards, mainly cities and coastal regions and floodplains.
So the far more interesting question is not why my
colleagues and I at the Breakthrough Institute have revised ours
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about climate risk, but why so many progressive environmentalists have not.
And you know it's such a good piece. Well, I
got two reasons, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
One you're in on the making money part of it,
so you don't want to go away. And then two
he was your religion, and who wants to give up
their your religion?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. He talks about the narrative. The Harem scaram al
Gore narrative conflicts with exist thing evidence, including data collected
by political scientists and former environmental studies professor Roger Pilke Jr.
His work going back to the mid nineties showed again
and again that the normalized economic costs of climate related disasters,
(08:42):
when adjusted for wealth and economic growths or growth, were
not increasing despite the documented warming of the climate. Here's
the part that might tie back to yesterday's show, when
we were talking about the great feminization of America and
how cancel culture is a very feminine phenomenon. He writes,
The reason for my shift in opinion wasn't only that
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Pilky had produced strong evidence that undermined a key claim
of the climate advocacy community. It wasn't even witnessing Pilky's cancelation,
which was brutal. It was rather that I came to
understand why you couldn't find a climate change signal in
the disaster lost at it's quite close to a degree
and a half of warming over the last century. And
then he goes into some technical stuff that takes a
(09:25):
little bit of time to explain, but I just appreciated
him reminding us of the brutal ostracization and cancelation that
takes place in science if you have quote unquote the
wrong opinion, and that is the most diametrically uns you know,
(09:48):
against science thing you could possibly do in science is
to ostracize someone for disagreeing and saying, hey, we need
to take another look at the data or collect more data.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That's an example of.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What I can never remember her name pretty obviously, though
you were Helen Andrews was writing about in The Great Feminization.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You were not going to keep your job in academia
or get grants in academia if you were going to say,
you know, I'm not sure about this whole climate change thing.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Obviously.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, it's a good piece. I think you might
get Paywalld. We'll post it at Armstrong and getty dot
com under hot links and again for the emptieenth time.
If you did not hear the segment on the Great
Feminization yesterday, it's October twenty first hour two and October
and also the twenty first hot links has Helen Andrews
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essay if you'd like to read it yourself.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
What do we have there? Michael Prize Picks. Yeah, should
have gone more on Luka Doncic last night. Maybe for
the whole season. Price Picks is an opportunity to take
your strong sports opinions and turn them into cash, whether
we're talking World Series which starts US Friday, or obviously
the NFL season. We're right in the midst of it
and basketball just started. Yeah, I got a full slate
(11:04):
of basketball games tonight. All you do is pick two
players or more and say less or more on their
stat projections.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's easy, it's fun, and if you download the prize
picks at today and use the code Armstrong to get
fifty bucks in lineups. You get fifty dollars in lineups
after you play your first five dollars lineup.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's automatic, you don't need to win. You use the
code of Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
They give you fifty dollars worth of lineups after you
play just a five dollars lineup.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And Price Picks has something called stacks where you can
pick the same player like Steph Curry. You could do points,
three pointers and assists for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Right, and you can combine players from different sports free lineup.
So you know you got a theory on the Thursday
night football and basketball game, go ahead. Prize Picks use
that code Armstrong for that fifty dollars in lineups after
you play first five dollars lineup prize packs.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's good to be right.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Why are so many people getting what influencers are calling
facial circumcisions?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Why does that become a thing? Did not see that coming?
Who would?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Who would have predicted? I was going to say that
nobody the old f c.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
FC.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Why are people getting them? It's pretty obvious if you
think about it for a second.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
And other news on the way stay here at see.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Do I get your thoughts in the game. I hate
this team. I was born into this and I'm not
gonna ever. I'm always a Jets fan, but like I
just I hate this team.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Somebody interviewed a fan after the Jets game the other day.
You don't have to be a fan of the NFL
to hear this. The Jets are own seven. They're the
only winless team and they're uh they're looking like, according
to experts, like one of the all time worst teams.
Not just not just bad, but like shockingly bad.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So yeah, there you go. They need new honors trade
for a new owner. Before we get to facial circumcisions.
What was the other thing, I don't even remember what
the other thing was.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Sometimes I think you bring things up just to shock.
I don't appreciate it. It's childish.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Well, do facial circumcisions first, Yeah, and yes, I do
bring things up just to shock.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
But it's the name of it is shocking.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It's basically a facelift, but it's talking about the popularity
of it because of ozimpic face, people losing weight and
having all that extra skin and this influencer making the argument, like,
you cut your toenails if they're too long. Why wouldn't
you cut off skin if you got too much? I mean,
I don't understand why this is even a question.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Got good point.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Wow it is. I don't know if it's considered major surgery,
but it is surgery. Oh yeah, it's a pretty serious deal.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm going to be at a plastic surgeon today as
a matter of fact, getting my stitches out of my nose.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Maybe I get a booba lift while I'm in. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
It is a problem though, When you lose weight, you
look older. Off you often look worse your face anyway,
and so that's a drag. I mean, you know you
put in all that effort and everything like that to
make your body look better, or you're cared about health.
I don't care about health. I just want to look better.
But why I've elected to stay porky.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It really fills in the lines, it does.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It absolutely does you look worse when you lose weight,
which sucks. Another one on Nature's in God's cruel trick?
Why does God hate is so so?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Sora is one of the worst things to happen to mankind.
We are ahead of that direction. Anyway, that's the new
social media app that is all AI videos. Like my son,
my thirteen year old, he even set himself, I gotta
limit myself on this because it's just too damned entertaining
scrolling through all the AI videos that you posted every
single day. But I saw one last night. I got
some site that gives you the best five soro videos
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of the day, and it takes a total of a
minute to watch all five of them as long as
you stop. What's the big deal but stopping, and it's
like eating one potato chip.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But what I like so much.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
With baseball season going on right now, I don't know
what year it was, it looked like mid seventies playoff baseball.
It's probably Yankees, Dodgers or Red Sox or whoever. And
Elvis is at the plate and he's in full. He's
in full, and it's a wide shot and it's a
it's he's in full like karate gear and the red
scarf and the sunglasses. Anyway, Uh, three and three and
(15:23):
two in the count on the King and oh he
got a hold of that one and it goes deepen
into home run and he geeks rounds the bases and
he's pumping his fists and then they even have the
post game anywhere. Yeah, yeah, I was just trying to
get the bat on it and get a good hit.
I was all just trying to get a.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Good child freaking hilarious and just so incredibly real looking good.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I know who comes up with these ideas, They're gonna
run out of them eventually, right of ideas well, and
for free.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
In roughly twenty five seconds last night, I reached out
to Jack to remind me of the name of an
app and I took a picture of my wife and
I in Britain.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We are in a.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Punt which is like a gondola, taking a little ride
in Cambridge, and I just typed in and again this
took what thirty forty five seconds, an animation of the
photograph of us in the boat leaping into the water.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
For free, right in seconds. You gotta fooled me on
that second page. But I'll tell you, I just want
to get a stick on it and see if I
could get it out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You got you got serious stuff. I had had a
hang out. Wull count.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
You gotta protect the play jack, Okay, Wow, we got
more craziness from Mumdanni, who's going to be the first
communist mayor of a major city in America. Major editorial,
Mamdani will make New York unsafe for New York's Jews.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Wow, remember that front page stuff?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Remember that story we had last week questioning whether Jews
could continue to live in Great Britain?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Right, they're wondering and maybe not more. Is an Islamist
as well as a Communist. It's the Red Green Alliance,
which we've talked about before in one person.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
That's probably a bigger threat, right, isn't it Islamism?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, because you can boot communists out of power unless
they like get actual power. But it's very difficult to
dislodge Islamists because they'll.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Kill you for trying. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I don't know if he has the power to bring
many of his communist dreams true just because he's the mayor,
but he could do a lot of things around allowing
crazy versions of Islam.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
To run wild in New York. Yeah, yep, agree? What
the heck?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We We have tolerated ourselves into a terrible situation, a
toxic tolerance. Gad Sad has written a book about that
recently the Great Professor about how excessive tolerance will doom
a society.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's so obvious.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I don't understand why everybody doesn't get it. If you
were tolerant of a group that's intolerant, they will take over.
It's not complicated correct Anyway, We've got a lot of
stuff on the way. If you missed the secondent, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
But he would be I would say he would be
the leader of the party. He's not humor Schumer shot.
He's shot. This poor guy. I feels sorry for him,
known for a long time, but he's he's I think
he's mentally good. He's been beat up by young radical lunatics,
and I think Chuck Schumer is he's gotten I really do.
(18:44):
I think he's probably not.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Going to run.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
It shows that he's losing in every pole. Now, this
is hard. You know, he wants to meet with me.
He's sort of hard to be with the guy after
I make a statement like that. But I'm just giving
them back. I think Chuck is.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Probably kind of hard to meet with a guy after
a making statement like that. But I'm just giving you
the facts. He's gone, Wow, hey, I'm looking up at
the TV. Edie Falco and Jeremy Renner have a new
show coming out of some sort. But I didn't know
he was recovered enough from when his snowblower ran over
(19:17):
him that he was like sitting on the couch promoting
new shows and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay, glad he when was that?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Was that a couple of years a few years ago?
But he was like really really he nearly died. I
didn't know he was telling Okay, it looks to be fun.
One other thing I wanted to mention before we get
back into the bulk of this segment. Interesting AI story
that just came out breaking news that Zuckerberg is going
to lay off about six hundred AI workers, but the
why is dang interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And Jess and he.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Replaced him with AI. That's kind of funny. I'm more
scared about AI having read this article than I was before.
And I was already so this mom Donnie character. A
lot of people talk about him being communist and what
that would mean for New York and is like kind
of the face of the Democratic Party. That's what Trump
was talking about there, that Schumer's not the face of
(20:08):
the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's Mundani.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
He's gotten so other people are not just worried about
his communist views.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It's this I believe Zoron Mamdani poses a danger to
the security of the New York Jewish community. A vote
for Sliwa, whatever his merits, is a vote for Mamdani.
There is a path to victory, but it means that
every eligible voter must vote.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Popular New York rabbi there who almost certainly always votes Democrats.
So it's not like he's a Republican most likely, and
he's scared for the Jewish community of Mandani wins.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The Wall Street Journal just published an editorial by Alicia Weissel,
who's the former chief information officer for Goldman Sachs is
a founding partner in a big tech company. He's also
the chairman of the Elifeil Foundation. But big lead editorial
in the paper today a Mamdani Mayor Mayoralty Mayor. Mayor
(21:13):
Mamdani being mayor mayor threatens New York's.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Jews is the title.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
By propagating lies about occupation, apartheid, and genocide, he helps
promote anti Semitism, and he talks it's actually quite sad.
Most of this column is about conflicts. These are conversations
I said, say, he's had with a good old friend
of his who has taken in nothing but leftist coverage
(21:43):
of the conflict in Gaza. And this guy is completely
convinced of occupation, apartheid, genocide, that that October seventh was
justified and the rest of it, because he's been, you know,
just lapping up this incredibly bizarrely unfair, one sided coverage.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
That's interesting that that would happen in New York, the
biggest collection of Jewish people on earth outside of Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, And his point is, and I hate to summarize
it because it's quite eloquent, but his point is that
sort of pitching of that version of history inevitably causes
people to feel anger and hatred toward Jews, and a
hall he's asking for his affair hearing mister Mumdanni blamed
(22:39):
Hamas's butchery on the occupation the day after October seventh, while.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Israel was reeling. He omitted.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
In the various quotes that Israel pulled out of Gaza
in two thousand and five and that Hamas built rockets
and tunnels with billions of dollars in aid. Took the aid,
They belt rockets and tunnels. And then he goes into
some of the history of Israel that his friend was
completely ignorant of. And you know, I can get to
(23:12):
his point. Mister Mumdanni's lies in endangered Jews everywhere, incendiary,
false and deadly.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
They spread hatred.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
More than half of New York's hate crimes last year
were anti Semitic. One attacker shouting free Palestine stabbed a Jew.
Another tried to run Jews over with a car. I
was assaulted, he writes last week by anti Israel marchers
that the kind of rally mister Mndannie attended, then encouraged,
and then endorsed only tacitly as he came under pressure.
The signs read glory to the martyrs, violence his resistance,
(23:43):
and killed the Jews at the demonstration. Mumdanni attended. It's
interesting that those editorials and statements are coming out at
the same time.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And I mentioned this little earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Both Politico and The New York Times have big like
lead pieces today saying to the left, we've got to
abandon our left flank. They're too crazy. They're killing our party.
They're killing our electoral chances, and it's funny. The New
York Times has to point out that all the mistakes
that Republicans have made, frittering away winnable races in a
(24:25):
variety of states by nominating nut job candidates.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh and they're right, by the way, they're right in.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The New York Times, it's funny they that's the spoonful
of sugar that helps the medicine go down, because then
they turned to saying to their lefty raiders were killing
ourselves with these nut jobs. Anyway, I thought that was
interesting in Politico with a similar piece. Evidently the words
gotten around. It's okay to say it out loud. Now
I think that's really good. There's another step that needs
(24:54):
to be taken, though, when you're talking about Islamists, because
so many people have swallowed the lie that to criticize
fundamentalist Islam or Islamism, which is the spreading of Islam
as a political and economic system. To criticize that is
somehow bigotry, that you're quote unquote criticizing a religion. And
(25:16):
by the way, in America, you can criticize a religion
all you want. We get to it's in the First Amendment,
so go ahead. But I'm really really hoping that there's
been some sort of damn break. Oh. Another great example,
the Feminization of America article that's getting so much attention
that we talked about yesterday. In a little bit today,
(25:38):
I'm feeling like there's an increased permission structure for people
to say, you know, the wo crap.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I never bought it. I was just afraid to say.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
So.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Could this be the great preference cascade that we've talked
about before.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I don't know. We'll live to see it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I hate to be too optimistic because grim determination is
kind of our mindset around here.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But there are signs.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So why did Zuckerberg fire six hundred AI people at Facebook?
It's pretty danged interesting to get to that coming up.
I did want to mention, so I brought this up
the other day. My son, one of his favorite musicians
currently is this guy named lul Yachti and Lil YACHTI
was playing locally over the weekend and a big giant
fight broke out and they had to shut down the concert.
(26:22):
And it's really popular in this kind of music, whatever
you call that kind of music, to have these open
mosh pit areas in front of the stage, and they
get really violent and lots of people get hurt and
nearly crushed to death and all these different things. And
that's one of the appeals to like my son and
his kids, who were as like gentrified, you know, suburban, ye,
(26:43):
middle upper class kids as you can possibly get.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Why do you think that is danger adjacent?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
The reason I brought this up again was somebody texted this,
it's like the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. You
want to be there and kind of be danger adjacent.
You don't want to be stabbed by a bowl yourself.
Do you want to be able to say you did
it and kind of you know, lived in edgy. I
guess it's like young men on going off to war
back when that was more of a thing.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And well, in the great feminization of American society, boys
are taught over and over again, like vigorous activity even
is forbidden on the playground because somebody might get hurt,
never mind like violent games and full contact sports, and
so they they're attracted to him.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah, I think it's very much the same mindset of
that going to the Running of the Bulls. Yeah, if
I go to if I go into these concerts with him,
I'm sitting far away, watching from above and hoping he's
not very close.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
There ought to be a designated dad section, mom section exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'll watch it on a monitor somewhere.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
U Zuckerberg's really big on trying to create not just
artificial intelligence, but artificial superintelligence. Whatce I've been reading about
that will absolutely ruin mankind. And that's what he's spending
his money on now, among other things. On the way
stay here, Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
According to this New York Times report and these internal documents,
Amazon's investments in AI are going to allow it to
hire six hundred thousand fewer humans by twenty three, twenty
thirty three. I should say, despite the fact that they
plan to double the amount of products they are selling,
seventy five percent of work in those warehouses automated. That
is the eventual plan, And according to the New York Times,
(28:32):
Amazon is actually developing comm strategies for how to handle
the backlash in these communities where jobs might be lost.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Six hundred thousand jobs will be eliminated at Amazon by
AI in the next seven and a half years. Wow
Wow is right, that is really something. Yeah, different AI story.
(28:59):
The headline just breaking now that Mark Zuckerberg is planning
to lay off. He sent out letters today They're going
to lay off six hundred AI employees. But it's a
little misleading.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I mean, if.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Your knee jerk reaction is that AI isn't panning out
for him something or he's not as engaged in it. No,
he's replacing a bunch of lower tier AI employees that
they had hired a bunch of in a mad rush
to try to catch up to chat, GPT and Elon
and others. And then he since and we talked about
(29:35):
this at the time, he went on a spending spree
this past summer. In JUNI invested fourteen point three billion
dollars in something called Scale Ai, and he went and
he plucked some of the best AI minds in the
world from other companies. He recruited top researchers from open Ai,
that's Altman's thing, Google, Microsoft, And as we talked about
(29:57):
at the time, pay packages that for some of these dudes,
and they're almost all dudes number in the hundreds of
millions of dollars. Makes Sho Hayo Tani seem like nothing.
I mean serious crazy money. Come work for me, leave
open AI. I'll pay you two hundred million dollars. Great
(30:17):
googly moogly. That is how dedicated he is to try
and be That is funny, Katie, I don't blame you
for laughing. Google m mooglely is a funny expression. Zuckerberg is
doubling down and most of them are in. So he's
got four different segments of AI he's working on. I
won't bog down in that. But one of the segments
is super intelligence, which doesn't get enough talk. I was
(30:39):
just listening to a podcast about it the other day.
People use the blanket term AI, and then there's the AGI,
which is artificial general intelligence when it can be as
smart as a human being. Basically, super intelligence is the
idea of AI being just vastly smarter than human beings
have ever been and just a completely different level of
being able to learn fast and do things. And when
(31:01):
that happens, if it happens soon, I seriously can't even
imagine how mankind survive revives it. There's some people think
that it can't happen. I'm kind of hoping it can't.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, Well, Zuckerberg is Satan I revealed that on the
show a number of years ago.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
You know, you do say that a lot, But I
don't think he'd. I think he'd the impulse to want
to be first in and get to this before Elon
or somebody else does would override his I wonder what
this will do through the economy or society or yeah,
(31:37):
that sort of thing. And Honey, might be right, either
I do it or somebody else does it, And I'd
rather meet be me, which is you know, might just
be true.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, either way, we're doomed. Planet of the apes or
beavers or ants or something is on the way.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Has there anybody ever been anything even close to this
adjusted for inflation, where something came along where companies were
paying hundreds of millions of dollars per employee to have
the best talent.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I don't think so. I mean that's stunning. Yeah, And
is it a bubble? Nobody's sure about that. Either. Nobody's
sure about that.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
And it could be, but you got a lot of
the smartest people in the world who clearly think it's not.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I hope they're wrong, right, Although part of being in
a bubble is you must swear up and down it's
not a bubble.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Right, so who knows? Who knows? I guess we'll all
find out together, or.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Or if the Lord sees fit to send a semi
truck my way today as I crossed the street to
just let me know how.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Coch close, friends of the Armstrong and Getty Show had
him on a couple of weeks ago. Craig got Walls
and Tim Sanderfer are both big believers that, like every
other technological advance, this will create more different jobs in
its wake, so you don't have to worry about all
the jobs lost. Maybe I don't believe it. I don't
see what AI is going to create in terms of
(33:04):
jobs to the tune of like the six hundred thousand
people Amazon's going to lay off in the next half
dozen years or.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So, right right, Yeah, I've got to admit I think
this is the one exception of the great rule.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But I'm intrigued by the question. I don't know that
I'm right.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Nobody knows if they're right about any of it. No,
which is the fun part, isn't it all.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
I know that I use AI regularly, and I'm just
absolutely amazed by it. I talked about as buying a
computer for my son, and I used GROC and chat
GPT and said, this is what my son wants to do,
which computer should I get? And then it gave me
a couple of choices and said is he going to
do this or that? And I said, no, he doesn't
do that, but he does this. And then it just
kept narrowing it down in a way that it had
taken me all day long to do on my own
(33:50):
or even with Google. And I did the same thing
looking for a coffee maker. I mean, the amount of
information it gave me and boiling it all down was amazing.
Then he got the weirdness of Groc in my car,
but she yesterday? What did I ask Groc in the
car yesterday? Kind of got an argument with Grok, which
my son thought was hilarious because it's a woman.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
We were listening to a Beatles song and then Henry said,
is Yoko Ono still alive? And I said, I don't know, hey, Groc,
is a Yoko Onna still alive? And Groc said, oh,
you know it, She's still alive and she's still cranking
out art better than ever. And I said, yeah, I've
never really been a fan of Yoko on and groc said, well,
she's been on the the avant garde of writing and
(34:30):
painting and music, so many people do respect her work.
I thought it was kind of interesting that Grok automatically
took the hippie view of Yoko Ono. And I said, well,
we will have to agree to disagree, and she said,
that's fine, I'll talk to you later. But Henry said
I should have called her a bee, you stupid bee.
(34:52):
I don't know why I don't do that. It's weird.
I'm so convinced, like, look at you. You're a polled
by this. It's a freaking computer voice. There's no human
being on the list. Why wouldn't I say, you stupid me?
It's evil.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Don't have me evil. Pass your lips.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
What it's a computer, it's trying to argue me into
liking Yoko Ono.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Why don't you drop an N bomb on it? Wow?
I know what would happen if you did that? I mean,
probably report you to something. Probably would. I'm just no, no, no,
I need to have to send adjacent I need.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
To test this more and push back more. You're just stupid, Grock,
You're stupid. Yokono sucks or she's anything. She's married to
John Lennon. I'd see what she said to that.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
If this segment of the podcast is not labeled that
Jack argues with Groc about Yoko Ono, I am resigning
my post. We will have to agree to disagree. If
you had that on your bingo card. Congratulations. Oh you
know what I left out one of my big articles
about how the Democrat Party realizes it's gone crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Maybe we can hit that next hour.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
We did twenty hours of this so much being Held
against My will song and dance every week. If you
miss a segment or an hour and you'll want to
hear it, you can get in podcast form. You just
look for Armstrong and Getty on demand. You should subscribe.
Oh yeah, absolutely should.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
And you should listen to the great feminization discussion in
yesterday's podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Hour two changed a lot of minds.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
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