June 4, 2026 • 37 mins
Hour Two of A&G features....
- The Artificial Intelligence arms race...
- An Orange County CA man got rich selling tech to Iran...
- Lots of head butting in DC...
- Screwworm concerns!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jettie, I know he arms strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yetty, what's your message to those college students who, many
of them are worried that they won't be with their
jobs because of AI.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well, I think there will be a lot of jobs
in the future. I think that the impact on jobs
has been less than many people in our field expected,
and it doesn't mean that it will always stay the
way in the future. I think it's very understandable to
feel anxiety about this, but it at least hasn't gone
so far like people expected. Jobs will be different, the
economy will be different. But this is like an incredible
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new tool and people are incredibly creative, so they're using
it in all sorts of new ways, and I expect
that that will really continue and that we're still all
going to be, you know, working more than we wish
we were for a long time and being very productive
and container.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Ye go, everything is going to be fine for the
foreseeable future, according to Sam Altman of chat GPT, and
why wouldn't you believe him?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I feel silly that I was so worried.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I know, all that samba about having to have a
universal income because nobody's going to have a job.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What a waste of time flapping our jaws. Turns out
no need whatsoever. Things are be fine.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You heard it there, automated weapons systems wiping out humanity
at the behest of their computer overlords.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
All that is, Sam Altman didn't hear all those booze
across the country every time AI was mentioned at any
graduation and think I've got a serious pr problem with
my investment at all. He just sincerely believes this is
going to be good for everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Sure, hey, other people might be influenced by the trillion
of dollars I've spent already, but not me. I'm Sam Altman,
all right, scam Altman, leave elon. We mentioned yesterday that
Neil Ferguson had written a piece and titled AI is
the most Dangerous Armors Race in History. It's a rather
(02:15):
lengthy and I haven't read the whole thing, but I
was scanning it desperately because his premise is that we
really need wise intelligent regulation of AI so it doesn't
spin out of control. While simultaneously we're competing with Chiesi
Ping and the communist Chinese who don't have the slightest
interest in like regulation to keep it safe. And I
(02:40):
admit freely I did not read the whole thing. I
didn't have time, but I kept scanning it, like every topic,
sentence of every paragraph. All right, Neil, where do you
get to the what that would look like?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Part?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And I never found anything like a prescription? And that's
you know. And again I haven't read the whole thing,
So I'm not accusing Neil a be in complete or
anything like that, but I agree something needs to be done.
But what and what about the Chinese. Here's a small
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clue of the sort of thing that might come down
the pike.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The Wall Street.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Journal's writing about how the top AI CEOs and that's
the head guy for Google, whose name is Demis Hasabis,
Sam Altman, and Dario Amodi all came together in calling
for Congress to protect against biological threats posed by AI,
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specifically biological weapons and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh yeah, I remember we read that.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I think it was in the New York Times piece
about various scientists that are this is their biggest concern
is how easy it would be to build some sort
of biological weapon through AIS like just a regular person.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So those three guys are among the heavy eight signatories
of a letter urging Congress to require safeguards when companies
order synthetic DNA and RNA, which is a key step
in developing certain vaccines and biotech breakthroughs. What they're saying,
I actually like this this sentence that's from the letter.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'll read it to you.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
AI systems are improving rapidly, and alongside incredible benefits to
science and medicine, there is a real possibility that the
knowledge barriers which have historically prevented bad actors from obtaining
biological weapons will meaningfully erode.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, that's a meaning good way to put what I
was just trying to say.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yes, any numb nuts skin out to it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The how too is going to be available to virtually everyone,
or at least a hell of a lot of people,
and so the only thing we can do is carefully
screen who gets the building blocks. So you've got to
regulate the companies that sell the building blocks. It's like,
you know, you can't you can't order fifteen pounds of
sous go to a fedrin because the Feds. No, you're
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going to be making meth it. Maybe that's the best
we can do. It sounds to me super reassuring, is
that first thought. It's the only way we've got to
go about this.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
If there are six key components to making a biological weapon,
you've got to make sure the Amazons of the world
and everybody else you know, doesn't sell.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Them to people.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That will restrict the number of novel biological weapons that
will be unleashed. But it won't stop it. It can't.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, and that only helps in the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I mean, my example may not have been perfect, but
I mean there are various substances that are just absolutely
known virtually the only legitimate I'm not legitimate. The only
use for this is to manufacture drugs or weapons, and
everybody knows that. But you still get it on the
black market. If you have enough money, you can get anything.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I remember how troubling that story was. We had just
a couple of weeks ago. There weren't that many components,
and it wasn't that difficult to make some pretty awful
biological weapons. Uh wow. So imagine that in the hands
of Ted Kaczinski. The unibomber when he was running around.
If instead of his best he could do at the
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time homemade bombs he was mailing around, he could have
made some sort of biological weapon like that or al
Kaido or whoever. All right, right, and there have been
some like the famous terrible rice In attack or was
it attacks on Japanese subways that killed many many people
and anthrax and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I just.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's so worrisome. I remember being so troubled as a teenager.
I guess it was when I first became aware that
the Anarchists Cookbook was available in various libraries that taught
you how to make bombs and weapons and that sort
of thing. Turns out there's just not that many people
who want to make bombs and weapons, thank god. But
is the Ballustin marathon bombing showed us there are enough
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to be fairly horrifying. But those are not weapons of
mass destruction primarily, Yeah, I don't, I just you know,
I'm with Neil Ferguson. We need a set of rules
and referees. But what rules and who's the referee? Weapon
of mass destruction? But it doesn't have to kill masses.
But you wouldn't have to kill very many people with
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some sort of biological weapon in a New York City
subway or a big building in LA or whatever to
really cause a panic. Yeah, I mean, like a huge
it'd be the only thing we're talking about in the
whole country for days, maybe weeks. Yeah, if all of
a sudden, eight people died in an elevator and a
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big building in LA because of something somebody was able
to make online and wondering who it was, where it
came from, and where to they hit next. Yeah, And
there's just so many different sorts of bad actors who
would benefit from that sort of thing, whether it's you know,
Islamists or anarchists or even somebody who just wants to
short the stock market, right, I mean, yeah, maybe I'm
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bent to evil, but I can think of all sorts
of horrible motivations for that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, there's so many angles to this whole AI thing.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
So you've got the job thing that Sam Altman as
a liar is claiming isn't gonna be a problem, but
it's clearly going to be a problem. And he got
all the other stuff all tied into the whole AI thing,
and just the doomers. I'm so a doomer around AI
because they all don't have to come bad. Just one
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of them has to turn out to be a real
problem for it to be well a real problem.
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Speaker 2 (09:57):
Guys. Just looking up at the TV.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
There is some pretty decent rioting in New York last
night over game one of the New York Spurs Finals
Game one.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I'd like to know more about that. What if they
win the series? Well?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Is that sports fans or is it various activists using
the anonymity of crowds.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Do their evil doing? Looks like a combo. They're all
wearing knicked jerseys. Well that's a sign.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So let me tell you about this real briefly, although
as always we're practically running out of time. The Free
Press is, among other things, employed a bunch of different writers.
As we moved toward our two hundred and fiftieth birthday
as a country, great writers writing about some of their
favorite Americans through American history, and it's just terrific. I
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came across this one that I thought was great. Both
of us, Jack and I have always wanted to invent something,
and I haven't come up with anything worse than ham.
I remember my greatest effort was as like a kid
designed a car that ran not on gasoline. This is
in the seventies, so it was the era of the
Great Gasoline Crisis, the oil embargo, but on compressed air.
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The car would compress air and then blow it out
the back like a jet engine and propel itself down
the road. And I thought, I've really I've done it
here as a ten year old whatever. Then one of
my mom's friends said, what energy are you going to
use to compress the air.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I'm like, oh, damn it, that's right. Damn it. So
ended my career as an inventor.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Anyway, it was early in the eighteen hundreds when elisha Otis,
who was a farm boy in Vermont, he realized he
really didn't have much interest in raising crops, but the
machinery of agriculture fascinated him, and at age nineteen, he
took his mechanical instincts off to Troy, New York, which
was at the time an important note in American manufacturing
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the Industrial Revolution and everything, set up factories for manufacturers,
and just brought inventors in. Invented stuff himself and his
main breakthrough, And if you have a keen ear, you
might have noticed mister Otis's last name was.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He was looking across the Hudson.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
River at New York and was aware of the fact
that the thing holding back building skyscrapers higher, you know,
many storied buildings, was how dangerous elevators were because they
all worked on ropes and pulleys, and if the rope
or pulley broke or whatever, the elevator would plunge to the.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Bottom and kill everybody on I'm following you there, which
is a hell of a deal, and I think most
of us have it at least once in our lives
getting on an elevator.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Thought about that, but anyway, he came up with this
ingenious way to make sure it didn't happen, a safety
hoist that depended on notched guide rails along the shaft
and a flat spring attached to the roof of the car.
The spring ends were pulled in by the tension of
the hoisting rope. If the rope broke, the ends would
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shoot outward, catching the rail notches, and the car's descent
would be halted. And everybody's like, yeah, that sounds that
sounds great, a nice inventionere but and that's so sure.
So at the New York World's Fair in eighteen fifty four,
he hoisted himself up way at the top of a
structure he'd built, wow, in an open framework so everybody
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could watch pipes. Then he had the hoisting rope dramatically
severed by a saber, and the car lurched down and
was stopped as the crowd gasped, And almost immediately everybody
knew we can build tall buildings.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That is quite a stunt.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh, and he's you know, the fact that he was
a farm boy. It reminds me of the right brother's
bicycle repairman. That's what America is. That's exciting, it's great.
Don't tell your college professors that that's not true.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Don't let anybody tell you.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That I saw bugs, Bunny. If your elevator screaming to
the ground. You just step off right before it hits
the ground, right likewise likewise your airplane. Yeah, just step
right out everything. It's June. We got a whole bunch
of Supreme Court decisions that are supposed to come out soon.
Maybe we'll hit you with that and a lot of
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other stuff we got for you to stick around.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
The CEO of a tech company is under arrest in
Orange County, California, accused of selling US computer technology to
the Iranian government. Jomshead Gomi, a dual US Iranian citizen,
facing federal charges of violating US sanctions. His company, based
in TEHRANI, allegedly helped Iran acquire networking security and encryption
equipment for more than a decade.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, I think this story has legs. This.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I think this story is going to blow up to
be some of our best encryption stuff. A lot of
different things that he gave to Iran that we don't
want Iran to have a What was he doing here?
How did he get here? Who was funding his life
and all that sort of stuff. He lived in a
thirty five million dollar Newport Beach mansion that's expensive even
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by fancy pants house standards.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I have some pants that are very fancy, and that's
an expensive house. He's just a he was a black
markets here, he's in you know, he can do an
arms dealer, but not arms.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
How did he pull this off for so many years
without getting caught?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
But what are you suggesting? You say it's going to
blow up and be a bigger story. I'm not sure
what you mean.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I just think we're going to find out that the
Iranian government was more involved in in this guy's dealings
than you know, not just just one, just not this
dude going to be a full on, you know, enemy
of the United States.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, well he was akin to a spy and an
industrial thief.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah. Conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Okay, if that's what you have to get in with.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yeah, over ten years, he secretly shipped two hundred and
fifty tons of US networking encryption equipment to Iran, including
the entities tied to its nuclear military sectors. Two hundred
and fifty tons wow of equipment. Yeah, he shipped right
away with him the flaws, Yeah exactly? Or was he
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the only guy involved? It seems like that would be
impossible money laundering generated ten plus million dollars a year,
but reported twenty thousand dollars income to the IRS. You
live in a thirty five million dollar home and you
claim you're making twenty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, Hey, I'm a saver. He is claiming low listed
Well he was. I'm frugal.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
He claimed low income tax credits for seven years while
I'm living at a thirty five million dollar home and
shipping gazillions of tons of secret equipment to Iran.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We were talking about a similar jackass earlier in the week.
But I truly don't get So. You're running a many, many,
many millions of dollars elicit to an arms deal essentially
arms trading deal or computer trading deal, and you cheat
on your taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Right, Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I think the government Iran would have said, hey, how
about you go ahead and pay your taxes, pay your
fair share. Wait in your case, would you see you
don't get caught. His home was funded by illegal sales.
He bought the lot for about four and a half
million dollars back in twenty ten, spent ten million dollars
building the home, seven million dollars in foreign wire transfers
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back and forth to Iran.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
How do we not catch on to this guy?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I go to the bank to get seven grand
in cash to buy a used pickup truck, and they
grill me like I'm al Capone.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Exactly exactly. I think there'll be more shoes to drop
on this story. I was hot in Congress yesterday. We
got some of the back and forth in the various hearings.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Staker, Arstrom and Getty Rubio.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Faced hated pressure from House Democrats in a hearing that
at times veered off topic.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
You couldn't admit that the shoes the President bought you
were too big.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
We're talking about shoes? Are you guys kidding me? I mean,
is this the Foreign Affairs Committee? Or is this like
a circus? What is this?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I don't know anything about the hearing yesterday. I read
a little bit about it in some of the quotes.
But yeah, finally somebody has said that we're having a
hearing about a really important topic.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How about we.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Talk about that as opposed to use it as an
opportunity to talk on whatever a hot talk radio or
cable news item has come up over the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
TikTok. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The working title of the show this morning was close
up Congress or just take a big sharpie and crossout
Article one of the Constitution because it no longer works anymore.
Yesterday was a landmark day in Congress, embarrassing itself well and.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
So if you didn't see that thing for a couple
of weeks ago, and I never nailed down was it
real or not? But anyway, Trump gave out a bunch
of shoes to people for whatever reason, Oh, these are the.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Best dress shoes, and gave people's shoes.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
And the claim on the internet anyway was that he
gave a pair that was way too big but for
Marco Rubia. But Marco Ruby wore them anyway, rather than
tell his boss that the shoes don't fit. I have
no idea if that was ai are real either way,
it doesn't make a difference to me. I mean, that's
an interesting story on its own, kind of but not
as big a deal as war with Iran and Marco
saying this.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Is the Foreign Relations Committee.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I mean, this is supposed to be among the most
hardest to get on committees and most serious committees we
have in all of the federal government.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Right, this is not the sort of.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Committee where you bring up stuff that's off a hot
reel on YouTube and weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, exactly, Oh my god, it's inexcuseable. That's a representative
kam Legger Dove continuing to grill Marco.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Here, the onus is on you to prove that there
is no corruption happening. That is responsibility as the Secretary
of State. And you know what, normally we would have
access to that data.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's the transparency.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
You're not showing us any receipting. Well, then show us,
show I have the documentation. You don't have this time yet.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
What kind of thing is this? What is this?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
You know, you get asked questions for five minutes and
you don't get time to answer.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
It's not a hearing think you said, what is this
a dunk tank?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
It helps that he was a US senator, so he
knows how all that sort of stuff works, because if
you came in from some other area of life, you
wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't know the rules of reclaiming time and all
that sort of stuff. But he does.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Back to our TikTok Instagram government, this is Senator Thom
Tillis of North Carolina chatting with Scott Bessant.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Did you actually tell Paulty you were going to punch
him in the face.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
No, sir, I actually said it was going to kick
his ass.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Good, okay, good, I share the emotion.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And as I said, that was last summer, summer twenty five,
and the many teams have fights in the locker room
and then go out and win for the team on
the table.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's a good line. Yeah, that's an excellent line.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Scott Bessant continues, this happened to be a Senate hearing
talking to lisping communist Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Is that right? Yeah? This is something else.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Senator Wyden has mendaciously slandered the Treasury Building in an
attempt to cover up his son having an investment meeting
with Jeffrey Epstein to ask for funding.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Thank you, Chairman.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Yes, let's be clear here, nobody is interested in the
ramblings of a capo in the most corrupt regime in
American history. We want to get some facts about this deal.
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Thank you, well, thank you, and I will ask my
questions first today, and we would like to hear what
Adam Widen and Jeffrey Epstein talked about. Your son's largest
investment position was Rix Cabaret. So did your son and
Jeffery Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him
for money using your limited credibility?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Should I just perceive? I'm going to perceive with my questions.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Meanwhile, same day, same government. Go with Bill Malugin's report
in sixty five.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
Here DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen under oath before the
Household Land Security Committee today where things quickly went off
the rails.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Are you calling me a racist?
Speaker 12 (23:05):
Hey, I'm asking a question, reclaiming my time asking him
to shut up as a pretty it's my time.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
To call me a racist.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
Chairman Secretary Mullen getting into several heated exchanges with committee democrats.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That is not true.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Don't accuse me of something that is not without you
all you want, but don't accuse me.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Of That's plenty of that. Michael the first to lunatic.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
There was soon to be former Congressman Al Green, who
is finally mercifully leaving the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But good, shut up, shut.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Up, He's saying to the Secretary of Homeland Security, is
best at the highly ranked in gay person in Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Yes, correct, So I was trying to find it came
across something the other day I thought was really good
of how it's Pride Month and there are no biopics
or specials or awards being given, or they aren't. He
isn't not being welcomed on the view or all the
leading parades anywhere as the first gay, openly gay secretary
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of the Treasury, which is a pretty big position.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And nothing because you don't highest ranking openly gay fella
in American political history.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
In our nation's history and nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
No, that's because it's a hardcore leftist Pride month, not gay.
And actually, on that topic, there's some really interesting poll
numbers about the eroding support for gay rights, marriage, et
cetera in general, because and I'm going to skip to
my analysis, and it's pretty clear that it's because the
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l t q BC R three, you know, all the
attempt to tie every sexual weirdness to gay people. People
are like, no, if you ask me to endor or
reject the whole thing, I'm rejecting the whole thing, which
is uncool. I mean, right, but your average gay person
doesn't deserve that, right, but you know it's a pretty floppy,
(25:12):
easy way to go about it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Just that whole thing whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right, right? Yeah. Meanwhile, so who's this representative Miller? I'm
not sure. I know he got into it again, same day,
same government on the House floor with Rashidah to Leeb
seventy one.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So let us be clear.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Has Belah is a terrorist organization from the gentleman lady
from Michigan, and its members are butchers.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That you like to hang out with. To a certain extent, no.
Speaker 12 (25:48):
Nation can be fully sovereign when an armed group.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Operates outside the authority of if it's elected.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh, I'm sorry, are we getting a lot of emotional.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
Gentlemen will suspend?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh, gentleman will spend. But I couldn't sue you out there.
She's yelling at him off, Mike, Do we know what?
Speaker 11 (26:08):
I certainly believe you advocate for them.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
Yes, you advocate for terrorists on.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
A daily basis. The house will be in order, okay,
for a.
Speaker 12 (26:16):
Terrorist regime every single day from the Jenny lady from Michigan.
The House will be in order. The House will be
in order.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Do associate yourself with him.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Colleagues, colleagues, this is a serious topic. We will debate
it respectfully and deliberately. Is the gentlewoman from Michigan making
a motion to take down?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
That is a direct attack on my character.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
The words down, gentlemen from Ohio will be.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's an accurate assessment, though be careful, Congressman Miller, she
will uh.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I probably shouldn't say that. You probably.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
She believes in political violence. She backs many groups that
believe in political violence. So I'd watch your back, sir.
That's all one day of madness, insanity, name calling, shit
with a cane, no canings. I remember this discussion, Jack,
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in which you Manfly Manfly admitted that you were wrong
back in the day, saying I'm wrong like once a
day at least.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But this was one of your.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
More manful admissions of wrongness, when back in the day
you used to say, why do they tap dance around
calling each other a liar?
Speaker 13 (27:41):
With all this, my gentle colleague from the great state
of isleward accord is his eighs and elephants ire has
misstated a fact.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, just just get to us say he's lying. But
it's funny.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Once you open up name calling, it's a good lesson
for life, maybe marriages or businesses or whatever. Once you
get away from I'm not sure your facts meet up
with the current data or your statement meets up with
our current data as opposed to you liar. Once you
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start into you liar, it just did. It's just that
it's two people saying you liar. You know you're a liar,
and that's where you are.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
There are a number of examples of that sort of
thing in society. It's like if you demanded a coat
and tie at the lawful house, I think you'd have
fewer fistfights. It's just it's the idea of decorum. Are
we going to have decorum or are we not? You'd
have fewer customers. Also, I'd hate to get to egg
yolk on my tie to more of this sort of
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Speaker 5 (29:53):
I just saw a trivia effect the last time the
New York Nicks were leading in the NBA Finals June
nineteen ninety four, same day as the High Speed Bronco
chase or the low speed Bronco chase with OJ.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's funny.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I remember was at my girlfriend's house watching the next game,
or watching the NBA Finals at the time, and then
it broke in with the OJ Bronco chase. But that's
the last time the Knicks. That's how long it's been
since they were leading in the OJJ himself shocked. Yeah, wha,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
When was the last time you felt such.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Anticipations, such on the edge of your seat tension?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Is the slow speed chase?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I don't want anybody to get their head cut off,
but we need a bonding moment like that in the
United States, something that we all rally around. It's not politics,
some soap opera story that we all get involved in.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
You don't think that could happen again.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
If shoes and cars and coffee are now right coded
or left coded, the Bronco chase would be you think, yeah,
you think it would use me the patriarchy and systemic racism,
and the left would entirely go with OJ.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, it might be right with OJ. Yeah for cutting
off a white woman's head.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh, and then and murdering a poor waiter who just
was returning some sunglasses.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yeah, there's more to it than that, but he was
boffing OJ's wife.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Strange life. Listen to you. Are you okay with murder?
Are you? Are you a Luigi mangioniist.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Terrible driving riding around in your car. I ain't saying
it's right, but I understand. As Chris Rock once said, right.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Trembling stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
I'd say, uh, if you have any open wounds, stay
away from the border. Oh boy, I'll explain why, coming
up next.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
He Finally, McDonald's is trying to attract more customers by
making hand breaded chicken, although I don't know if I
love their new slogan, our hands.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Are all over your breast.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Hand breaded chicken at McDonald Well, I'll try it, and
it's either good or it's not.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I'll tell you it's not good.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Flesh eating bacteria, having maggots all over you, that's not good.
We talked to you yesterday about this new World screw worm,
which we had eradicated in the United States back in
the sixties, but it was south of the border, and
an now it's across the border. They got the first
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infection in Texas. They found a calf that had it
and can get into animals and cause real problems. And
the beef industry is absolutely huge in Texas, many billions
of dollars at steak. But it also can get onto people.
The thing that's interesting about this New World screwworm is
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that it feeds on living flesh of warm blooded animals,
not dead things like Maggot's. Typically, you know that's a
dead animal thing. This is a it's looking for live animals,
so open wounds are a real risk. If you're anywhere
where they've got the New World Screwworm, or the NWS
as they call it, would you like some details of
(33:27):
what it's gonna be like if you get.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It, just so you know, no, because you might get it. No,
I won't. You don't think you're gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
This one of the uh uh, one of the things
you to watch out for malaise. So if anytime I
feel just kind of tired, I can think, oh, but
I got that. Dang you know what, but I'm full
of screw worms. I stand corrected. I've got it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I've had it for years exactly. I've been walking around
with it my whole life flew like symptoms is that next.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Uh yeah, some of the some of the symptoms are
a weight too gross obviously for the air. Yeah, I
don't want it, but it it enters through any sort
of opening you have, whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
So the next time I ear it, just I should
assume that one of those is burrowing its way into
my brain.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
It's funny here it listed your orify that it could
come through, and it left one out. I wonder if
that was just trying to be polite, because there's one
on the list that we all have. I mean, they're
like opinions, really, and.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I'm familiar and it doesn't wow.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You know, I'm tempted to go down this road, but
I'm trying so hard to hold on to some decorum.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Unlike Congress.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
It's only the female worms that lay eggs in your
open wounds, navel or body openings that not surprising.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Screw worm bitches exactly. Oh, I've lost decorum anyway. I'm sorry, folks.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
It was a major problem way back in the fifties
and uh and we spent a lot of money and
time and effort to eradicate it from the United States.
But it is back and hopefully won't take off the
Texas cattle industry alone is worth fifteen billion dollars, not
to mention all the other.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
States that are you know, baking cattle.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
And if you have pets, it can become a real
problem too, because pets often have some.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Sort of open wound. Right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Sure, I'm not anti immigration per se. We've talked about
this many times throughout the years, but it does strike
me that if you're talking about invasive species or pests
like this, or.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Whooping cough or what whooping cough.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Or diseases that we don't have immunity for or whatever,
there are absolutely risks to any population anywhere from unfettered
to interchange around the world.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, there are reasons civilizations have borders.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
People weren't getting whooping cough until we opened up our borders.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Nobody had even thought about whooping cough.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Why does that get I'll come every time you hear
a story about the wooing whooping cough epidemic popping up
here and there, it isn't attached to the open borders
story it ought to be, or to berculosis or any
of the other stuff that's come back.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
No, our lying media is uncomfortable with that.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We don't want to give any fodder to nativists and racists.
By telling them the truth, they helping them make a
measured decision.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
They do want to tie it into right wing nut
jobs who won't get their vaccines, which is a thing,
but that's not why I got whooping cough. I got
the shot as a little kid, like we all did,
and it wore off. But nobody cared before that. It
wore off because it didn't exist in the country.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
M Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah, so that snake handling over tanned steroid nut is
definitely a factor in the story, but not in your story,
per se.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Speaking of science, that famous famous study that convinced that
everybody that if you don't indulge your child's transgender notions,
they will commit suicide. The true story of that study,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Well that should be known. Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Yeah, if you missed the segment the podcast Armstrong and
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jettie, I know he arms strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yetty, what's your message to those college students who, many
of them are worried that they won't be with their
jobs because of AI.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well, I think there will be a lot of jobs
in the future. I think that the impact on jobs
has been less than many people in our field expected,
and it doesn't mean that it will always stay the
way in the future. I think it's very understandable to
feel anxiety about this, but it at least hasn't gone
so far like people expected. Jobs will be different, the
economy will be different. But this is like an incredible
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new tool and people are incredibly creative, so they're using
it in all sorts of new ways, and I expect
that that will really continue and that we're still all
going to be, you know, working more than we wish
we were for a long time and being very productive
and container.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Ye go, everything is going to be fine for the
foreseeable future, according to Sam Altman of chat GPT, and
why wouldn't you believe him?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I feel silly that I was so worried.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I know, all that samba about having to have a
universal income because nobody's going to have a job.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What a waste of time flapping our jaws. Turns out
no need whatsoever. Things are be fine.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You heard it there, automated weapons systems wiping out humanity
at the behest of their computer overlords.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
All that is, Sam Altman didn't hear all those booze
across the country every time AI was mentioned at any
graduation and think I've got a serious pr problem with
my investment at all. He just sincerely believes this is
going to be good for everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Sure, hey, other people might be influenced by the trillion
of dollars I've spent already, but not me. I'm Sam Altman,
all right, scam Altman, leave elon. We mentioned yesterday that
Neil Ferguson had written a piece and titled AI is
the most Dangerous Armors Race in History. It's a rather
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lengthy and I haven't read the whole thing, but I
was scanning it desperately because his premise is that we
really need wise intelligent regulation of AI so it doesn't
spin out of control. While simultaneously we're competing with Chiesi
Ping and the communist Chinese who don't have the slightest
interest in like regulation to keep it safe. And I
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admit freely I did not read the whole thing. I
didn't have time, but I kept scanning it, like every topic,
sentence of every paragraph. All right, Neil, where do you
get to the what that would look like?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Part?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And I never found anything like a prescription? And that's
you know. And again I haven't read the whole thing,
So I'm not accusing Neil a be in complete or
anything like that, but I agree something needs to be done.
But what and what about the Chinese. Here's a small
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clue of the sort of thing that might come down
the pike.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The Wall Street.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Journal's writing about how the top AI CEOs and that's
the head guy for Google, whose name is Demis Hasabis,
Sam Altman, and Dario Amodi all came together in calling
for Congress to protect against biological threats posed by AI,
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specifically biological weapons and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh yeah, I remember we read that.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I think it was in the New York Times piece
about various scientists that are this is their biggest concern
is how easy it would be to build some sort
of biological weapon through AIS like just a regular person.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So those three guys are among the heavy eight signatories
of a letter urging Congress to require safeguards when companies
order synthetic DNA and RNA, which is a key step
in developing certain vaccines and biotech breakthroughs. What they're saying,
I actually like this this sentence that's from the letter.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'll read it to you.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
AI systems are improving rapidly, and alongside incredible benefits to
science and medicine, there is a real possibility that the
knowledge barriers which have historically prevented bad actors from obtaining
biological weapons will meaningfully erode.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, that's a meaning good way to put what I
was just trying to say.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yes, any numb nuts skin out to it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The how too is going to be available to virtually everyone,
or at least a hell of a lot of people,
and so the only thing we can do is carefully
screen who gets the building blocks. So you've got to
regulate the companies that sell the building blocks. It's like,
you know, you can't you can't order fifteen pounds of
sous go to a fedrin because the Feds. No, you're
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going to be making meth it. Maybe that's the best
we can do. It sounds to me super reassuring, is
that first thought. It's the only way we've got to
go about this.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
If there are six key components to making a biological weapon,
you've got to make sure the Amazons of the world
and everybody else you know, doesn't sell.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Them to people.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That will restrict the number of novel biological weapons that
will be unleashed. But it won't stop it. It can't.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, and that only helps in the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I mean, my example may not have been perfect, but
I mean there are various substances that are just absolutely
known virtually the only legitimate I'm not legitimate. The only
use for this is to manufacture drugs or weapons, and
everybody knows that. But you still get it on the
black market. If you have enough money, you can get anything.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I remember how troubling that story was. We had just
a couple of weeks ago. There weren't that many components,
and it wasn't that difficult to make some pretty awful
biological weapons. Uh wow. So imagine that in the hands
of Ted Kaczinski. The unibomber when he was running around.
If instead of his best he could do at the
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time homemade bombs he was mailing around, he could have
made some sort of biological weapon like that or al
Kaido or whoever. All right, right, and there have been
some like the famous terrible rice In attack or was
it attacks on Japanese subways that killed many many people
and anthrax and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I just.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's so worrisome. I remember being so troubled as a teenager.
I guess it was when I first became aware that
the Anarchists Cookbook was available in various libraries that taught
you how to make bombs and weapons and that sort
of thing. Turns out there's just not that many people
who want to make bombs and weapons, thank god. But
is the Ballustin marathon bombing showed us there are enough
(07:02):
to be fairly horrifying. But those are not weapons of
mass destruction primarily, Yeah, I don't, I just you know,
I'm with Neil Ferguson. We need a set of rules
and referees. But what rules and who's the referee? Weapon
of mass destruction? But it doesn't have to kill masses.
But you wouldn't have to kill very many people with
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some sort of biological weapon in a New York City
subway or a big building in LA or whatever to
really cause a panic. Yeah, I mean, like a huge
it'd be the only thing we're talking about in the
whole country for days, maybe weeks. Yeah, if all of
a sudden, eight people died in an elevator and a
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big building in LA because of something somebody was able
to make online and wondering who it was, where it
came from, and where to they hit next. Yeah, And
there's just so many different sorts of bad actors who
would benefit from that sort of thing, whether it's you know,
Islamists or anarchists or even somebody who just wants to
short the stock market, right, I mean, yeah, maybe I'm
(08:06):
bent to evil, but I can think of all sorts
of horrible motivations for that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, there's so many angles to this whole AI thing.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
So you've got the job thing that Sam Altman as
a liar is claiming isn't gonna be a problem, but
it's clearly going to be a problem. And he got
all the other stuff all tied into the whole AI thing,
and just the doomers. I'm so a doomer around AI
because they all don't have to come bad. Just one
(08:35):
of them has to turn out to be a real
problem for it to be well a real problem.
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Speaker 2 (09:57):
Guys. Just looking up at the TV.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
There is some pretty decent rioting in New York last
night over game one of the New York Spurs Finals
Game one.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I'd like to know more about that. What if they
win the series? Well?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Is that sports fans or is it various activists using
the anonymity of crowds.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Do their evil doing? Looks like a combo. They're all
wearing knicked jerseys. Well that's a sign.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So let me tell you about this real briefly, although
as always we're practically running out of time. The Free
Press is, among other things, employed a bunch of different writers.
As we moved toward our two hundred and fiftieth birthday
as a country, great writers writing about some of their
favorite Americans through American history, and it's just terrific. I
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came across this one that I thought was great. Both
of us, Jack and I have always wanted to invent something,
and I haven't come up with anything worse than ham.
I remember my greatest effort was as like a kid
designed a car that ran not on gasoline. This is
in the seventies, so it was the era of the
Great Gasoline Crisis, the oil embargo, but on compressed air.
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The car would compress air and then blow it out
the back like a jet engine and propel itself down
the road. And I thought, I've really I've done it
here as a ten year old whatever. Then one of
my mom's friends said, what energy are you going to
use to compress the air.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I'm like, oh, damn it, that's right. Damn it. So
ended my career as an inventor.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Anyway, it was early in the eighteen hundreds when elisha Otis,
who was a farm boy in Vermont, he realized he
really didn't have much interest in raising crops, but the
machinery of agriculture fascinated him, and at age nineteen, he
took his mechanical instincts off to Troy, New York, which
was at the time an important note in American manufacturing
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the Industrial Revolution and everything, set up factories for manufacturers,
and just brought inventors in. Invented stuff himself and his
main breakthrough, And if you have a keen ear, you
might have noticed mister Otis's last name was.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He was looking across the Hudson.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
River at New York and was aware of the fact
that the thing holding back building skyscrapers higher, you know,
many storied buildings, was how dangerous elevators were because they
all worked on ropes and pulleys, and if the rope
or pulley broke or whatever, the elevator would plunge to the.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Bottom and kill everybody on I'm following you there, which
is a hell of a deal, and I think most
of us have it at least once in our lives
getting on an elevator.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Thought about that, but anyway, he came up with this
ingenious way to make sure it didn't happen, a safety
hoist that depended on notched guide rails along the shaft
and a flat spring attached to the roof of the car.
The spring ends were pulled in by the tension of
the hoisting rope. If the rope broke, the ends would
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shoot outward, catching the rail notches, and the car's descent
would be halted. And everybody's like, yeah, that sounds that
sounds great, a nice inventionere but and that's so sure.
So at the New York World's Fair in eighteen fifty four,
he hoisted himself up way at the top of a
structure he'd built, wow, in an open framework so everybody
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could watch pipes. Then he had the hoisting rope dramatically
severed by a saber, and the car lurched down and
was stopped as the crowd gasped, And almost immediately everybody
knew we can build tall buildings.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That is quite a stunt.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh, and he's you know, the fact that he was
a farm boy. It reminds me of the right brother's
bicycle repairman. That's what America is. That's exciting, it's great.
Don't tell your college professors that that's not true.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Don't let anybody tell you.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That I saw bugs, Bunny. If your elevator screaming to
the ground. You just step off right before it hits
the ground, right likewise likewise your airplane. Yeah, just step
right out everything. It's June. We got a whole bunch
of Supreme Court decisions that are supposed to come out soon.
Maybe we'll hit you with that and a lot of
(14:25):
other stuff we got for you to stick around.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
The CEO of a tech company is under arrest in
Orange County, California, accused of selling US computer technology to
the Iranian government. Jomshead Gomi, a dual US Iranian citizen,
facing federal charges of violating US sanctions. His company, based
in TEHRANI, allegedly helped Iran acquire networking security and encryption
equipment for more than a decade.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, I think this story has legs. This.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I think this story is going to blow up to
be some of our best encryption stuff. A lot of
different things that he gave to Iran that we don't
want Iran to have a What was he doing here?
How did he get here? Who was funding his life
and all that sort of stuff. He lived in a
thirty five million dollar Newport Beach mansion that's expensive even
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by fancy pants house standards.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I have some pants that are very fancy, and that's
an expensive house. He's just a he was a black
markets here, he's in you know, he can do an
arms dealer, but not arms.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
How did he pull this off for so many years
without getting caught?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
But what are you suggesting? You say it's going to
blow up and be a bigger story. I'm not sure
what you mean.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I just think we're going to find out that the
Iranian government was more involved in in this guy's dealings
than you know, not just just one, just not this
dude going to be a full on, you know, enemy
of the United States.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, well he was akin to a spy and an
industrial thief.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah. Conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Okay, if that's what you have to get in with.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yeah, over ten years, he secretly shipped two hundred and
fifty tons of US networking encryption equipment to Iran, including
the entities tied to its nuclear military sectors. Two hundred
and fifty tons wow of equipment. Yeah, he shipped right
away with him the flaws, Yeah exactly? Or was he
(16:41):
the only guy involved? It seems like that would be
impossible money laundering generated ten plus million dollars a year,
but reported twenty thousand dollars income to the IRS. You
live in a thirty five million dollar home and you
claim you're making twenty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, Hey, I'm a saver. He is claiming low listed
Well he was. I'm frugal.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
He claimed low income tax credits for seven years while
I'm living at a thirty five million dollar home and
shipping gazillions of tons of secret equipment to Iran.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We were talking about a similar jackass earlier in the week.
But I truly don't get So. You're running a many, many,
many millions of dollars elicit to an arms deal essentially
arms trading deal or computer trading deal, and you cheat
on your taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Right, Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I think the government Iran would have said, hey, how
about you go ahead and pay your taxes, pay your
fair share. Wait in your case, would you see you
don't get caught. His home was funded by illegal sales.
He bought the lot for about four and a half
million dollars back in twenty ten, spent ten million dollars
building the home, seven million dollars in foreign wire transfers
(17:56):
back and forth to Iran.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
How do we not catch on to this guy?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I go to the bank to get seven grand
in cash to buy a used pickup truck, and they
grill me like I'm al Capone.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Exactly exactly. I think there'll be more shoes to drop
on this story. I was hot in Congress yesterday. We
got some of the back and forth in the various hearings.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Staker, Arstrom and Getty Rubio.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Faced hated pressure from House Democrats in a hearing that
at times veered off topic.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
You couldn't admit that the shoes the President bought you
were too big.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
We're talking about shoes? Are you guys kidding me? I mean,
is this the Foreign Affairs Committee? Or is this like
a circus? What is this?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I don't know anything about the hearing yesterday. I read
a little bit about it in some of the quotes.
But yeah, finally somebody has said that we're having a
hearing about a really important topic.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How about we.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Talk about that as opposed to use it as an
opportunity to talk on whatever a hot talk radio or
cable news item has come up over the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
TikTok. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The working title of the show this morning was close
up Congress or just take a big sharpie and crossout
Article one of the Constitution because it no longer works anymore.
Yesterday was a landmark day in Congress, embarrassing itself well and.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
So if you didn't see that thing for a couple
of weeks ago, and I never nailed down was it
real or not? But anyway, Trump gave out a bunch
of shoes to people for whatever reason, Oh, these are the.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Best dress shoes, and gave people's shoes.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
And the claim on the internet anyway was that he
gave a pair that was way too big but for
Marco Rubia. But Marco Ruby wore them anyway, rather than
tell his boss that the shoes don't fit. I have
no idea if that was ai are real either way,
it doesn't make a difference to me. I mean, that's
an interesting story on its own, kind of but not
as big a deal as war with Iran and Marco
saying this.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Is the Foreign Relations Committee.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I mean, this is supposed to be among the most
hardest to get on committees and most serious committees we
have in all of the federal government.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Right, this is not the sort of.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Committee where you bring up stuff that's off a hot
reel on YouTube and weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, exactly, Oh my god, it's inexcuseable. That's a representative
kam Legger Dove continuing to grill Marco.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Here, the onus is on you to prove that there
is no corruption happening. That is responsibility as the Secretary
of State. And you know what, normally we would have
access to that data.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's the transparency.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
You're not showing us any receipting. Well, then show us,
show I have the documentation. You don't have this time yet.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
What kind of thing is this? What is this?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
You know, you get asked questions for five minutes and
you don't get time to answer.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
It's not a hearing think you said, what is this
a dunk tank?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
It helps that he was a US senator, so he
knows how all that sort of stuff works, because if
you came in from some other area of life, you
wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't know the rules of reclaiming time and all
that sort of stuff. But he does.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Back to our TikTok Instagram government, this is Senator Thom
Tillis of North Carolina chatting with Scott Bessant.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Did you actually tell Paulty you were going to punch
him in the face.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
No, sir, I actually said it was going to kick
his ass.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Good, okay, good, I share the emotion.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And as I said, that was last summer, summer twenty five,
and the many teams have fights in the locker room
and then go out and win for the team on
the table.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's a good line. Yeah, that's an excellent line.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Scott Bessant continues, this happened to be a Senate hearing
talking to lisping communist Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Is that right? Yeah? This is something else.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Senator Wyden has mendaciously slandered the Treasury Building in an
attempt to cover up his son having an investment meeting
with Jeffrey Epstein to ask for funding.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Thank you, Chairman.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Yes, let's be clear here, nobody is interested in the
ramblings of a capo in the most corrupt regime in
American history. We want to get some facts about this deal.
That's what we're here for.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Thank you, well, thank you, and I will ask my
questions first today, and we would like to hear what
Adam Widen and Jeffrey Epstein talked about. Your son's largest
investment position was Rix Cabaret. So did your son and
Jeffery Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him
for money using your limited credibility?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Should I just perceive? I'm going to perceive with my questions.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Meanwhile, same day, same government. Go with Bill Malugin's report
in sixty five.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
Here DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen under oath before the
Household Land Security Committee today where things quickly went off
the rails.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Are you calling me a racist?
Speaker 12 (23:05):
Hey, I'm asking a question, reclaiming my time asking him
to shut up as a pretty it's my time.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
To call me a racist.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
Chairman Secretary Mullen getting into several heated exchanges with committee democrats.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That is not true.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Don't accuse me of something that is not without you
all you want, but don't accuse me.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Of That's plenty of that. Michael the first to lunatic.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
There was soon to be former Congressman Al Green, who
is finally mercifully leaving the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But good, shut up, shut.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Up, He's saying to the Secretary of Homeland Security, is
best at the highly ranked in gay person in Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Yes, correct, So I was trying to find it came
across something the other day I thought was really good
of how it's Pride Month and there are no biopics
or specials or awards being given, or they aren't. He
isn't not being welcomed on the view or all the
leading parades anywhere as the first gay, openly gay secretary
(24:16):
of the Treasury, which is a pretty big position.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And nothing because you don't highest ranking openly gay fella
in American political history.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
In our nation's history and nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
No, that's because it's a hardcore leftist Pride month, not gay.
And actually, on that topic, there's some really interesting poll
numbers about the eroding support for gay rights, marriage, et
cetera in general, because and I'm going to skip to
my analysis, and it's pretty clear that it's because the
(24:48):
l t q BC R three, you know, all the
attempt to tie every sexual weirdness to gay people. People
are like, no, if you ask me to endor or
reject the whole thing, I'm rejecting the whole thing, which
is uncool. I mean, right, but your average gay person
doesn't deserve that, right, but you know it's a pretty floppy,
(25:12):
easy way to go about it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Just that whole thing whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right, right? Yeah. Meanwhile, so who's this representative Miller? I'm
not sure. I know he got into it again, same day,
same government on the House floor with Rashidah to Leeb
seventy one.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So let us be clear.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Has Belah is a terrorist organization from the gentleman lady
from Michigan, and its members are butchers.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That you like to hang out with. To a certain extent, no.
Speaker 12 (25:48):
Nation can be fully sovereign when an armed group.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Operates outside the authority of if it's elected.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh, I'm sorry, are we getting a lot of emotional.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
Gentlemen will suspend?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh, gentleman will spend. But I couldn't sue you out there.
She's yelling at him off, Mike, Do we know what?
Speaker 11 (26:08):
I certainly believe you advocate for them.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
Yes, you advocate for terrorists on.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
A daily basis. The house will be in order, okay,
for a.
Speaker 12 (26:16):
Terrorist regime every single day from the Jenny lady from Michigan.
The House will be in order. The House will be
in order.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Do associate yourself with him.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Colleagues, colleagues, this is a serious topic. We will debate
it respectfully and deliberately. Is the gentlewoman from Michigan making
a motion to take down?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
That is a direct attack on my character.
Speaker 12 (26:48):
The words down, gentlemen from Ohio will be.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's an accurate assessment, though be careful, Congressman Miller, she
will uh.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I probably shouldn't say that. You probably.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
She believes in political violence. She backs many groups that
believe in political violence. So I'd watch your back, sir.
That's all one day of madness, insanity, name calling, shit
with a cane, no canings. I remember this discussion, Jack,
(27:22):
in which you Manfly Manfly admitted that you were wrong
back in the day, saying I'm wrong like once a
day at least.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But this was one of your.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
More manful admissions of wrongness, when back in the day
you used to say, why do they tap dance around
calling each other a liar?
Speaker 13 (27:41):
With all this, my gentle colleague from the great state
of isleward accord is his eighs and elephants ire has
misstated a fact.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, just just get to us say he's lying. But
it's funny.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Once you open up name calling, it's a good lesson
for life, maybe marriages or businesses or whatever. Once you
get away from I'm not sure your facts meet up
with the current data or your statement meets up with
our current data as opposed to you liar. Once you
(28:17):
start into you liar, it just did. It's just that
it's two people saying you liar. You know you're a liar,
and that's where you are.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
There are a number of examples of that sort of
thing in society. It's like if you demanded a coat
and tie at the lawful house, I think you'd have
fewer fistfights. It's just it's the idea of decorum. Are
we going to have decorum or are we not? You'd
have fewer customers. Also, I'd hate to get to egg
yolk on my tie to more of this sort of
(28:48):
fabulous analysis.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
After a word from our.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Friends had in cognate did you know every spam call,
every scam text, every sketchy email with your name starts
the same way somebody found you had a data broker's
site right now. But it's a beautiful thing about in
cognatey is they reach out to them over and over
and over again and demand your data be taken down.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Would you like to sign up for our rewards program?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
You get ten percent off of this purchase blah blah blah,
and then they sell your information of people, and then
they sell it and it's all over the place, yestard,
and then you can get all these scam emails, texts, calls,
all this different sort of stuff, and you've probably tried
to stop it on your own. It don't work. It
does work within Cogni because you can disappear. They contact
hundreds of data brokers legally force them to remove your information,
(29:34):
and you're gonna notice a drop right away in the
spam calls, emails, and texts.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
They can't spam you if they can't find you.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And right now you can get sixty percent off with
an exclusive deal at in cognity dot com. Slash armstrong
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Speaker 5 (29:53):
I just saw a trivia effect the last time the
New York Nicks were leading in the NBA Finals June
nineteen ninety four, same day as the High Speed Bronco
chase or the low speed Bronco chase with OJ.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's funny.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I remember was at my girlfriend's house watching the next game,
or watching the NBA Finals at the time, and then
it broke in with the OJ Bronco chase. But that's
the last time the Knicks. That's how long it's been
since they were leading in the OJJ himself shocked. Yeah, wha,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
When was the last time you felt such.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Anticipations, such on the edge of your seat tension?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Is the slow speed chase?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I don't want anybody to get their head cut off,
but we need a bonding moment like that in the
United States, something that we all rally around. It's not politics,
some soap opera story that we all get involved in.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
You don't think that could happen again.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
If shoes and cars and coffee are now right coded
or left coded, the Bronco chase would be you think, yeah,
you think it would use me the patriarchy and systemic racism,
and the left would entirely go with OJ.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, it might be right with OJ. Yeah for cutting
off a white woman's head.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh, and then and murdering a poor waiter who just
was returning some sunglasses.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yeah, there's more to it than that, but he was
boffing OJ's wife.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Strange life. Listen to you. Are you okay with murder?
Are you? Are you a Luigi mangioniist.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Terrible driving riding around in your car. I ain't saying
it's right, but I understand. As Chris Rock once said, right.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Trembling stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
I'd say, uh, if you have any open wounds, stay
away from the border. Oh boy, I'll explain why, coming
up next.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
He Finally, McDonald's is trying to attract more customers by
making hand breaded chicken, although I don't know if I
love their new slogan, our hands.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Are all over your breast.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Hand breaded chicken at McDonald Well, I'll try it, and
it's either good or it's not.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I'll tell you it's not good.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Flesh eating bacteria, having maggots all over you, that's not good.
We talked to you yesterday about this new World screw worm,
which we had eradicated in the United States back in
the sixties, but it was south of the border, and
an now it's across the border. They got the first
(32:42):
infection in Texas. They found a calf that had it
and can get into animals and cause real problems. And
the beef industry is absolutely huge in Texas, many billions
of dollars at steak. But it also can get onto people.
The thing that's interesting about this New World screwworm is
(33:03):
that it feeds on living flesh of warm blooded animals,
not dead things like Maggot's. Typically, you know that's a
dead animal thing. This is a it's looking for live animals,
so open wounds are a real risk. If you're anywhere
where they've got the New World Screwworm, or the NWS
as they call it, would you like some details of
(33:27):
what it's gonna be like if you get.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It, just so you know, no, because you might get it. No,
I won't. You don't think you're gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
This one of the uh uh, one of the things
you to watch out for malaise. So if anytime I
feel just kind of tired, I can think, oh, but
I got that. Dang you know what, but I'm full
of screw worms. I stand corrected. I've got it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I've had it for years exactly. I've been walking around
with it my whole life flew like symptoms is that next.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Uh yeah, some of the some of the symptoms are
a weight too gross obviously for the air. Yeah, I
don't want it, but it it enters through any sort
of opening you have, whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
So the next time I ear it, just I should
assume that one of those is burrowing its way into
my brain.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
It's funny here it listed your orify that it could
come through, and it left one out. I wonder if
that was just trying to be polite, because there's one
on the list that we all have. I mean, they're
like opinions, really, and.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I'm familiar and it doesn't wow.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You know, I'm tempted to go down this road, but
I'm trying so hard to hold on to some decorum.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Unlike Congress.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
It's only the female worms that lay eggs in your
open wounds, navel or body openings that not surprising.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Screw worm bitches exactly. Oh, I've lost decorum anyway. I'm sorry, folks.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
It was a major problem way back in the fifties
and uh and we spent a lot of money and
time and effort to eradicate it from the United States.
But it is back and hopefully won't take off the
Texas cattle industry alone is worth fifteen billion dollars, not
to mention all the other.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
States that are you know, baking cattle.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
And if you have pets, it can become a real
problem too, because pets often have some.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Sort of open wound. Right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Sure, I'm not anti immigration per se. We've talked about
this many times throughout the years, but it does strike
me that if you're talking about invasive species or pests
like this, or.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Whooping cough or what whooping cough.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Or diseases that we don't have immunity for or whatever,
there are absolutely risks to any population anywhere from unfettered
to interchange around the world.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, there are reasons civilizations have borders.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
People weren't getting whooping cough until we opened up our borders.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Nobody had even thought about whooping cough.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Why does that get I'll come every time you hear
a story about the wooing whooping cough epidemic popping up
here and there, it isn't attached to the open borders
story it ought to be, or to berculosis or any
of the other stuff that's come back.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
No, our lying media is uncomfortable with that.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We don't want to give any fodder to nativists and racists.
By telling them the truth, they helping them make a
measured decision.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
They do want to tie it into right wing nut
jobs who won't get their vaccines, which is a thing,
but that's not why I got whooping cough. I got
the shot as a little kid, like we all did,
and it wore off. But nobody cared before that. It
wore off because it didn't exist in the country.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
M Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah, so that snake handling over tanned steroid nut is
definitely a factor in the story, but not in your story,
per se.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Well, right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Speaking of science, that famous famous study that convinced that
everybody that if you don't indulge your child's transgender notions,
they will commit suicide. The true story of that study,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Well that should be known. Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
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