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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 arm Strong
and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Two.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Thanks one.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
P Diddy's girlfriend has taking the stand in that trial,
and we're monitoring that and if she corroborates some of
the horrifying testimony from yesterday or says anything exciting, will
pass that along to you. Also, I'm liking this conversation
that's catching on online of Hey, the French gave us
the Statue of Liberty as a gift, Why Kate Katar
give us a.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Plane as a gift? What's the deal?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
As a as an argument, So that's yeah, that's interesting,
and there are ethical questions here, but I feel like
they can be resolved.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I just so we brought this up, and it's always
been true of Trump. I mean from day one, I've
been pointing this out, how he often steps on such
good news.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
So they he had the.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Prescription Executive Order yesterday lower the cost of prescriptions, which
should be a huge, like news cycle win for you
and maybe the whole trade thing coming to an end.
And you know, it ended up being for a lot
of the dominant media. The whole receiving a plane from
Qatar was the Yeah, obliterated it.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
The drug price thing is an interesting topic too. Maybe
we'll take that on at some point today or tomorrow.
You know how much can actually be done, but we'll
keep you up to date on various stuff as it develops.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, and it was an executive order. I just came
across this from Sarah Iger of The Dispatch. Trump's has
signed five bills into law in the first one hundred days,
the fewest of any president since at least the fifties
might be earlier than that, which means and everything that
has been accomplished can be reversed with the stroke of
a pen by the next president.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I didn't want to do to your hopes. What did
he and his pals did to his ex girlfriend?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Oh my god, it's raining exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
But yeah, there's a limited amount that he can actually
do and and and where this ends is probably not
anywhere near the promise. But anyway, having said that, I've
been wanting to talk about this for a little while.
That Colorado, which is in so many ways of wonderful state,
I mean, just scenic as can be and for the
longest time just normal, you know, just the great plains,

(02:32):
good hard working, normal people. You get a little artsy
FARTSI around Denver and but it's just it's a I
love Colorado, I always have since the first time I
was I was.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
There, and gorge and more.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
But it has gone full on woke lunatic right now.
A few examples and and particularly from the Department of
gender bending madness. It's called tolerance. As this person is
pointing out Lathan Watson. We'll get to some of his
words in a couple of minutes. But what they're tolerating

(03:08):
is mutilating procedures that put radical ideology ahead of children's health.
This is all about kids and the so called gender
affirming care, which is radical gender theory experimentation on healthy
young bodies. It's disgusting. But there's this one house build
that would require insurance companies. It would force them to
cover so called gender affirming drugs and procedures for both

(03:31):
children and adults, including puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and
their removal of healthy breasts and genitalia. Insurance companies are
forced to cover that. Here's a different build that would
require courts to consider actions like misgendering a child or
using your child's actual name. It would require courts to

(03:53):
consider that a form of coercive control, which is a
euphemism for child abuse.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I would never hold up, but it would sure be
a nightmare going through the process until you challenged it
in rue.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
But in child custody decisions. Oh, be horrible. That's because
that's what that was. Yeah, that was the rest of
the sentence. That's where they're using this.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Now.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Wait a second, Dad still calls Jimmy jimmy, so he should.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Definitely lose customs. Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
And if another if a court from another state gives
custody to a parent who affirms the child's biological sex,
a bill directs Colorado courts to ignore that decision and
instead a word custody of the parent who pushes the
child toward transition, purely because they pushed the child toward transition.
You crazy people, right, and anybody who believes in you know,

(04:45):
as for instance, the Gaze against Groomer's group says, we
believe children are perfect as they are. They don't need
drugs and hormones and surgery. They are what they ought
to be anyway, And if parents seek compassionate cou for
their child, and this is going to be brought home
to roost with some audio we're about to play for you.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
If the.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Parents say, my kid was the victim of something, or
is confused, or has been led down the path of
radicalism by teachers or activists, any counselor who speaks any
message in Colorado that know you are what you should be.
You are made that way by God. Let's come to
terms with whatever's bothering you. But you're a boy, that

(05:33):
counselor can be subject to steep finds and can lose
his or her license.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm hoping this is the last gasp of this sort
of thing.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
I really hope. So this is awful. It's unspeakably. People
are so crazy. It's just it's just it's amazing how
crazy people.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Can get well.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
And then the Nathan points out that, as Colorado's recent
history demonstrates, bad legislation often leads to good case law law.
So but his point, and it's so sad if you
think about it, is how many more confused adolescent kids
are going to be victimized before these cases get overturned.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
And these horrifying laws.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
You know, are exposed to the light of day, and
you know, and I'll just say this very briefly, Europe,
the US, everywhere that looks at this stuff says this
does not help kids, that there is no scientific evidence
that these experiments should continue on children. There is none anyway.
Having said that, this is.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
A woman named.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Brandy Cruz who's talking to Anna, who was I think
a guy who was convinced that they were a girl.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
And they use the term CSA a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
It's childhood's sexual assault that gets clarified later, but I
just want you to understand that. So Michael, we'll start
with thirty. This is a Brandy Cruz talking to Anna.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Doctors told me that what was wrong with me and
how I felt about my body was not from CSA,
even though I went there and said, did CSA make
me this way? Yes, it's a childhood sexual assault and
they said no. They said no. They said being gay
as innate and being trans as an eight and what
you have is gender identity disorder. They diagnosed me with

(07:15):
gender dysphoria. And I believed their books for about seventeen years.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
So they said no, no, no, childhood sexual trauma could
make you feel uncomfortable with your body. No, it's innate,
it's born in you. You are transgendent.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Where now they come up with these letters for these
like really you know, rough situations, to try to make
them so academic.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, let's not. Let's call it word it is. Yeah,
roll on, Michael, are you willing to tell me everything
that you went through?

Speaker 5 (07:43):
I had facial feminization surgery. I had sex reassignment surgery.
I was on HRT for seventeen years. Now I'm on
a combo dose because I can't go off. I have
multiple health conditions from transitioning young and for transitioning for
so long.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Oh my god, that poor person.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
I saw somebody the other day in one of those
TikTok videos that had had just got their atom app
Adam's apple shaved.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
That's got to be quite the process.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
And oh so this poor confused child rape victim convinced
that no, it's your transgender at his healthy penis and
testicles removed, jabbed with powerful hormones, which now she I
don't know how, I don't remember how Anna chooses to live.
I think is a woman at this point, because they

(08:31):
have such terrible hormonal imbalances. They've got to take these
powerful hormones for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Rollan, what was it for you that kind of woke
you up to This isn't what I should have done.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
I found out that homosexual transition was environmentally caused in
almost every single case by a childhood sexual assault or
by internalized homophobia.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Failed boy syndrome.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
I was given a blanket diagnosis given anybody who has
a body issue as a child nowadays.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Failed the boy syndrome.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, I know there are a lot of technical terms
in this, but it is if you are uncomfortable with
your body, you're uncomfortable, you're attracted guys. Whatever, It's a
blanket diagnosis these days, says Anna roll On.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
How do you find your story received by people who
continue to sort of push medicalization?

Speaker 5 (09:18):
If they hate me, They call me a bigot, They
say that trans women are women, they say that gender
dysphoria is a valid diagnosis.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
And god forbid, You're.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
A feminate and you believe that something's wrong with you
as a man because you like pretty things and are sassy.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
So how do you how do you identify nout?

Speaker 5 (09:37):
I'm a gay man.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Have you lost friends or anyone by de transitioning.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
If I was canceled by every friend I had who
was liberal in this city and had to leave the city.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Oh, they hate me, they call me a bigot. Can
you imagine that last clip?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Why is it important for you to be here?

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Because people are being lied to and they're being diagnosed.
They're not being diagnosed with what actually causes the gender disport.
They're just being diagnosed with a symptom of a problem.
And there are multiple problems that cause those symptoms. And
when you don't appropriately diagnose people, you lead them into
a life of ruin. All of these interventions are permanent,
they're irreversible, and they lied to me.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
There's a huge scandal going on in the UK right now.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Scotland's top social worker has now come out against the
powers that be and she was also the director of
the Scottish Child Law Center and said care bosses that's
the welfare essentially failed to uphold existing equality lawns stood
by way. Social workers who bravely challenged gender ideology were
bullied and lost jobs. The Scottish Care Inspectorate and other

(10:41):
government funded bodies all signed up to imposing belief and
gender identity on social workers and on vulnerable service users,
claiming that the law supported this. She accused the bosses
of causing untold harm by abandoning child protection principles and
giving into radical gender ideology. So they throw away all
of the things they claimed that they were there to

(11:03):
do to protect children in the face of the bullying
by the gender activists.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
By the way, social go ahead, we have some breaking
news on this story. The Pentagon is halting gender affirming
healthcare for transgender troops as it implements Trump's new policy.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Social workers were advised by these and other powerful bodies
that they must offer automatic affirmation of gender identity, even
in very young children whose parents are adopters were claiming
to have identified this, including those with serious and complex
psychiatric conditions. And then you got people autistic you're a
rape victim, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
They get gender affirming care because they're transgender. Well, those
are awful.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
And then you've got the ones where the parents are
just so enthused about their kids being this. What's that actress,
the blonde one who won the oscar for being the serial.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Killer shar least thereon?

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, who says both her kids are trans at ages
like two and four or whatever.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (12:06):
And she finally said, unbelievably, we were also asked to
accept the claim gender identity of serious sex offenders and
to indulge them, etc. It's just unbelievable. How did a
belief system this crazy get so far and claim so
many victims? And Colorado is still you know, you said,

(12:27):
we hope for past the peak of this, and on
the way down, Colorado is trying to push it further.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Right now, I do think we're on the other side
of it.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I mean, we can all feel that, but there are
still places where they're fight, where they're fighting the good
fight in their mind, the crazy fight, the insane fight,
damaging the children fight.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Your kid is effeminate, your kid is gay, your kid
is fine. You don't have to if the idea that, yes,
my kid is so sick they need surgery.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Come on, Oh my God.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Said, if you have any thoughts on any of this,
you could text us four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Maybe the biggest celebrity trial in the generation p ditty
according to some people. AnyWho, We'll have to decide whether
we want updates on this on a regular basis. The
star witness, his ex girlfriend of ten years, is on

(13:23):
the stand right now, Katie any headlines for us.

Speaker 7 (13:27):
Yeah, at the moment, she's visibly upset. Also eight and
a half months pregnant.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Just as a note, Yeah, that's so fun.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
She's been asked to describe her relationship with Ditty.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
She said, quote, there.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
Were violent arguments that would usually result in some form
of physical abuse, dragging, different things of that nature. And
then she was asked to describe what a freak off was.
It basically entails the hiring of an escort and setting
up this experience so that I.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Could perform for Sean.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
Him being able to watch me with another person and
actually direct us on what we were doing seemed to
be what he enjoyed. Eventually it became a job for
me pretty much.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, yeah, as the guy testified yesterday, sometimes for as
long as ten hours. I don't even I don't even
know what that means. Ten hours, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
And she was I'm just looking through some of the
news accounts. She said she was naive and a total
people pleaser and feared making him angry or comfortable with
the rejection.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Combs controlled much of her life.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
She said she feared that she'd be blackmailed with videos
and images of her participation in the free coughs, as
well as threatened with violence.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
I saw the part yesterday where somebody is saying he'd
constantly be saying more baby oil. You need more baby oil.
He had a thing for baby oil for some reason.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Wow, All right, Well that's your update on that. Anything
else happens, we'll bring it on to you. Here's a
grim story from the Narco state, that is our trading
partner in country south of US, in Mexico. Some woman
that was running for mayor in some town on a
I'm going to stand up to the cartels sort of ticket.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
See Can I guess how that sentence ends?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, no kidding, gunned down on live television in front
of all her supporters yesterday, her and her daughter and
several other people on her campaign and just yeah, murdered
on television. No ya ain't is what the cartels said.
And the New York Post runs through the six hundred
and sixty one different attacks last year on politicians across

(15:39):
Mexico who tried to stand up to the cartels. I mean,
true patriots were really knowingly risking their lives to try
to make the town they live in safe and worth
a damn for their own family. But there's some gruesome examples,
and it doesn't even really hardly make the news here anymore.
It happened so often, got exactly one hundred and sixty one. Yeah,

(16:00):
I got an example here of a guy who was
a mayor in someplace.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well, this guy was shot and killed.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
This guy was shot and killed, this guy was shot
and killed, and then he got one hero was.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Beheaded in his head, left on the top of his
car for everyone to see the next morning.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Here's a woman who was the mayor wanted to continue
his policies. She was murdered walking home from the gym
with her bodyguard. Bodyguard when that didn't do that good
a job, probably, Yeah, it's that's rough.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
That is really really rough, that that goes on to
that extent, and we pay so little attention to it.
What me right next door was But oh my point
was I knew I had a point, man, hang on
to your culture of law and order, because once it
goes getting it back could be a hundred year project
or more.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
And that's why a lot of us have been railing
so hard against a lot of the progressive policies that
have you know, made crime legal again and emptied the
prisons again. It takes two weeks to do ndoe and
maybe two hundred years to get back.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, that is rough. We got a lot more on
the way.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
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Speaker 1 (17:08):
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Speaker 8 (17:10):
Government of Cutter a massive seven forty seven to eight
luxury jet that's been called a flying palace. The jet,
which is bigger and more luxurious than Air Force one,
would almost certainly be the most expensive gift ever from
a foreign power. It has two fully furnished floors, plush
carpet leather couches, and two bedrooms.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
I had a good discussion on a podcast yesterday about
how many people give a crap about this? Maybe you should,
Maybe it's way out of bounds. Maybe it's an emolument's clause.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, what about the emolument's clause?

Speaker 3 (17:42):
But how many people this is register with even if
it's a maybe you shue?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I'll bet not a lot.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Anyway. I've only read this, I haven't actually heard it.
The back and forth the reporter in Trump yesterday.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Here we go, say, people who knew that luxury chet
as a personal get to you, why not leave.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
It behind me? See fake news?

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Right?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Why not only only you see?

Speaker 9 (18:08):
Well a few of you would, let me tell you,
you should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us
a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't
give us. I want to pay you a billion or
four hundred million or whatever it is. Or I could
say thank you very much. You know, there was an
old golfer named Sam Sneed. Did you ever hear me?

(18:29):
Want Ad two terms? Was a great golfer that he
had a motto. When they give you a putt, you
say thank you very much, You pick up your ball
and you walk to the next hole.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
A lot of people are stupid.

Speaker 9 (18:40):
They say no, no, I insist start putting it, and
then they put it and they miss it and their
partner gets angry at them. You know what, remember that
Sam Snead, When they give you a putt, you pick
it up and you walk.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
To the next hole and you say thank you very much. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
I don't like the kataris trying to buy a favor.
I just don't I'm not comfortable with it. Yeah, I
don't know if you bear the world's biggest backers of
the Muslim Brotherhood. The Qatar was a pariah in the
Middle East because the Muslim Brotherhood is an islam Islamist organization.
It was causing all sorts of problems for the other

(19:24):
governments in the region. And they've mended some of those fences.
But yeah, I just I don't like the feel of it.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
No, if I have to choose one or the other,
I'd rather we didn't take the plane from the Katari
has been ranked very high on my list of give
a craps.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
This yeah, bigger problems for sure.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, so a couple of things I wanted to mention personally.
First of all, I just moved to chat GPT to
the first page of my iPhone. Wow, okay, I am
Judy and I are planning a trip. I've used it
for a number of things, but we're planning a trip now.
And I've heard that that artificial intelligence in general, whatever

(20:04):
you know your favorite platform is, is really good at that.
I am astounded by how great it is. Yeah, I just,
oh my goodness, I'm only dabbling.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
But it is, like you said the other day, Why
would you use Google? Now that you've got this, It's
way better than Google, way better than Google for whatever
question you've got for instance.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
So I've been an Anglo file fascinated by all things
British since I was a little kid, and I've never
spent any time in the UK really, which is just
I'm horrified by that.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
I let myself get as old as.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
I am, and it's inexplicable anyway, except that I have
a job that I got to show up for five
days a week, and it's harder to take big long
trips anyway. And so I was asking it what part
of town should we stay in? Here are our interests,
here's our budget, you know, and it recommended several different
parts of town that would be great.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Mostly Freigki.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
I like Figgie pudding and spotted Dick and I need
Figgie putting in spotted Dick.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
In Kidney pot anyway, and then I said, well, our interests.
I saw the results and I said, our interests are
especially this, that and the other. End it refined the
results and then I said, hey, what are some day
trips we could take from London because we're going to
stay for quite a few days. And it gives great

(21:21):
day trips, the time it takes to get there, how
you would get there. And then it said would you
like an itinerary for a trip to Oxford to take
in classical music? I said yes please, and it said,
all right, take this. You know you leave that now
you go to that they have a concert at ten am.
Then you blah blah blah. It's just it's amazing anyway.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
So that's one thing. So second, I.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Don't know there is such thing at travel agents anymore anyway,
but they're out of a job.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah, now they could maybe handle some of the logistics
like booking you tickets, behave more like a concierge.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Than a I don't know than a planner.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
But anyway, because I got to admit, some of that
logistics stuff is a little uh, not daunting exactly, just
a pain in the butt. But the other thing is
I want to thank everybody who through the years has said, Joe,
you would love Black Mirror, the Netflix series.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Have you watched that at all?

Speaker 6 (22:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
But people keep referencing it and I think I need
to check it out. It is Katie your fan, h fan,
huge fan, so it is.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
I would describe it as a modern day cinematic quality
Twilight Zone, which is probably not an original description.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'm sure other people have used that too.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Each episode stands alone, at least so far that I've watched.
They're not it's not a serial. It's like individual, fairly
short movies revolving around the theme of man trying to
deal with the new technological world, okay, and paranoia and identity.
And it's all very not cerebral, but it themes are

(23:00):
worth wrestling with. The first episode is one of the
most hilariously funny, horrifying things I've ever seen. It was
with the Pig Katie. Oh yeah, season one, episode.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
One, Oh yeah, we're going back but yeah, and the Politician. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Anyway, So if you haven't yet dived into it, I
recommend it highly. It's themes are mature that you don't
want to watch this with your kids, So if you're fright,
I'm begging you don't.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
But so, if like me, you're constantly wondering where AI
and Stuff's going to.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Take us, this would be a good show for that.
Oh my gosh, yes, you mean example. Well, and I'm
in the early days, Katie, what's you know? Later later?
It's Okay, here's it. Whatever springs to mind.

Speaker 7 (23:42):
Possible spoiler alert issue, but oh that's all right. The
latest episode I just watched they are living in a
world in the UK where the honeybee is now an
endangered species. So this company took it upon themselves to create.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Little mini drones.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
That look like bumblebees and they pollinate and take care of,
you know what, the bees job.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
That's a wonderful and inspiring idea. Thank you for telling
us about the episode.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
Hey, so somebody hijacks all of the bees and they
start killing people.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, going through the ears for everywhere bees.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, oh no, Hey, I tell you what nanodrones in warfare.
I read about that years ago and it still haunts
my dreams. Drones so small you can't even see them
with the naked eye, individually swarming the battlefield and swarming
the lungs of your opponents and just detonating their lungs.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
I'm highly interested in all those things, and a lot
of those things can come true or will come true.
And then you've just got the very basic thing of AI.
Like you were talking about how good chat GPT is
doing stuff. It's just if it shaves off even if
it doesn't eliminate every job, If it shaves off ten jobs,
I mean, it's going to restructure society in such a

(25:03):
drastic way.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Ten percent would be cataclysmic. Right.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
My brother, who has been a truck driver at various
times in his life, sent me some stuff about the
new Tesla semi trucks that they're trying in Texas right now,
and he said, Man, if this works, it's just going
to be devastating because that's a huge job nationwide truck
driver and you eliminate all those and all of a sudden,

(25:30):
all of those dudes, mostly dudes, got to find a
different way to make a living. This is underappreciated. Is
how seismic a shift.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
This is going to be well, and we're dealing really
so like maybe in the next year. Days we're already
dealing with And we talked about this hour one of
the show. I think how the budget negotiations going on
right now in the House, especially fiscal conservatism is gone,
and the current to reform Medicaid, for instance, the new perverse, twisted,

(26:05):
bloated Medicaid that Obamacare just exploded. Nobody has the will
because it's too easy to demagoge it and say they're.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Trying to take away healthcare for the poor, and people
will believe that.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
And it's just if the AI thing happens and that
ten percent happens. I mean, how many Americans are working
at this point. Honestly, it's like one hundred and forty
one hundred and fifty million.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
It's a half.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
You got kids and old people and blah blah blah.
But that's an astonishing addition to the welfare roles, Medicaid disability,
because you know what's going to happen to those truck drivers.
And I based this on some stuff I've been reading about,
you know some of the you know, more run downtowns
in the Steel belt and stuff like that, is they

(26:48):
go on fake disability.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
That's what happens.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
The government people and the corporate people say to the guys, look,
this is a job's fair and a training program, but
we don't really mean it, y'all. If you stay in
this town, you're gonna end up on disability. So here's
how you apply for disability. Here's what you need to
tell them, and those numbers will just just explode.

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WHOA.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
That has got to be good news, right? Does that
mean they can start lowering interest rates? Is that what
that possibly means? As perhaps?

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Yeah, I tell you what. This is sobering news, and
you know how I hate to be sober. The labor
market for recent college grads has deteriorated noticeably in the
first quarter of this year.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
The trend continuing but getting worse.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'd like to hear a little more about that and
mainly why, among other things. On the way stay here.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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Speaker 3 (29:26):
He's going to be like the Billy Carter for the Pope.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yeah yeah, not a terrible comparison. So stay tuned for
that if you can, or again grab it later. So
while Bill Maher was talking to Donna Brazil, a longtime
Democrat activist. You know, interesting lady, no doubt. But they're
talking about AI and the future and employment and everything
we've been discussing. Here's how it went. This has come
out this week.

Speaker 10 (29:50):
Graduation season is upon us and the unemployment rates of
new grads way up.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Why is that?

Speaker 10 (29:56):
Because AI is doing the jobs that even the white collar.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Kids used to be able to code.

Speaker 10 (30:02):
There's a company, Aurora Driver driverless trucks.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
It makes well.

Speaker 10 (30:07):
They've already tested it over twelve hundred miles. So there's
three point five to five million truck drivers in America and.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
This and that Uber drivers.

Speaker 10 (30:16):
They're going to be out of a job, cashiers. We
already see it at the Amazon warehouse. What are we
going to do?

Speaker 6 (30:23):
What are the robo possibilities of heaven? You know, these
automated systems help us reduce you know, work workplace hazards.
I mean, there are things that they can do that
human beings cannot do. They can lift things, they can
move things, they can box things. So we have to
adapt to the future, Bill.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
We can't run from a Wow, what meaningless problem that was.
We need to adapt to the future Bill. Yeah, that's
what I'm talking about. How workplace injuries or whatever.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's interesting how the left immediately jumps to its great
that AI will be able to replace jobs. I guess
leaning more into the idea that people shouldn't.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Have to work, or that they'll become poets or I
don't know, democratic activists if they don't have to put
food on the table.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Eh. Interesting, So some numbers are out.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Labor market for recent college graduates deteriorated noticeably in the
first quarter of this year. Unemployment rate jumped to five
point eight percent, and the under employment rate rose sharply
to forty one point two percent. I would have to
click several times to get to their precise definition of underemployment,
but I have a feeling it has to do with

(31:34):
either not in a field they're educated for or not
working enough hours. But yeah, and they don't really explain why. Again,
that would take a fair amount of digging. But it's
softened up and it makes sense. I mean, speaking of AI,
there are just a lot of I'm a college graduate,
I've got a cubicle job, I don't work outside with

(31:57):
my hands jobs.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
How do you describe it? Office jobs?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
In short, I guess a technology is taking care of
a lot of those and b As we've been discussing
for quite a while now, college degrees are getting phonier
and phonier the extent to which they indicate that this
person has gained important skills and insights about.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
The world in life. That wouldn't mean anything to me.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
No, no, it could, but they did. That just doesn't
mean that anymore. Having a diploma doesn't mean that.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
So once we start, I think we all, I think
everybody agrees that we're going to be heading down a
road where there is some sort of guaranteed income for
a certain segment of society, maybe not like permanently, but
transitioning in and out.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Of work or something like that.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
But once that starts, are people going to be fighting
each other to try to get it into that category?
Like you want to be one of the people that
gets the guaranteed income and doesn't have to work or
would that seem like a horror to most people?

Speaker 1 (32:58):
It seems like a horror to me.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
I think we'll have the standard makers and takers, you know,
division in society, but it'll be weighted way towards the takers.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Would it have seemed like a horror to me when
I was twenty two, I don't know when my standard
living was so low that meeting it or exceeding it
wouldn't take much. And I was perfectly happy with my
standard of living, maybe with the idea of okay, that'd
be fine, you know, and then I don't have to work,
and I can I'll get a degree and this or

(33:32):
that eventually, and then you just don't get around to it.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, And then I think they're your secondary effects or
whatever that second tier effects. You deny the incentive for many,
many people to excel at anything, to live a life
of purpose, even to stay busy, and that will cascade

(33:59):
into serious moological changes. I think, because you know, young,
how do I put this? If you fundamentally change the
purposes of people's lives and how they spend each day
and why they spend each day doing them, that causes
enormous political instability. Just everything changes, and the number of

(34:19):
people who are on the government dole, and the way
the government takes in revenue and then hands it back
out again, the way private industry, even if it's all
robots and AI, generates that income, and then how it's
confiscated from them, and blah blah. I mean, that's that
serious earthquake level changing of society.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
That I think is not one hundred years off or
fifty years off or twenty years off.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
I think it's like two years off.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yeah, I don't know, but it's it's definitely not one
hundred years old.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Will you add the whatever he said three million truck
drivers to the however many million uber drivers, they'll all
be gone soon with the way MOS in that and
you know a few more of those white collar jobs
you're discussing, You're gonna have enough million people out there
that are gonna need some sort of guaranteed didn't come,
I guess. And why would the rest of us be

(35:13):
okay with paying for them to not do anything?

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Because we're just satisfied with working hard and having our
money confiscated by the government to hand out for those
people who are you know, victims of AI or whatever.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I'll tell you what too.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
If they announced in the next however long period, do
you want to pick that? Hey, you know that hallucinations
problem with AI systems.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
We've fixed it.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
We've figured out what caused that, and so now there
is zero chance our AI attorney will ever come up
with a fake case or give bad legal advice. There's
zero chance our AI accountant will hallucinate some sort of
tax deduction that doesn't exist and you go to jail.
We've got that taken care of. Then, man, you're gonna
see white collar jobs disappear like crazy.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
And that if that robot stops swinging its arm around
trying to decapitate people and starts lifting boxes, and you
eliminate all those.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Jobs, so you're either unemployed or decapitated. This is the future,
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