November 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & BBC is in deep trouble
- Ai dead loved ones
- Fetterman's book
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong's Joe, Katty arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. I've gotten a
lot of texts similar to this one.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Jack.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm so sick of men talking to me at the gym.
I just want to work out. I used to wear
a leave me alone T shirt. If you have a
question about glutes, google it. Don't talk to me. But
uh that it would suck if that happens to you
all the time. I have a friend she wanted to
get into golfing, and she had her afternoons free, so
she'd go golfing by herself. She said she couldn't ever go.
(00:49):
She'd be out there golfing by herself. Every five minutes
some guy rides, hey, you want to golf with us?
Or you need somebody to golf with or blah blah
blah blah blah. Constantly She's just no, I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh that would wear you out, that would get annoying,
that would get knowing that people are looking at you.
Try Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'd attempted to go off on a tangent and what
I don't get from you dudes who do that sort
of thing. Do you really think an attractive woman golfing
alone just doesn't have any way to meet men, and
she just doesn't. It's that's why she's out there by herself.
She just has no way to meet a dude. So
you coming by talking to her? No, no, no, I
(01:32):
don't think guys think that they see a fish within
the reach of their line, so they throw their line
in simple as that. I can see how it would
be very annoying tho as a woman that you'd think,
I can't go golf by myself, or I can't go
to the gym by myself because somebody talks to me
every five minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's too tiresome. Yeah, yeah, totally Yeah, unfortunate. Ah So
we've got a lot to squeeze into the final hour
of the week, But first let's take a fond look
back at the week that was. It's cow clips, the.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Week the bombshow release of what House Democrats say are
emails to and from deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
This vote is going to be on your record for
longer than Trump is going to be president, and.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Lauren Bowert herself was called here to the White House
had a meeting inside the Situation Room. These emails proved
absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did
nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Do you think President Trump has something to hide here?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I don't because I believe the women, and the women
have said over and over again that Donald Trump did
nothing wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, hundred flights have been canceled all across the US today.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My little one learned the word ice cream and she
maybe make sure I promised her to get her ice stream.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
When I get back home from the drip.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
That being said nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I'd say it comes to fake me that little girl
in her ice scream.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Longest government shut down in American history could be coming
to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I think the word of the day is terrible. No
way to defend this. You are right to be angry.
I hell not.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Turmoil at Britain's premiere broadcaster with President Trump right in
the middle.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Be there with you and we fight.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We fight like hell ready t ready play a bunch
of fashion in the fir he says, excuse me, sir,
so misgendering me right away. If you're not a woman,
that's obvious. This is a police matter.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We need.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was assault No, they are not. They are men.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I was assaulted.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Hey, optimist, you know where I can get a co
I can take you to the kitchen if you want
to check for a coke there. Oh yeah, that'd be great. Go, yes,
let's do that. This is a very big play. Don't
you think they have to get a touchdown. Let's put
it differently. They just got a touch out.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It is gonna be a great grandmother. Oh, Charley, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
We don't want to talk about it, we say.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
No, it's clips of the week.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We really ought to do the story about having your
dead relative talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
An AI chat bot halogram app of your dead granny.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So we'll do that coming up. I won't read all
the texts, getting lots of text about this whole gym interaction.
It's kind of an interesting thing. We got a number
of texts from I'm a woman and I wish guys
would hit on me and they don't, and it's hurtful.
Got that got this sort of thing. Don't dress like
a whore, and we'll leave you alone.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So that's uh, well, that's a kind of a different.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Nick fuintes in cell view of the whole.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Thing, I think, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm going to do
one Epstein email and I'll shut up about it. Newly
released emails shows that Epstein thought Trump was one of
the worst people he knew and doesn't have didn't have
one decent cell in his body. Well, he kicked you
(05:50):
out of the club, he clicked he kicked you out
of mar A Lago, so you're really really pissed off.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I understand that dynamic. Yeah I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I would certainly prefer that my politicians be really good
moral people. I have never thought that about Donald Trump.
He's effective, He's had some great policies. But yeah, if
somebody says, yeah, he's really not that moral a guy,
he's not really a good guy. Ring's fairly true to me.
Just have bigger problems than that.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We will get to the AI loved one passing thing
for you coming up soon. There are a number of
clips in the clips of the week that I would
comment on. A I don't know what to do about.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Clips of the Week.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We do this every week and I don't know any
way around it, but sometimes there's stuff in there that
I'm afraid you didn't hear, Like it's you know, it's
an ai voice and you think it's a real voice.
In this case, it was Donald Trump. It was actually
Donald Trump's voice, but he never said that clip that
we had in there. That was the falsely edited version
from BBC that they are now being about, and we
(07:01):
put it in Clips of the Week. BBC edited that together.
They were like two things Trump said and almost an
hour apart. They put it together to make it seem
like it was one thought. And now the head of
BBC and the number two at BBC, probably the most
important news organization on planet Earth, the head of that
(07:22):
news organization stepped down over that lying documentary that they.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Put out a little over a year ago, and they
should have.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I came across a great perspective on that from a
guy named Joseph Sternberg, who anyway, he's writing about that
that scandal, and he says from afar, it might look
as though the crisis englfing the British Broadcasting Corporation is
only about the dishonest editing of trump et cetera. Oh no, friends,
(07:51):
you're witnessing the meltdown of a core institution of British society.
And then he describes the editing scandal that you just described,
and so they did, they did all that, and he says,
for what, I defy any reader to furnish evidence that
a single American voter in twenty twenty four was swayed
(08:13):
by the BBC report about anything. No sensible BBC staffer
could have thought that airing this clip in this form
on the show would convey useful information about what a
Trump wind might mean for the domestic British audience that
watched it. And then he says, one suspects that the
panorama that was the show report was created solely to
tackle the emotional pleasure centers of the journalists involved in
(08:36):
the liberals among their audience. And then he points out, oh,
and then he goes into BBC's Arabic service which is
flamingly anti Israel, and the LGBTQ desk that suppresses anything
contrary to far left beliefs at the BBC. And then
the most interesting part to me was he says, this
(08:58):
is rocking Britain in a way that America. They struggle
to fathom if their frame of reference is US public broadcasting.
The BBC is much bigger and it's funding model much
more intrusive. You pay an annual tax of two hundred
and thirty bucks a year every British household watching any
live programming BBC or otherwise. It's a compulsory tax to
(09:19):
support the BBC with their payers.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
With their incredibly slanted news coverage. That's wild.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I know taxpayers. US taxpayers granted five hundred and
twenty five million dollars to public broadcasting. Well, therefore fires
cut off the bigot I was calling them with the
World's NPR or Britain's NPR, they're way more what we
always complain about NPR. NPR was getting taxpayer money, but
not near to that level. And to finish the comparison,
(09:50):
Corporation for Public Public Broadcasting got about half a billion
dollars from the government, okay, from taxpayers half a billion.
The BBC got five billion dollars wow, in tax money.
It is omnipresent, four entertainment oriented television channels, two children's channels,
feeds from Parliament local language channel channels in Scotland and Wales,
(10:13):
a domestic twenty four hour news channel, dozens of radio stations,
operates its own video and audio streaming services and several
smartphone apps. Yeah, Internationally, it combines news as public diplomacy
via the World Service, et cetera, et cetera. It is enormous.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
So the head of the BBC resigned and the number
two resigned Sunday night, and we did this story Monday morning.
And until then I was unaware the BBC was really
the biggest news organization on planet Earth.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I didn't know that. So it's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The fact that Brits put up with I assume about
half Brits don't agree with the politics of the BBC.
So y'all are paying that much money for something that
is propaganda that you don't believe in. That it's amazing.
Did it used to be more fair and that's how
it got going?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah. I love the left has moved so far left
in recent years, just like in the US. But he
makes one more really interesting observation. The fact that the
BBC is omnipresent in British society means that for decades
the BBC has served as the interior decorator, arranging Britain's
mental furniture, which is a nice metaphor, but the effect
(11:27):
is amplified because working at the BBC is a dream
job for many journalists and creatives, and that kills any
incentive to sattle your resume with any output that could
one day turn off a BBC hiring manager.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wow. So it is the super super.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Giant of journalism and you wouldn't dare put out anything
early in your career that would challenge the BBC's leftist
point of view.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Wow. So it's like, if you want to be a journalist,
the whole.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
World of media was the New York Times or the
old New York Times pre verry wise leaving New York Times.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Wow that's something.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, so good news.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Your relative died, but they can still talk to you
through AI, give you parenting advice. Grandma can talk to
your son. It's fantastic, isn't it? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Really?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What come? We'll get into that. You're gonna find this troubling.
Stay tuned. Can you tell that story or not tell
that story?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Not today?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So someday in the future, maybe that'd be a good one.
That'd be a good one because everybody's run into that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, yeah, never in doubt often wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Would the.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Uh we have a tiny bit of breaking news.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
President Trump says he's directing Attorney General Bondi to investigate
Bill Clinton's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So he's trying to turn the.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Table here at the end of the week, after a
full week of lefty in mainstream media going hard on Epstein,
he thinks, Okay, I got to get out in front
of this. Now he's going to have Bondy going after
the Clinton connection. So it's not just him.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Is Epstein the shark attacks of twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I hope not, because that would mean something bad is
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well, yeah, yeah. If you don't recall, just before nine
to eleven, there are all sorts of stupid news stories
about shark attacks. It became a craze in the media.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Is this going to become a craze? I do not know.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Like if I had video, I don't have any video
audio of my dad at all.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I should get some.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He's still with me perfectly fine, But if he passed away,
I don't have any audio and video of my dad.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I don't think, but if I did, I.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Could have him recreated by AI and you can have
you know, grandma talk to your kid, or maybe you're
passed away, mom, give you some advice on having a baby.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Here, here's a clip of that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He's getting bigger.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
See, oh my, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Kicking like crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
He's listening.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Put your hand on your tummy and hum to him.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You still love to say, Hi, Grandma, Hey, Charlie, I
was school today.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It was really fun.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Look it's going to be a great grandmother. Oh Charlie, congratulations.
She says that he's been kicking a lot though.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Tell her to put her hand on her tommy and
hum to him.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You loved that. You would have loved this moment.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You can call anytime.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I just so turned off by this.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So the creepy, creepy, creepy both examples.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So if I wanted my grandma to be involved in
my kid's childhood, I'm gonna lead my little kids when
they're too young to understand what's going on that they're
talking to Grandma.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Can Grandma come visit and not real.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
She's a busy that on the weekend of your birthday.
We'll have her on the computer.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And then and then do you get any actual comfort
or like warm feelings about having an AI version of
your grandma talk to you about your pregnancy in feigne
emotion and pretend it's like delight that little Charlie.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Whatever the hell little Charlie did he got an a
in his math class, or throw a ball or I
got lost there, but well the ball.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's wonderful, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, hey, hey, zombie granny, you don't have any emotions.
You're a bunch of circuits.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Maybe I'm missing something here. I would not feel actual comfort.
I think I would only get sadness out of this,
But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I tell you what. I figured it out listening to that,
because you asked earlier. Who would want that? The sort
of people who heard the music in that ad and
weren't immediately aware, Oh, they're trying to manipulate me emotionally
with his happy piano music. People who would miss that
would would sign up for this stupid app. We got
this email from John. I remember when my kids were
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watching the Harry Potter movies, there was a mirror that
Harry could use to see his ns one of the
head wizards. One of the head wizards, it was Dumbledore.
You illiterate anyway, I kid, Dumbledore talk to him about
how dangerous that was.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You can get lost in that, you will literate.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I was kidding. John's got a good sense of here already.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Knows that's right. Harry talked to his dead parents, of course.
That the idea was that they're like, it can actually,
you know, think and converse and it's not just a
made up computer voice and it's not completely phony.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It was like, all right, magic, it was his magic.
This is the magic of Ai God.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Damn, I hope this is not the where we're headed.
The people are going to do this. You know, when
you're a little kid and you talk to grandma, and
grandma's been dead for forty years, you weren't actually talking
to Grandma.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Sorry, ill idea Armstrong and Geddy In.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
An age of strange political stories, the John Fetterman's story
is a damned interesting one, beginning to end. We mocked
him when he was running for Senate in Pennsylvania endlessly
as a guy who'd never accomplished anything in his life
and seemed to be a socialist and had never had
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a real job and lived in his mom's basement and
blah blah blah, blah blah, and the whole wearing shorts
and a hoodie all the time and pretending to be
working class when you've never had a job and.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Went to Harvard, didn't he Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You did.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, if you wrote this story, nobody'd buy it. They'd
think this'n it's too crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Then, doney, he has a stroke what while he's running
for Senate kind of disappears for all, comes back. Remember,
has that weird debate with doctor Oz where he locks
up and makes no sense and everything like that, hands
up winning, partially because he's running against doctor Oz. Then
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then he gets into the Senate, and particularly after October seventh,
really showed himself to be an independent thinker, as being
a solid supporter of Israel and anti Hamast despite where
the direction his party was going, and lots of different things.
He's a very independent thinking guy, and I regularly agree
with him. He's got a memoir out New York Times,
(18:39):
says John Fetterman's memoir is unlike any politicians book you've read.
On a crowded shelf of memoirs by sitting politicians. John
Fetterman's new book has to be one of the strangest
you'll find, none of the genre's usual tropes.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
No can do optimism. That's why I.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Never read these things. Ridiculous. Usually they're not written by
the person and they're just never ending. Can do optimism,
affability the evidence of a politician's instinct to gladhand for
the next election. I mean, just you know, trying to
work you for the next time they run. And they're
just always so phony. It's like a campaign ad or whatever.
(19:17):
But that's not what it is.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
In this one.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's not entirely clear from Unfettered whether Federman plans to
ever run again for any election. And he talks about
how he had been in depth about being hospitalized for
a stroke for a few months before he beat doctor Oz,
and how when he was elected to the US Senate
he felt nothing. The next day he was in a
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daze of doom, staring at a bridge contemplating suicide. The
day after being elected to the US Senate. I'm not
actually read this. I find it really interesting. He doesn't
show up for a lot of votes, so I don't
know that you said earlier. You don't know why he
hasn't resigned. Maybe he's just going to play out his
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term and then never run again. Well, I just need
to support himself though, with some money from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, especially after his heart stoppage. I would think he's
either completely rededicated to being a senator and the time
he has left, or he wants to quit to not
you know, upset his ticker again. But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He is one of the Democrats who voted to reopen
the government by a way, So I haven't heard any
of this with Katie Kirk that we're about to play.
He did went on her podcast and I heard some
stuff about it. Sounded interesting. This is Fetterman talking to
news legend.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Katie Kirk, a father of young children, was shot in
public because of his political views, and that's a tragedy
and give people the space to grieve.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Do you think that flags should have been flown at
half staff? Do you think his body should have been
flown on air force too? Do you think he should
have posthumously given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I think
some people felt that that was perhaps over the top
in terms of mourning someone like Charlie Kirk, How did
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you feel about that?
Speaker 7 (21:17):
I'd say that that was his choice and his prerogative,
and that's that's where that's and that was that was
really entirely up to him.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Did you have any issues now in hindsight over some
of the things that Charlie Kirk said and some of
the rhetoric he used during his life.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I didn't agree with with much of it. I didn't
closely followed his specific kinds of views. That would never
justify what's happened.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What's the context of that question, Katie, What are you
driving at?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
She's trying to get him to say bad things about Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's what everybody does.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Trump went too far and honoring Charlie Kirk, and then
he dig deeper when they don't have a good answer.
That that's the only thing you can get out of
anything in politics. So to get you to say something
good about Trump or bad about Trump, that was very annoying.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Star follow up question the whole did they go too
far in the tributes? Now, that's Trump's prerogative. What about
Charlie Kirk's rhetoric? Do you have any issues with his rhetoric?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Sure, but what does that have to do with them
getting shot in the neck.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Back to the book, most of Unfettered is unrelentingly dour
and mournful. Despite having parents who quote provided me with
every comfort, Fetterman identifies strongly with blue collar workers who
feel betrayed and forgotten.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He recounts the many times he felt overwhelmed by shame
and self loathing. I didn't deserve anything except loneliness and
sadness and isolation. Who about themselves as an adult? I
didn't deserve just the stroke that brought on the depression. Obviously,
I didn't deserve anything except loneliness and sadness and isolation.
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In twenty twenty three, he spent six weeks at Walter
Reed National Military Medical Center being treated for severe depression.
Six weeks a month and a half is a long
time to be in the hospital for depression. His memoir
is dedicated to anyone with depression, which includes extended quotations
from staffers and family members who implored him to obtain
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medical treatment and stick with it. His wife spends a
lot of her time taking care to ensure that their
three children don't blame themselves for their father's state.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Wow, that's sad.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
His children covered Fetterman's hospital room with colorful post it
notes reminding him how much he has loved.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Wow, that's some powerful stuff there, My goodness. Yeah. The
fabulous and wise Peggy Noonan touches on his book and
kind of reviews it and points out that he doesn't
mind talking about where he stands and why, isn't afraid
of big issues, and is most animated when speaking of
his non progressive views. And she goes into some detail
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on that and compares it and contrasts it with Kamala
Harris's hilariously shallow book, which is hilariously shallow.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
The New York Times doesn't mention Kamala Harris, but they
beat up Fetterman for not taking, you know, a stronger
stand on certain issues and overlooking some issues he's been
on the wrong side of, and that sort of thing.
A guy just wrote a book about. He dedicates it
to people with depression. His book is about being a
guy who had a horrible depression and how it factors
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into his political life.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You don't get that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
He's not really interested in having to explain his views
on this vote or that vote.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Ah, find that interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Here's something they worth saying, I think. As he points
out there, he says the big turnaround for him with
his depression was doctors convincing him that, uh, how awful
it would be for his kids and his family if
he killed himself, and then all those post it notes
his family put up. That's an interesting thing to know
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if you're ever dealing with somebody with depression the whole
here's who you would affect and a reason to live
actually had an effect on a guy's depressed as am.
I've never been like that, Thank god, I can't imagine
what that's like, but that actually pulled him out of it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
The man, this would not be good for them.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely true. Yeah, I will just tell
you that's absolutely true. Speaking of a healthy mind, A
couple of thoughts, why don't we break semi on time?
A couple of thoughts about AI and and it's effect
on people's brains and just staying healthy in your head.
(25:51):
I don't want to give any more away than that.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Don't care. This is gonna be funny, deep, both.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Both both deep and funny. The old DNF. That's what
I bring to the table.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Huh, that's next day here.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Barmstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
This show created a bonding experience for like seventy thousand
people all at once.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
There's something very special about that.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
My main goal is to give something to the fans
that they didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's good Travis Chelsey.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
He brings a lot of happiness.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
We basically have the same job.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You got teen rage, I got.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Teenage, You've got coach read, I've got my mom.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So what is that?
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Michael Disney Plus December twelfth, the Taylor Swift docu series
coming on your TV screen.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Finally she's getting some attention. Well, if you're a Taylor
Swift fan, you would love that. Just like if I
saw Pete townshend was on Colbert the other night two
nights ago and talking about a bunch of stuff with
their new tour and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm gonna watch that because I think Pete Townson, you
like Taylor Swift. You're gonna watch that.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yep, yep. She actually comes off as quite charming.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I listened to Life as a Show a life of
a show girl on the way to work today.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's how much I like.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That nice teenage girl. Anyway, let's see where were we?
So I came across a couple of tweets in a
row that I thought were interesting. First was from Matt Walsh,
with whom I agree a substantial amount of the time,
but not always. But he writes AI is going to
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wipe out at least twenty five million jobs in the
next five to ten years, probably many more. It will
destroy every creative field. It will make it impossible to
discern reality from fiction. It will absolutely obliterate what's left
of the education system. Kids will go through twelve years
of grade school and learn absolutely nothing. AI will do
it all for them.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Well, well, I don't understand why that would be, though.
Why won't you learn anything because AI is teaching it?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I don't know if that to go around. I agree
with all those other ones. I'm not sure I agree
with that one.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Although he does say we have already seen the last
truly literate generation.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I think, if anything, AI could make it so much
easier to homeparent or create your own little school and
have the AI teachers with the kind of curriculum you want.
I don't understand why. Okay, I don't want to get
off on that, but that other stuff they mentioned. I
think all that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
The part about the last truly literate generation is right
because video has replaced reading.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
People do not read anymore. That's just a fact. And
it's horrifying. All of this is coming in fast. There's
still time to prevent some of the worst outcomes, or
at least put them off. But our leaders aren't doing
a single thing about any of them. I'm not sure, Matt,
there's anything they can do. None of them are taking
it seriously.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
We're sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can
see from miles away. It drives me nuts. Are we
really just going to lie down let Ai take everything
from us? Is that the plan?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I yes, there is zero that can be done about it.
I had this conversation with a smart person just the
other night. It's a well, we could either do it
and lead the way or let China lead the way.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Which do you think is going to be better? But
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And then I actually became aware of this because I
saw another tweet Michael Knowles joking well, it's an actual
groc search that he posted. Hey Groc, will you let
me keep my job if I agree to stop at
Waltz from talking smack about you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
It's fascinating a thing, a book or a podcast that
I was into literacy as a thing reading books has
only lasted and it's ending now. Only lasted about three
hundred years most people were illiterate. People regularly reading books
didn't happen until the seventeen hundreds, and now it's gonna
go away. So it had about a three hundred year
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lifespan for all of human history of people reading a blip.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
How interesting. And then this from another one of my
great favorite thinkers, Greg Lukianoff, who posts a quote from
Friedrich Nietzsche. He says Nietzsche isn't usually my guy. Too
many teenage would be Uber mentioned, obermentioned, but on walking
he nailed it. The quote is only thoughts that come
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by walking have any value. And he was actually commenting
on a tweet by someone else who says a ludicrous
number of the greatest thinkers in human history cited long
walks as the blueprint for developing a healthy and powerful mind.
But yeah, don't worry, you're different.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What was that first one from Nietzsche.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Only thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Wow, that is really good.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
But I was thinking, you know, Dylan O'Sullivan had that
second quote, and I was thinking, Yeah, of all the
great thinkers I've admired who have said I have my
greatest thoughts when I take a long walk, and not
a long walk while they're listening to perhaps our podcast
or scrolling through or whatever, just walking.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I wonder if a long drive would work too. Most
of these people said this before cars were a thing.
I do some great thinking if I'm driving and if
I leave the radio off or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Highway, this is not a good segment for beefing up
our business. But no, yeah, yeah, I've got to take
more long walks.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I actually really like it. My role in the morning
is uh, no inputs in the morning walk.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
The problem is I think that's absolutely true, and we
should probably all do more of that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But man, a walk with a really good podcast. It's fantastic.
It is so great.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It's one of my favorite things in life.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, I know, it's great.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, yeah, just a question of balance, I think probably,
like so many.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Things my kids, I just cannot get him into reading currently,
Henry's reading the original Jurassic Park book, Oh, Michael Crichton,
one of the best selling books of all time. Yeah,
he's reading it for school. I mean, he's being forced
to read, and I'm hoping it'll catch on. His brother
can't imagine anything worse than reading. I'll always say, if
I could do anything today, I would read all day long,
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read and play the piano all day long.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
And they had kill myself if I had to do.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But well, there's a contrast, I know. Yeah, you know, uh,
maybe you could get them that zombie Granny app and
have like your dad's dad encouraging your kids to read.
Wouldn't that be great? No, it'd be creepy and sick,
be weird. Yeah, yeah, so true. Anyway, unplugged down again, folks.
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Good for your mind, good for your soul.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
My brother made to MAYI videos of like my dad
dancing around that are hilarious, and I said, have you
shown these teams? He said, no, I'm not gonna let
him see you.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Why not it's I don't know why. I don't know why,
because I thought he would like it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
But it is weird to see to see somebody, you know,
doing something They never have done or would do.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Oh yeah, you gotta do that.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Go on grock or whatever the imagined thing you can
click on. It's free and it takes just a couple
of seconds. But you can make people do all kinds
of stuff that they would never do. And it's hilarious
the way it messages with your brain. Yeah, yeah, did
I tell you that I did mess with that?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Would? Judy and I have this still picture of us
in a punt which is like a fat gondola in Britain,
or took a punt ride down the river and I
just told it, have all jump in water, and it
had a video of us there in Cambridge on the
punt and the two of us in the gondolier the
punter all jumped into the water in this video look
(33:22):
perfectly realistic.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
A buddy of mine has got cancer and he's going through
some pretty hard treatment and I sent a video and
he sent a picture of him standing in front of
the hospital and I said, you look pretty good to
me and him jumping up and doing a handstand, which
he thought was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Wow, hey kids, it's that time again.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
With Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I used to tell you mess with that if you
haven't hit something. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. In the week.
There he is Michael Angelo in the control room, national treasure. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
All Right?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
I got an idea that new two way app. I'm
not going to use it for decease ones, but for
dead celebrities. So I was gonna do an AI, Bob
Saggat or Norm McDonald and become friends with them.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Cool, not at all disturbing. That's a good idea, Katie
Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought case, I.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Have written on my paper AI nor McDonald Really, Michael Angela, Yeah,
we're on the exact same page.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I see exactly what I would do.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Wow, that weird synchronicity or jack final thoughtfully stupid selfish
punt dum Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I uh. I went out to dinner with my kids
last night, kind of on the idea of like you know,
old school, no II phones put away and everything like that.
We just sat there waiting for our food, talking, eating,
hanging around.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
God dang it, there's nothing better than that. That's what
you need. Those are the inputs you need.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yes, that's life. Real people don't forget. My final thought
is crass commercialism. The ruin the entire country knew some
twenty twenty eight T shirt is really taking off. People
are loving it. We're working on some bumper stickers for you.
Oh here's gotta be Gavy's campaign slogan. Your final thought
was make yourself a little richer. We don't see that money.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
We don't know who gets it. The staff they do. Yeah,
you are You knew you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I handle the money and I've been robbing you blind
for years.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Armstrong and Getty Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Jack thinks he makes nineteen bucks an hour. Still so
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Speaker 3 (35:46):
No doubt, but we don't believe in silent letters. We
will see you on Monday, God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
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Speaker 5 (35:57):
The show is over, but ever go with.
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The Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong's Joe, Katty arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. I've gotten a
lot of texts similar to this one.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Jack.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm so sick of men talking to me at the gym.
I just want to work out. I used to wear
a leave me alone T shirt. If you have a
question about glutes, google it. Don't talk to me. But
uh that it would suck if that happens to you
all the time. I have a friend she wanted to
get into golfing, and she had her afternoons free, so
she'd go golfing by herself. She said she couldn't ever go.
(00:49):
She'd be out there golfing by herself. Every five minutes
some guy rides, hey, you want to golf with us?
Or you need somebody to golf with or blah blah
blah blah blah. Constantly She's just no, I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh that would wear you out, that would get annoying,
that would get knowing that people are looking at you.
Try Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'd attempted to go off on a tangent and what
I don't get from you dudes who do that sort
of thing. Do you really think an attractive woman golfing
alone just doesn't have any way to meet men, and
she just doesn't. It's that's why she's out there by herself.
She just has no way to meet a dude. So
you coming by talking to her? No, no, no, I
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don't think guys think that they see a fish within
the reach of their line, so they throw their line
in simple as that. I can see how it would
be very annoying tho as a woman that you'd think,
I can't go golf by myself, or I can't go
to the gym by myself because somebody talks to me
every five minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's too tiresome. Yeah, yeah, totally Yeah, unfortunate. Ah So
we've got a lot to squeeze into the final hour
of the week, But first let's take a fond look
back at the week that was. It's cow clips, the.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Week the bombshow release of what House Democrats say are
emails to and from deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
This vote is going to be on your record for
longer than Trump is going to be president, and.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Lauren Bowert herself was called here to the White House
had a meeting inside the Situation Room. These emails proved
absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did
nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Do you think President Trump has something to hide here?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I don't because I believe the women, and the women
have said over and over again that Donald Trump did
nothing wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, hundred flights have been canceled all across the US today.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My little one learned the word ice cream and she
maybe make sure I promised her to get her ice stream.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
When I get back home from the drip.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
That being said nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I'd say it comes to fake me that little girl
in her ice scream.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Longest government shut down in American history could be coming
to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I think the word of the day is terrible. No
way to defend this. You are right to be angry.
I hell not.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Turmoil at Britain's premiere broadcaster with President Trump right in
the middle.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Be there with you and we fight.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We fight like hell ready t ready play a bunch
of fashion in the fir he says, excuse me, sir,
so misgendering me right away. If you're not a woman,
that's obvious. This is a police matter.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We need.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was assault No, they are not. They are men.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I was assaulted.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Hey, optimist, you know where I can get a co
I can take you to the kitchen if you want
to check for a coke there. Oh yeah, that'd be great. Go, yes,
let's do that. This is a very big play. Don't
you think they have to get a touchdown. Let's put
it differently. They just got a touch out.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It is gonna be a great grandmother. Oh, Charley, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
We don't want to talk about it, we say.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
No, it's clips of the week.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We really ought to do the story about having your
dead relative talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
An AI chat bot halogram app of your dead granny.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So we'll do that coming up. I won't read all
the texts, getting lots of text about this whole gym interaction.
It's kind of an interesting thing. We got a number
of texts from I'm a woman and I wish guys
would hit on me and they don't, and it's hurtful.
Got that got this sort of thing. Don't dress like
a whore, and we'll leave you alone.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So that's uh, well, that's a kind of a different.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Nick fuintes in cell view of the whole.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Thing, I think, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm going to do
one Epstein email and I'll shut up about it. Newly
released emails shows that Epstein thought Trump was one of
the worst people he knew and doesn't have didn't have
one decent cell in his body. Well, he kicked you
(05:50):
out of the club, he clicked he kicked you out
of mar A Lago, so you're really really pissed off.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I understand that dynamic. Yeah I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I would certainly prefer that my politicians be really good
moral people. I have never thought that about Donald Trump.
He's effective, He's had some great policies. But yeah, if
somebody says, yeah, he's really not that moral a guy,
he's not really a good guy. Ring's fairly true to me.
Just have bigger problems than that.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We will get to the AI loved one passing thing
for you coming up soon. There are a number of
clips in the clips of the week that I would
comment on. A I don't know what to do about.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Clips of the Week.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We do this every week and I don't know any
way around it, but sometimes there's stuff in there that
I'm afraid you didn't hear, Like it's you know, it's
an ai voice and you think it's a real voice.
In this case, it was Donald Trump. It was actually
Donald Trump's voice, but he never said that clip that
we had in there. That was the falsely edited version
from BBC that they are now being about, and we
(07:01):
put it in Clips of the Week. BBC edited that together.
They were like two things Trump said and almost an
hour apart. They put it together to make it seem
like it was one thought. And now the head of
BBC and the number two at BBC, probably the most
important news organization on planet Earth, the head of that
(07:22):
news organization stepped down over that lying documentary that they.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Put out a little over a year ago, and they
should have.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I came across a great perspective on that from a
guy named Joseph Sternberg, who anyway, he's writing about that
that scandal, and he says from afar, it might look
as though the crisis englfing the British Broadcasting Corporation is
only about the dishonest editing of trump et cetera. Oh no, friends,
(07:51):
you're witnessing the meltdown of a core institution of British society.
And then he describes the editing scandal that you just described,
and so they did, they did all that, and he says,
for what, I defy any reader to furnish evidence that
a single American voter in twenty twenty four was swayed
(08:13):
by the BBC report about anything. No sensible BBC staffer
could have thought that airing this clip in this form
on the show would convey useful information about what a
Trump wind might mean for the domestic British audience that
watched it. And then he says, one suspects that the
panorama that was the show report was created solely to
tackle the emotional pleasure centers of the journalists involved in
(08:36):
the liberals among their audience. And then he points out, oh,
and then he goes into BBC's Arabic service which is
flamingly anti Israel, and the LGBTQ desk that suppresses anything
contrary to far left beliefs at the BBC. And then
the most interesting part to me was he says, this
(08:58):
is rocking Britain in a way that America. They struggle
to fathom if their frame of reference is US public broadcasting.
The BBC is much bigger and it's funding model much
more intrusive. You pay an annual tax of two hundred
and thirty bucks a year every British household watching any
live programming BBC or otherwise. It's a compulsory tax to
(09:19):
support the BBC with their payers.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
With their incredibly slanted news coverage. That's wild.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I know taxpayers. US taxpayers granted five hundred and
twenty five million dollars to public broadcasting. Well, therefore fires
cut off the bigot I was calling them with the
World's NPR or Britain's NPR, they're way more what we
always complain about NPR. NPR was getting taxpayer money, but
not near to that level. And to finish the comparison,
(09:50):
Corporation for Public Public Broadcasting got about half a billion
dollars from the government, okay, from taxpayers half a billion.
The BBC got five billion dollars wow, in tax money.
It is omnipresent, four entertainment oriented television channels, two children's channels,
feeds from Parliament local language channel channels in Scotland and Wales,
(10:13):
a domestic twenty four hour news channel, dozens of radio stations,
operates its own video and audio streaming services and several
smartphone apps. Yeah, Internationally, it combines news as public diplomacy
via the World Service, et cetera, et cetera. It is enormous.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
So the head of the BBC resigned and the number
two resigned Sunday night, and we did this story Monday morning.
And until then I was unaware the BBC was really
the biggest news organization on planet Earth.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I didn't know that. So it's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The fact that Brits put up with I assume about
half Brits don't agree with the politics of the BBC.
So y'all are paying that much money for something that
is propaganda that you don't believe in. That it's amazing.
Did it used to be more fair and that's how
it got going?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah. I love the left has moved so far left
in recent years, just like in the US. But he
makes one more really interesting observation. The fact that the
BBC is omnipresent in British society means that for decades
the BBC has served as the interior decorator, arranging Britain's
mental furniture, which is a nice metaphor, but the effect
(11:27):
is amplified because working at the BBC is a dream
job for many journalists and creatives, and that kills any
incentive to sattle your resume with any output that could
one day turn off a BBC hiring manager.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wow. So it is the super super.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Giant of journalism and you wouldn't dare put out anything
early in your career that would challenge the BBC's leftist
point of view.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Wow. So it's like, if you want to be a journalist,
the whole.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
World of media was the New York Times or the
old New York Times pre verry wise leaving New York Times.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Wow that's something.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, so good news.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Your relative died, but they can still talk to you
through AI, give you parenting advice. Grandma can talk to
your son. It's fantastic, isn't it? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Really?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What come? We'll get into that. You're gonna find this troubling.
Stay tuned. Can you tell that story or not tell
that story?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Not today?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So someday in the future, maybe that'd be a good one.
That'd be a good one because everybody's run into that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, yeah, never in doubt often wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Would the.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Uh we have a tiny bit of breaking news.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
President Trump says he's directing Attorney General Bondi to investigate
Bill Clinton's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So he's trying to turn the.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Table here at the end of the week, after a
full week of lefty in mainstream media going hard on Epstein,
he thinks, Okay, I got to get out in front
of this. Now he's going to have Bondy going after
the Clinton connection. So it's not just him.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Is Epstein the shark attacks of twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I hope not, because that would mean something bad is
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well, yeah, yeah. If you don't recall, just before nine
to eleven, there are all sorts of stupid news stories
about shark attacks. It became a craze in the media.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Is this going to become a craze? I do not know.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Like if I had video, I don't have any video
audio of my dad at all.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I should get some.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He's still with me perfectly fine, But if he passed away,
I don't have any audio and video of my dad.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I don't think, but if I did, I.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Could have him recreated by AI and you can have
you know, grandma talk to your kid, or maybe you're
passed away, mom, give you some advice on having a baby.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Here, here's a clip of that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He's getting bigger.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
See, oh my, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Kicking like crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
He's listening.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Put your hand on your tummy and hum to him.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You still love to say, Hi, Grandma, Hey, Charlie, I
was school today.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It was really fun.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Look it's going to be a great grandmother. Oh Charlie, congratulations.
She says that he's been kicking a lot though.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Tell her to put her hand on her tommy and
hum to him.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You loved that. You would have loved this moment.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You can call anytime.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I just so turned off by this.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So the creepy, creepy, creepy both examples.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So if I wanted my grandma to be involved in
my kid's childhood, I'm gonna lead my little kids when
they're too young to understand what's going on that they're
talking to Grandma.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Can Grandma come visit and not real.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
She's a busy that on the weekend of your birthday.
We'll have her on the computer.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And then and then do you get any actual comfort
or like warm feelings about having an AI version of
your grandma talk to you about your pregnancy in feigne
emotion and pretend it's like delight that little Charlie.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Whatever the hell little Charlie did he got an a
in his math class, or throw a ball or I
got lost there, but well the ball.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's wonderful, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, hey, hey, zombie granny, you don't have any emotions.
You're a bunch of circuits.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Maybe I'm missing something here. I would not feel actual comfort.
I think I would only get sadness out of this,
But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I tell you what. I figured it out listening to that,
because you asked earlier. Who would want that? The sort
of people who heard the music in that ad and
weren't immediately aware, Oh, they're trying to manipulate me emotionally
with his happy piano music. People who would miss that
would would sign up for this stupid app. We got
this email from John. I remember when my kids were
(16:20):
watching the Harry Potter movies, there was a mirror that
Harry could use to see his ns one of the
head wizards. One of the head wizards, it was Dumbledore.
You illiterate anyway, I kid, Dumbledore talk to him about
how dangerous that was.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You can get lost in that, you will literate.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I was kidding. John's got a good sense of here already.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Knows that's right. Harry talked to his dead parents, of course.
That the idea was that they're like, it can actually,
you know, think and converse and it's not just a
made up computer voice and it's not completely phony.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It was like, all right, magic, it was his magic.
This is the magic of Ai God.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Damn, I hope this is not the where we're headed.
The people are going to do this. You know, when
you're a little kid and you talk to grandma, and
grandma's been dead for forty years, you weren't actually talking
to Grandma.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Sorry, ill idea Armstrong and Geddy In.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
An age of strange political stories, the John Fetterman's story
is a damned interesting one, beginning to end. We mocked
him when he was running for Senate in Pennsylvania endlessly
as a guy who'd never accomplished anything in his life
and seemed to be a socialist and had never had
(17:38):
a real job and lived in his mom's basement and
blah blah blah, blah blah, and the whole wearing shorts
and a hoodie all the time and pretending to be
working class when you've never had a job and.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Went to Harvard, didn't he Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You did.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, if you wrote this story, nobody'd buy it. They'd
think this'n it's too crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Then, doney, he has a stroke what while he's running
for Senate kind of disappears for all, comes back. Remember,
has that weird debate with doctor Oz where he locks
up and makes no sense and everything like that, hands
up winning, partially because he's running against doctor Oz. Then
(18:15):
then he gets into the Senate, and particularly after October seventh,
really showed himself to be an independent thinker, as being
a solid supporter of Israel and anti Hamast despite where
the direction his party was going, and lots of different things.
He's a very independent thinking guy, and I regularly agree
with him. He's got a memoir out New York Times,
(18:39):
says John Fetterman's memoir is unlike any politicians book you've read.
On a crowded shelf of memoirs by sitting politicians. John
Fetterman's new book has to be one of the strangest
you'll find, none of the genre's usual tropes.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
No can do optimism. That's why I.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Never read these things. Ridiculous. Usually they're not written by
the person and they're just never ending. Can do optimism,
affability the evidence of a politician's instinct to gladhand for
the next election. I mean, just you know, trying to
work you for the next time they run. And they're
just always so phony. It's like a campaign ad or whatever.
(19:17):
But that's not what it is.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
In this one.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's not entirely clear from Unfettered whether Federman plans to
ever run again for any election. And he talks about
how he had been in depth about being hospitalized for
a stroke for a few months before he beat doctor Oz,
and how when he was elected to the US Senate
he felt nothing. The next day he was in a
(19:41):
daze of doom, staring at a bridge contemplating suicide. The
day after being elected to the US Senate. I'm not
actually read this. I find it really interesting. He doesn't
show up for a lot of votes, so I don't
know that you said earlier. You don't know why he
hasn't resigned. Maybe he's just going to play out his
(20:03):
term and then never run again. Well, I just need
to support himself though, with some money from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, especially after his heart stoppage. I would think he's
either completely rededicated to being a senator and the time
he has left, or he wants to quit to not
you know, upset his ticker again. But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He is one of the Democrats who voted to reopen
the government by a way, So I haven't heard any
of this with Katie Kirk that we're about to play.
He did went on her podcast and I heard some
stuff about it. Sounded interesting. This is Fetterman talking to
news legend.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Katie Kirk, a father of young children, was shot in
public because of his political views, and that's a tragedy
and give people the space to grieve.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Do you think that flags should have been flown at
half staff? Do you think his body should have been
flown on air force too? Do you think he should
have posthumously given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I think
some people felt that that was perhaps over the top
in terms of mourning someone like Charlie Kirk, How did
(21:15):
you feel about that?
Speaker 7 (21:17):
I'd say that that was his choice and his prerogative,
and that's that's where that's and that was that was
really entirely up to him.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Did you have any issues now in hindsight over some
of the things that Charlie Kirk said and some of
the rhetoric he used during his life.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I didn't agree with with much of it. I didn't
closely followed his specific kinds of views. That would never
justify what's happened.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What's the context of that question, Katie, What are you
driving at?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
She's trying to get him to say bad things about Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's what everybody does.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Trump went too far and honoring Charlie Kirk, and then
he dig deeper when they don't have a good answer.
That that's the only thing you can get out of
anything in politics. So to get you to say something
good about Trump or bad about Trump, that was very annoying.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Star follow up question the whole did they go too
far in the tributes? Now, that's Trump's prerogative. What about
Charlie Kirk's rhetoric? Do you have any issues with his rhetoric?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Sure, but what does that have to do with them
getting shot in the neck.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Back to the book, most of Unfettered is unrelentingly dour
and mournful. Despite having parents who quote provided me with
every comfort, Fetterman identifies strongly with blue collar workers who
feel betrayed and forgotten.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He recounts the many times he felt overwhelmed by shame
and self loathing. I didn't deserve anything except loneliness and
sadness and isolation. Who about themselves as an adult? I
didn't deserve just the stroke that brought on the depression. Obviously,
I didn't deserve anything except loneliness and sadness and isolation.
(23:00):
In twenty twenty three, he spent six weeks at Walter
Reed National Military Medical Center being treated for severe depression.
Six weeks a month and a half is a long
time to be in the hospital for depression. His memoir
is dedicated to anyone with depression, which includes extended quotations
from staffers and family members who implored him to obtain
(23:21):
medical treatment and stick with it. His wife spends a
lot of her time taking care to ensure that their
three children don't blame themselves for their father's state.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Wow, that's sad.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
His children covered Fetterman's hospital room with colorful post it
notes reminding him how much he has loved.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Wow, that's some powerful stuff there, My goodness. Yeah. The
fabulous and wise Peggy Noonan touches on his book and
kind of reviews it and points out that he doesn't
mind talking about where he stands and why, isn't afraid
of big issues, and is most animated when speaking of
his non progressive views. And she goes into some detail
(24:03):
on that and compares it and contrasts it with Kamala
Harris's hilariously shallow book, which is hilariously shallow.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
The New York Times doesn't mention Kamala Harris, but they
beat up Fetterman for not taking, you know, a stronger
stand on certain issues and overlooking some issues he's been
on the wrong side of, and that sort of thing.
A guy just wrote a book about. He dedicates it
to people with depression. His book is about being a
guy who had a horrible depression and how it factors
(24:36):
into his political life.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You don't get that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
He's not really interested in having to explain his views
on this vote or that vote.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Ah, find that interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Here's something they worth saying, I think. As he points
out there, he says the big turnaround for him with
his depression was doctors convincing him that, uh, how awful
it would be for his kids and his family if
he killed himself, and then all those post it notes
his family put up. That's an interesting thing to know
(25:09):
if you're ever dealing with somebody with depression the whole
here's who you would affect and a reason to live
actually had an effect on a guy's depressed as am.
I've never been like that, Thank god, I can't imagine
what that's like, but that actually pulled him out of it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
The man, this would not be good for them.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely true. Yeah, I will just tell
you that's absolutely true. Speaking of a healthy mind, A
couple of thoughts, why don't we break semi on time?
A couple of thoughts about AI and and it's effect
on people's brains and just staying healthy in your head.
(25:51):
I don't want to give any more away than that.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Don't care. This is gonna be funny, deep, both.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Both both deep and funny. The old DNF. That's what
I bring to the table.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Huh, that's next day here.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Barmstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
This show created a bonding experience for like seventy thousand
people all at once.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
There's something very special about that.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
My main goal is to give something to the fans
that they didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's good Travis Chelsey.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
He brings a lot of happiness.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
We basically have the same job.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You got teen rage, I got.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Teenage, You've got coach read, I've got my mom.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So what is that?
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Michael Disney Plus December twelfth, the Taylor Swift docu series
coming on your TV screen.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Finally she's getting some attention. Well, if you're a Taylor
Swift fan, you would love that. Just like if I
saw Pete townshend was on Colbert the other night two
nights ago and talking about a bunch of stuff with
their new tour and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm gonna watch that because I think Pete Townson, you
like Taylor Swift. You're gonna watch that.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yep, yep. She actually comes off as quite charming.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I listened to Life as a Show a life of
a show girl on the way to work today.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's how much I like.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That nice teenage girl. Anyway, let's see where were we?
So I came across a couple of tweets in a
row that I thought were interesting. First was from Matt Walsh,
with whom I agree a substantial amount of the time,
but not always. But he writes AI is going to
(27:28):
wipe out at least twenty five million jobs in the
next five to ten years, probably many more. It will
destroy every creative field. It will make it impossible to
discern reality from fiction. It will absolutely obliterate what's left
of the education system. Kids will go through twelve years
of grade school and learn absolutely nothing. AI will do
it all for them.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Well, well, I don't understand why that would be, though.
Why won't you learn anything because AI is teaching it?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I don't know if that to go around. I agree
with all those other ones. I'm not sure I agree
with that one.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Although he does say we have already seen the last
truly literate generation.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I think, if anything, AI could make it so much
easier to homeparent or create your own little school and
have the AI teachers with the kind of curriculum you want.
I don't understand why. Okay, I don't want to get
off on that, but that other stuff they mentioned. I
think all that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
The part about the last truly literate generation is right
because video has replaced reading.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
People do not read anymore. That's just a fact. And
it's horrifying. All of this is coming in fast. There's
still time to prevent some of the worst outcomes, or
at least put them off. But our leaders aren't doing
a single thing about any of them. I'm not sure, Matt,
there's anything they can do. None of them are taking
it seriously.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
We're sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can
see from miles away. It drives me nuts. Are we
really just going to lie down let Ai take everything
from us? Is that the plan?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I yes, there is zero that can be done about it.
I had this conversation with a smart person just the
other night. It's a well, we could either do it
and lead the way or let China lead the way.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Which do you think is going to be better? But
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And then I actually became aware of this because I
saw another tweet Michael Knowles joking well, it's an actual
groc search that he posted. Hey Groc, will you let
me keep my job if I agree to stop at
Waltz from talking smack about you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
It's fascinating a thing, a book or a podcast that
I was into literacy as a thing reading books has
only lasted and it's ending now. Only lasted about three
hundred years most people were illiterate. People regularly reading books
didn't happen until the seventeen hundreds, and now it's gonna
go away. So it had about a three hundred year
(29:39):
lifespan for all of human history of people reading a blip.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
How interesting. And then this from another one of my
great favorite thinkers, Greg Lukianoff, who posts a quote from
Friedrich Nietzsche. He says Nietzsche isn't usually my guy. Too
many teenage would be Uber mentioned, obermentioned, but on walking
he nailed it. The quote is only thoughts that come
(30:04):
by walking have any value. And he was actually commenting
on a tweet by someone else who says a ludicrous
number of the greatest thinkers in human history cited long
walks as the blueprint for developing a healthy and powerful mind.
But yeah, don't worry, you're different.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What was that first one from Nietzsche.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Only thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Wow, that is really good.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
But I was thinking, you know, Dylan O'Sullivan had that
second quote, and I was thinking, Yeah, of all the
great thinkers I've admired who have said I have my
greatest thoughts when I take a long walk, and not
a long walk while they're listening to perhaps our podcast
or scrolling through or whatever, just walking.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I wonder if a long drive would work too. Most
of these people said this before cars were a thing.
I do some great thinking if I'm driving and if
I leave the radio off or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Highway, this is not a good segment for beefing up
our business. But no, yeah, yeah, I've got to take
more long walks.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I actually really like it. My role in the morning
is uh, no inputs in the morning walk.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
The problem is I think that's absolutely true, and we
should probably all do more of that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But man, a walk with a really good podcast. It's fantastic.
It is so great.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It's one of my favorite things in life.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, I know, it's great.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, yeah, just a question of balance, I think probably,
like so many.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Things my kids, I just cannot get him into reading currently,
Henry's reading the original Jurassic Park book, Oh, Michael Crichton,
one of the best selling books of all time. Yeah,
he's reading it for school. I mean, he's being forced
to read, and I'm hoping it'll catch on. His brother
can't imagine anything worse than reading. I'll always say, if
I could do anything today, I would read all day long,
(31:55):
read and play the piano all day long.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
And they had kill myself if I had to do.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But well, there's a contrast, I know. Yeah, you know, uh,
maybe you could get them that zombie Granny app and
have like your dad's dad encouraging your kids to read.
Wouldn't that be great? No, it'd be creepy and sick,
be weird. Yeah, yeah, so true. Anyway, unplugged down again, folks.
(32:23):
Good for your mind, good for your soul.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
My brother made to MAYI videos of like my dad
dancing around that are hilarious, and I said, have you
shown these teams? He said, no, I'm not gonna let
him see you.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Why not it's I don't know why. I don't know why,
because I thought he would like it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
But it is weird to see to see somebody, you know,
doing something They never have done or would do.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Oh yeah, you gotta do that.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Go on grock or whatever the imagined thing you can
click on. It's free and it takes just a couple
of seconds. But you can make people do all kinds
of stuff that they would never do. And it's hilarious
the way it messages with your brain. Yeah, yeah, did
I tell you that I did mess with that?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Would? Judy and I have this still picture of us
in a punt which is like a fat gondola in Britain,
or took a punt ride down the river and I
just told it, have all jump in water, and it
had a video of us there in Cambridge on the
punt and the two of us in the gondolier the
punter all jumped into the water in this video look
(33:22):
perfectly realistic.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
A buddy of mine has got cancer and he's going through
some pretty hard treatment and I sent a video and
he sent a picture of him standing in front of
the hospital and I said, you look pretty good to
me and him jumping up and doing a handstand, which
he thought was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Wow, hey kids, it's that time again.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
With Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I used to tell you mess with that if you
haven't hit something. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. In the week.
There he is Michael Angelo in the control room, national treasure. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
All Right?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
I got an idea that new two way app. I'm
not going to use it for decease ones, but for
dead celebrities. So I was gonna do an AI, Bob
Saggat or Norm McDonald and become friends with them.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Cool, not at all disturbing. That's a good idea, Katie
Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought case, I.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Have written on my paper AI nor McDonald Really, Michael Angela, Yeah,
we're on the exact same page.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I see exactly what I would do.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Wow, that weird synchronicity or jack final thoughtfully stupid selfish
punt dum Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I uh. I went out to dinner with my kids
last night, kind of on the idea of like you know,
old school, no II phones put away and everything like that.
We just sat there waiting for our food, talking, eating,
hanging around.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
God dang it, there's nothing better than that. That's what
you need. Those are the inputs you need.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yes, that's life. Real people don't forget. My final thought
is crass commercialism. The ruin the entire country knew some
twenty twenty eight T shirt is really taking off. People
are loving it. We're working on some bumper stickers for you.
Oh here's gotta be Gavy's campaign slogan. Your final thought
was make yourself a little richer. We don't see that money.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
We don't know who gets it. The staff they do. Yeah,
you are You knew you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I handle the money and I've been robbing you blind
for years.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Armstrong and Getty Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Jack thinks he makes nineteen bucks an hour. Still so
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Speaker 3 (35:46):
No doubt, but we don't believe in silent letters. We
will see you on Monday, God bless America.
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