January 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Main stream media instilling fear over deportations & Trump taking back power
- Mailbag!
- China's DeepSeek AI is #1 in Apple/Google App stores & The BIPOC song
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Jackie and he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arm Drong live from the Factist.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Healthcake that is the post Trump factist presidency under a
theocraphy of oligart On a Tuesday, sure words, never spoken signor.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I was just watching MSNBC and they got me all
frightened about something. I don't even know what they're talking about. Today,
we're under the tutelage of our general.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Manager, Donald J. Trump, executive branch cracking the whipper in chief.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
By god, Seriously, I was watching MSNBC and you it's
a combination of fascist dictatorship slash theocracy slash billionaire titan oligarchy,
hellscape of racism and greed is what we're living under.
(01:28):
Is that what they think their viewers want? I don't know.
We'll see if it works for them. That's something though.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
They're eleven viewers, I don't know. They ought to just
ask them one by one what they want.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
That's an excellent point. They can call all their viewers
in the morning, say what would you like today? What
do you what are you in the mood for and
then just crack the shore on it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
To me, increasingly, the cable news especially, but even your
your network news is are merely objects of amusement there, uh,
you know, the relics of days gone by. They're they're flailing,
They're full of crap, and I just I don't I
don't think they need to be paid much.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Heed, Honestly, I would agree with you. So what is it?
Just so? Is information just so dispersed now that there's
no go to what's the mainstream media talking about today?
Does that just not exist anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, they're a handful, I think, and cable news is
still fun to to be rate and make fun of.
You know, I think your New York Times, your WA
Poe have a fair amount of poll and significance, but
the list is very short these days.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, I would agree there's no need to comment on
things that are irrelevant. But what is relevant?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I mean? Actually, I was slipping channels last night and
there was the read out with Joy read and I thought,
why not let's dive in, let's catch a little of
it live. But she was just sitting there looking mildly
attentive while some guest of hers was ranting on about
roughly what you just said, and I thought, now, I'm
not here for that guy. I want to hear joy
(03:10):
read special brand of unhinged, you know, moronitudes, and I
wasn't getting it.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So I kept flipping right, and I realized, if you're
under forty five, probably you don't even know what these
channels are or who these people are. And good for you.
That's just the way things change. What was the general
manager again?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And why?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It was a rambling description of Trump's a strong executive,
a seizing of executive power. All right, it's quite remarkable
and a lot of you folks, depending on how deeply
you dig into the news, I've heard some of the
headline stuff, but I mean he is like completely restructured
Foreign Aid and the Justice Department and the State Department,
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and I would suggest you're going to see some serious
changes in the way Black History Month is presented by
the government. He's making change, which is left right and center.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, no doubt about that, for better or worse on
all these different categories. And lots of illegals rounded up yesterday,
including in San Francisco and Los Angeles, which we'll get
into more. But that continues to be a hot story
and long overdue and much appreciated by most of America,
which again the mainstream media doesn't seem to grasp. My
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favorite story going on is certainly this whole AI China thing.
Holy crap, Nvidia lost two thirds of a trillion dollars
of their stock price yesterday, which is really something. If
it turns out to be true that you can do
a whole eight AI thing with regular.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Chips, at least China did so. I don't know, I
don't know how that's going well, jack I Joe Geddy
often referred to as the great Contrarian. At least I'd
like to get that going. This is a huge, hugely
overrated thing. You can see bounce back it is. It's overblown.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, and why do you think that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm no drama? Remember no drama Obama. He was a
freaking Shakespeare festival next to me. Okay, I am no drama, Joe.
I will I will explain going forward. But the long
and short some of the claims are unproven. Also, it's
much easier to follow the leaders and say, hey, I've
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almost caught up to you, and I spent less money.
But that's you know what not being a leader is.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, I hope you're right. It'd be somewhat troubling if
for whatever reason, China can come up with a better
social media algorithm than anything we've been able to come
up with, and they can come up with faster, better
AI than us, that would be not be a good sign.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The social media algorithm thing is indisputable. TikTok is an
evil miracle.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, I guess that's why I think it's definitely possible
on the AI thing. I mean, we got a lot
of money being spent on trying to come up with
a TikTok like AI, and we haven't come up with
anything as good as what they got. I don't know
why it wouldn't be true for you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I also, but of course you're not the great contrarian?
Are you? The great go alonger? Guys?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They call it like everybody calls you. Let's start to
show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Tuesday, January twenty eighth, year twenty twenty five.
Where I'm strong in getting an approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
If GC is easier and quicker for you, you can
just go with that. It's less compersome. All right, let's
begin the show now officially according to FCC Rules of Regulations.
Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
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Speaker 5 (06:54):
LESTI in gay by tans gender.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Well the place sing sing along if you know the words?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Okay, that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Is you know, Jack, I'm so sorry you're stuck in
tragic traffic because Katie's horror. She reeled from that, just
as if she a blow was struck. Well, because I
saw that video.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And instantly missed who I was before I saw it,
that f and psycho.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Anyway, everybody found down. Everybody keep going, well, okay, Jack,
So what was that? Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
So the worst person on the planet is here?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That was That's a singer by the name of Molly
Gawler who's released a new woke anthem Jack entitled bypok Okay.
Is this an actual, like known singer or is this
I mean, because everybody's a singer, Michael sings something right now,
See he's a singer. Yeah, I'm not a singer at all.
(07:59):
I know she a singer singer or I don't actually know.
I just thought it was so damn funny it is.
We're gonna hear the whole thing later. I'm sure. Oh,
there's a fair amount to it. Yes, yes, it ull
doesn't get any better. Oh that's fan See that's what
we need mirth. Well, yes, clearly. I don't know if
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that fits in with the GC's uh you know, and
I will I will not be contrary against that point. Yeah,
I agree completely. Yeah, Katie C. If you can figure
out who this babe is, oh great, I just don't
don't dos her and rule her life. She's an idiot.
An idiot is not a capital offense. Well, she's a cultist.
Oh my gosh, being an idiot is not a capital offense.
(08:45):
Did you speak of bipop Did you see some of
the stuff that leaked out. We'll have to get to
that today. From a number of different parts of the
government now that they're rooting out the d DEI where
oh where they were emphasize that we need an BIPOC
person for this slot and a BIPOC person for that slot.
(09:06):
Where the emphasis was on racial preferences. Yeah, there was
a big piece where did I see that? A lot
of folks are talking about it at Colorado State University,
A lot of colleges and universities are utterly defiant in
well defying federal law. They are doing quotas, they are
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doing affirmative action, race based hiring, just completely. They believe
their university campuses are little fiefdoms. They're like Indian reservations
that are not subject to the laws of the United
States of America. I suggest the United States of America
does something about it. Yeah, that's really interesting. As following
the argument on about this the other day, after Trump
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released his Dei rules last week and when the Supreme
Court decided to do away with the sort of vermittive
action thing that have been going on in colleges forever,
John Roberts now famously said, and it probably going to
become more famous over time, the best way to end
racism is to end racism, right. I mean, it's just
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so simply true. And the fact that we had it
going on at so many different levels in universities and
the government and the industries and that sort of thing.
I know how we'll fix racism with more racism. Lots
and lots of racism. Yeah, they're still teaching it to
your children today at school. Yeah, really interesting. So I'll
talk more about that later. Cool. How does mailbag look
coming along? It's it's coming together, it's coming along, and
(10:37):
it's out in the same state as that Gal's song.
It's early versions. When you say it's coming on that
because you have people behind the scenes that are working
on it, may they hand you the finished copy? Is
that the way it works? Yeah? Yeah, there's a committee
team of they report to a different committee. Finally it
gets to me and then I give the royal ya
(10:57):
orne right thumbs up, like these are the Great Caesar fantastic.
So that's not to be confused with the great What
was that contrarian? You're the great? Right? If you're going
to be that, you're gonna have to remember it. Uh
Text line four one five two nine five kftcre from
tomorrow the long awaited RFK Junior hearing. The editorial board
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of The New York Post out with a piece today
and they're a pretty trumpy outfit. Vote Republican Senators vote
no on RFK Junior. And here's why. Those of you
who are not alone no, those of you who are
RFK Junior fans, I assume you're thinking about, uh, well,
you're not thinking about some of the issues that you
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agree with wholeheartedly that he does not, and you just
haven't heard it yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, more on
that to come. Why don't we go ahead and get
into our freedom loving court of the day continued is
our series unchanged? George Bernard Shaw. Progress is impossible without change,
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and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Of course, the flip of that is what you're always saying.
All change is not progress, and there is a certain
crowd that believes any change is progress. Yes, I've actually
heard various lovely poet type people say change is what
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I believe in. And for whatever reason, when you're young,
because I remember being young it was a long time ago,
you're built to want to change things even when your
life's perfectly fine, it's weird. I think about the rebellious
years when everything was fine. I lived in a fine
place and everything was fine. Why did I want everything
to be torn down? I have no idea, right, And
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I think that's natural though. It's the way we're made.
It's part of God's plan, or Nature's or somebody or
others maybe RFK juniors, And that's fine. But it is
also perfectly fine. Speaking of things, that are fine for
those of the rest of us to say, noe, what
we're doing works perfectly well, you're not old enough to understand,
pipe down perfectly play some sort of weird frisbee game
in the field, and spoke in marijuana, perfectly fine for
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the old older people to say, shut up exactly, mail bag,
don't shut up, drop us a note, mail Bag at
Armstrong and Getty dot com. Can you imagine, folks, a
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so well crafted that a blind man himself founded a
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I am totally blind. I've heard all kinds of jokes,
and I cringe when I hear somebody joke about blindness,
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the One More Thing podcast yesterday, was not only unique,
he was utterly over the top awesome. The national treasure
that is Michaelangelo taking a starring role in yesterday's One
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More Thing podcast Armstrong and Getty One More Thing, Thanks
for the note, Frank, good hear from me. Do we
know what Bond Mow were discussing? Yeah, I remember, I
remember it. What was the suggestion of what he should
have done coming out of the eye doctor's appointment to
enjoy it and it's exquisite sensitivity. Enjoy the Armstrong You
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Getty One More Thing podcast? But he yet subscribed all
of them. Excellent tease going along. It's justin JP who writes. Yesterday,
Jack brought up that his kids' social views echo zone,
even though he rarely talked about the issues at home.
I've been listening for more than twenty years, and since
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I've had kids, I've used a variation of the joke
getting NPR line with my kids. When I turn on
politics in the car, I tell my kids, we're listening
this to this to punish you for your future sin.
But anyway, on a recent road trip, I had held
up the AGY podcast. My eleven and nine year old
yelled from the back, Dad, we're already good little Libertarians?
Can you please turn on a comedy podcast? And I
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laughed so hard I almost cracked. That's pretty funny. Nice
thanks JP. Also just another quick private note. Frequent correspondent
all around great dude Scott in Healsburg, Beautiful California, had
a terrible health scare and has been recovering in the
hospital but enjoying the Armstrong and Getty podcast and says
(15:20):
some very nice things. Scott get well soon did he
have the bird flu? He did not have the bird flu. Indeed,
you know, once in a while, I'm reminded that actual,
real people take this in and it makes their lives
somewhat happier. And as an enormous fan of other people
who do this, it means a lot. So thank you
(15:40):
for saying so, Bill Wrights. Guys, my wife and I
are currently into Lot, Vietnam on a three month visa.
I wonder how many of the people in the US
who think illegal immigration has justified would think that we
have the right now to overstay our visa here, or
if we did decide to ignore the laws of Vietnam,
how many do you think would find it race when
Vietnam either deported us or threw us in jail. If
(16:03):
I decided to test the Vietnamese immigration system, you can
blame it on the food. Everything is delicious. Not only
should you stay in Vietnam, you should send your kids
to the local school and they are required to have
that teacher who may not speak English. Figure out a
way to teach your kid in English, and then if
you get the bird flu or whatever illness, you should
go to the hospital and just show up and somebody
(16:26):
should speak your language and take care of you, and
the tab payers should pick up and dude, Bill way
to go with half measures, you weenie, commit some crimes
and then say to the Vietnamese authorities you can't kick
us out. How dare you kick us out? What do
you mean you're kicking us out? Why should people not
see that? I don't know. How are they living in
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such a foggy dream world that the utter clarity of
the situation isn't well utterly clear. I don't get it.
You people are nuts. Yeah. I could cram this in,
but take a lot of cos Oh, Hanson, you got
to grab the new trailer. TLC the Learning Channel their
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Alec Baldwin, his fake foreign wife and their nineteen children
is a TLC special and there's a trailer out, So
we'll have to check that out among the other things.
You stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. So here's the
story on China and their Ai thing of what it
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did to the stock market and another really interesting nugget
from the ABC Evening News, shares.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Of Nvidia, which makes the chips used to power artificial intelligence,
plunging nearly six hundred billion dollars triggered by the emergence
of a powerful and more efficient new Chinese AI chatbot
called deep Seek. Deep Seek the app number one in
both Apple and Google's app stores, built in China, allegedly
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at a fraction of the cost, using far less energy
than Western competitors like Open Ai, Google and Anthropic Opening
I CEO Sam Altman warned about the technology and the
wrong hands when we spoke in twenty twenty three, this.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
So in the wrong human hands, it could be a
very different device.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
We do worry a lot about authoritarian governments developing this. Yeah,
so Sam Altman back in the day, which was like
a year ago, because AI is also new, saying please
if some other country then US had it would be horrible.
And now China claims they might have the best, fastest,
certainly cheapest, and uses at least energy. That was announced yesterday,
which is why the stock market did what it's did
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in six hundred billion dollars two thirds of a trillion dollars,
biggest drop in stock market history. But they never adjust
for inflation. I hate when they do that. But it
is the most valuable company in the world that took
a giant hit.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
To me.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Maybe the most interesting part of the story, though, is
it's the number one app in the Apple App Store
in Google App Store already, even though it has the
same weaknesses re China spying on you as TikTok, every
bit the same, including it's in their agreement thing they
get to watch all your keystrokes when you download the
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app on your phone. But go ahead. It's it's open source,
which my tech advisors inform me makes it less insidious
because everybody can see precisely what's in the code.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
What I find really interesting about this is that stock
prices are now so completely divorced from earnings, and like
any solid valuation, that just a question of perception like
this can cause us a loss of six hundred billion
dollars in value. Right, So, like when Tesla was really
going up and down, when it would be briefly the
most valuable car company in the world, Like, what, how
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why is Tesla more valuable than GM and it doesn't
make any sense based on sentiment and excitement and hipness
or whatever. But so well, we'll have to see how
this shakes out. I've heard a couple of notes of
caution amidst the breathless reporting, including Dan Gallagher in the
Journal saying, uh, deep sink Deep Seek, won't sink us
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AI titans. The panic sell off is overblown. Well, Marc
Andreesen is kind of working with Trump. I listened to
a long podcast with him yesterday with Lex Friedman, super
smart tech guy. He's friends with Trump and Peter Teel
and that whole crowd and everything like that. He called
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it yesterday the Spotnik moment, the AI spotnik moment, going
back to the fifties when we all the United States
to obb this was long before we were born, but
woke up to find out the Soviet Union had, you know,
set a satellite into space. They were ahead of us.
We didn't know they were ahead of us with space. Well,
the new space is AI. And is this a Sputnik
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moment where we realized China is ahead of us? And
Trump said it's a wake up call, it's a good thing,
and that it's a wake up call and will now
be laser focused on realizing, you know, we need to
be at our best to compete, which is an interesting
way to look at it. Oh yeah, I think that's
a great message to take from it. I think, you know,
some of the very early hype is just it's it's
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you know, it's the age of hyperbole. Honestly, we'll have
to see. It'll all play out and we'll all find
out together. But as Gallagher writes, the selloff seems excessive.
Much remains unknown about deep Seek's claims, including what sort
of chips the company had access to despite the effect
of sanctions. Several chip analysts on Monday disputed the notion
the deep Seek built something on par with events US
based AI systems at such a low cost. Quote. Deep
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Seek did not build open AI for five million dollars,
wrote Stacey Raskin of Bernstein. The Deep Seek moment is
driving investors to shoot first and ask questions later, wrote
another dude. A third dude wrote, while deep Seek's achievements
could be groundbreaking, we questioned the notion that its feats
were done without the use of advanced GPUs to fine
tune it. So we'll have to see. It's interesting though,
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if you don't know the particulars. China's claiming they built
this for five and a half million dollars, and for
us it would be more like one hundred and fifty
to two hundred and fifty million. Remember last week when
Trump promised it half a trillion dollars for AI stuff.
China's claiming they built this thing for five and a
half million dollars with regular chips, not the super fancy
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chips that we thought we had the market cornered on
and the big advantage there. So if China is being honest,
it would be a spot make moment. And I don't
know how long it'll take to figure that out. Yeah,
we'll see. It's the technical term. Is it cost five
point six million dollars to train it? I can train
a dog with a bag of treats and a little
patient space. And one of Elon's things early on was
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as soon as this becomes a competition between companies, well
that ship has sailed between Microsoft, Google, Apple, Open Ai,
everybody else, and then a competition between countries, then all
the guardrails will drop down and nobody will be concerned
about any of the dangers of AI, it'll just be
a race to be first in and well that's where
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we're gonna be. It's one of the things that's so
freaking scary about AIE. One interesting thing I heard yesterday
in the podcast with Mark Andriesen, and man, he's an
interesting guy if you're interested, if you're interested in AI
at all, he said, it's not. First of all, they
don't know. They still haven't figured out that whole hallucinations
thing yet, where I just make stuff up. Nobody knows
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why it does it, how to stop it, or if
it can be stopped. And if it can't be stopped,
it definitely takes some of the fun out of AI.
It makes it. It makes it less to take over
the world y If they can't figure out how to
stop this hallucination problem where it just makes up crap.
That's so mystifying to those of us who really don't
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know much about how these things work. Anyway, seems to
be they could do that seems to be mystifying to
the programmers also. And the other thing he said, they're
not sure if AI is going to reach the limit
of things. For instance, he used the example of medicine philosophy,
other things that rather than be able to invent new
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things that will be amazing beyond a human capacity, maybe
it's just gonna soak up, once it's soaked up all
the information there is about philosophy. He used the example,
is it gonna come up with something new and like
coalesce all the information that's existed, or is it just
gonna say, give me some more, or I just have
what you have. I have everything that exists, which you
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also have if you want it, and I don't know
where to go from here? Is AI just going to
say that once it soaks up all the information and
unless you feed it more, it can't go any further.
That's it. I guess that's an open question among the
AI crowd. Fascinating. Yeah, I wish I had any insight
whatsoever on the question. Well you don't, but neither do they.
Nobody does, right, Yeah, yeah, interesting. I am more optimistic
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about like gene therapy for cancer that I am new philosophies,
but who knows. The Other thing that I heard very
that I thought was really interesting about the big A
Deep Seek story. And this is not being a contrary,
and this is just I thought it was a good point.
Was They said, it takes a tremendous amount of time, energy,
and money to be the constantly breaking ground people, and
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first in could be enormously important depending on how the
technology goes. I get that completely, But they said, it's
it's much much easier to look what everybody, look at
what everybody else did at enormous time and expense, and
catch up to them very quickly and appear to be
just a little bit behind them and a very promising
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up and comer. But honestly, all you've done is really
ride the coattails, like you remember when? When was it?
It was like fifteen years ago that all of a sudden,
like bargain car brands, styling looked just like luxury car
brands and you would have to look at a Hyundai
twice to figure out whether it was a Mercedes Benz
or not. Yep, that's still the case. I look at
cars all the time and think, wow, what is that?
(25:55):
It's like Kia? Okay, right, well enough, technology, I say,
is it exhausts me? Unless you had more on this topic,
I had one more thing I wanted to say about it,
and what was this? Oh so, back before we decided
China was evil, when Tom Friedman of the New York
Times was going on Charlie Rose once a week, and
I would watch him and he'd talk about how much
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better China's system was, in glowing terms, for instance, how
they could and this was true, if they decided they
wanted to put a bridge in this city, they could
have it by like next weekend, because one guy could
say do it, and nobody could stop him. No environmentalists, no, no, nobody.
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I mean there could be There're no committees, there was nothing.
Just build it. What's it cost, doesn't matter. Just build
a freak that there's a possibility that that's what's going
on with a AI. That is an advantage over the
way we do things. They don't have to turn a
profit because the government cares. Uh, there is no if
they decide, you know, no red tape, and we're not
worried about the delta smelt being bothered or much energy
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it takes or anything like that. Just do it. That
isn't advantage authoritarian countries have. It Ultimately isn't better obviously,
as we all know. But maybe on one specific project
might be all right. Again, I say, enough technology, it's exhausting.
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beautiful songcraft of one Mollygaller, Ladies and gentlemen. It's roaring
its way up the charts. Are there even charts these days?
I don't, I don't know, I don't. Nobody cares Molligaller
and her hit bipock.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Blackin Indigenous people love color. Black, Indigenous people love color.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Lesbian Day by Transgender on Clear, Lesbian Gay by Transcendent Clear,
Asian American Pacific Islander, Asian American Pacific Islander, Latino, Hispanic,
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Romani and Creol Latinospanic.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
She didn't say Latin and Creol.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
We all have the place in this world.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, everybody, have a play. You can say it again
if you want. But nobody who's to denying that? So
barely that beat thing is she's beaten her chest with
her hand because it's a tough popular thing at like
slam poetry. Things you do that. I think she should
continue with short people, and you got kind of a
big nose, and you walk funny, and your voice is annoying.
(29:52):
We're all people of the world. Beaonderful Katie looks like
she's deep in despair. Katie, what should we know about
this hot young artist.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Well, first of all, I'm disappointed in you for dancing
while we were listening to that audio that that's my first.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Worm.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
All right, Yes, this is Molly Gahler.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
She is the fiddler and singer of the Gawler Family Band.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
There's like seven of them.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
They're reproduced, they're from they're from Maine, and this is
her new gig after being a former parkour teacher.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Wow, I didn't know that was the thing.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Uh, that's pretty much it. They're not very well known,
they don't have very many followers.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Parkour teacher, I teach how to run up to a
park bench and jump off and jump off the wall.
That's what I do.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
And in my downtime I write bipop songs for the interwebs.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
The we need to get into this in a little bit.
The how do I put this in a way that's
not insulting, the I'm not sure it's possible. The socio
political tendencies of young women in the modern world, and
how odd they seem to so many of us. Stay
(31:24):
with us again, I think they need to include more people.
You drive in the left lane too slow, you wear
too much cologne. We're all part of this world. We
got Katie's headlines on the way stay here. So Selena
Gomez is getting a lot of attention. And if you're
a fan of Only Murders in the Building, which is
a fabulous show, you like her. How do you not
(31:46):
like her? But she put out a video yesterday about
the border and cried and one of those crying women
TikTok sort of videos, and it's getting a lot of attention.
We'll get into that an hour two. In the pushback
specifically to Selena Gomez by the order Guy Homan actually
referring to her, So, oh my, didn't see that one
on one bout coming right, Selena go. I wonder if
(32:09):
Selena Gomez will get into something with Tom Holman. I
was saying last week, No, I wasn't all right so
much more on that in the psycho social behavior of
young women in politics these days. Interesting insights. Anyway, Let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green. Katie starting with the NBC.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Public schools are trying to prodect undocumented students from Trump
immigration raids.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Right, nobody's grabbing students out of classrooms. Shut up. Did
you see the picture of the home depot somewhere floating
around yesterday? An empty home depot? About how none of
the employees showed up because they're worried about Trump's raids?
All right, Well, you're either you're either a criminal who's
here illegally and you should be concerned, or you're not.
(32:53):
And if you are concerned, you need to read better
newspapers or something. I don't know what to say about
that New York Times.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
White House orders, federal grants, pause as firings, reshape the
Justice Department.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Interesting. Yeah, there are all sorts of different policy changes
going on in that world. We don't really have time
to discuss. But man, he is shaking it up.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Speaking of shaking it up, USA, today Trump order recognizes
only two sexes.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Advocates call it cruel and lawless. Yeah, the State Department
under Rubio announced the other day passports no longer can
have an X. You can't opt out of male female.
You gotta choose one. That's your only choice going forward
for a US passport. Now, going back to the Home
Depot headline there in the pictures, it's another great example
(33:43):
of what we were talking about yesterday, which is if
you create a mess and then yell and cry that
those of us cleaning the mess up have created a
little dust in the air. No, no, if those are
the eggs that must be cracked, he says, mixing the
metaphors to make the omelet of reforming immigration in this country,
(34:05):
then we're gonna crack them. You had your chance, you
screwed everything up. And also, if you don't like the
immigration law, then make it your goal to elect House
members and senators who will change immigration law. But otherwise
we should follow the current law. Yeah, this whole No,
we should ignore the current laws, and anybody who suggests
enforcing them as a meanie and not a Christian. According
(34:29):
to that one Episcopal lady who was lecturing Trump the
other day, No, either change the law or you enforce it.
Those are your choices virtue signaling Weenie's from.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
ABC News Israel says eight of the thirty three hostages
being released are dead.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Wow, Now they're trying to negotiate with monsters. From the
New York.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Post, Trump suggests Microsoft is and talks to by TikTok
and hopes for a bidding.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
War Microsoft to buy TikTok Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
From CNN Suicidal Tendencies and.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Eighties Battlefield Tactics.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
How North Korean soldiers are operating in Russia's war on Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Wow, that is an underreported story and super interesting. Those
poor North Koreans trying to earn a little money for
their family back home, being fed into machine gun fire
by the evil Putin and a lot of them so
thoroughly indoctrinated. They're just trying to gain the approval of
their great godlike leader by dying Boof.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
And finally from the Babylon B. Thanks to Trump ending Dei,
the Babylon B is finally able to fire.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Its only female writer. Wow. That's sad. I didn't enjoy
that joke at all. That it's funny. Okay, Hope Martin
Short doesn't get into a beef of Pete Hegzath next week,
but right now, it's Selena Gomez against uh, poor Tom
Holman who's trying to, you know, get the illegals out
(36:10):
of the country. And if you haven't heard that, we'll
get into it in an hour or two. If you
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Speaker 2 (00:57):
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By god, Seriously, I was watching MSNBC and you it's
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hellscape of racism and greed is what we're living under.
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Is that what they think their viewers want? I don't know.
We'll see if it works for them. That's something though.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
They're eleven viewers, I don't know. They ought to just
ask them one by one what they want.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
That's an excellent point. They can call all their viewers
in the morning, say what would you like today? What
do you what are you in the mood for and
then just crack the shore on it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
To me, increasingly, the cable news especially, but even your
your network news is are merely objects of amusement there, uh,
you know, the relics of days gone by. They're they're flailing,
They're full of crap, and I just I don't I
don't think they need to be paid much.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Heed, Honestly, I would agree with you. So what is it?
Just so? Is information just so dispersed now that there's
no go to what's the mainstream media talking about today?
Does that just not exist anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, they're a handful, I think, and cable news is
still fun to to be rate and make fun of.
You know, I think your New York Times, your WA
Poe have a fair amount of poll and significance, but
the list is very short these days.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, I would agree there's no need to comment on
things that are irrelevant. But what is relevant?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I mean? Actually, I was slipping channels last night and
there was the read out with Joy read and I thought,
why not let's dive in, let's catch a little of
it live. But she was just sitting there looking mildly
attentive while some guest of hers was ranting on about
roughly what you just said, and I thought, now, I'm
not here for that guy. I want to hear joy
(03:10):
read special brand of unhinged, you know, moronitudes, and I
wasn't getting it.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So I kept flipping right, and I realized, if you're
under forty five, probably you don't even know what these
channels are or who these people are. And good for you.
That's just the way things change. What was the general
manager again?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And why?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It was a rambling description of Trump's a strong executive,
a seizing of executive power. All right, it's quite remarkable
and a lot of you folks, depending on how deeply
you dig into the news, I've heard some of the
headline stuff, but I mean he is like completely restructured
Foreign Aid and the Justice Department and the State Department,
(03:52):
and I would suggest you're going to see some serious
changes in the way Black History Month is presented by
the government. He's making change, which is left right and center.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, no doubt about that, for better or worse on
all these different categories. And lots of illegals rounded up yesterday,
including in San Francisco and Los Angeles, which we'll get
into more. But that continues to be a hot story
and long overdue and much appreciated by most of America,
which again the mainstream media doesn't seem to grasp. My
(04:24):
favorite story going on is certainly this whole AI China thing.
Holy crap, Nvidia lost two thirds of a trillion dollars
of their stock price yesterday, which is really something. If
it turns out to be true that you can do
a whole eight AI thing with regular.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Chips, at least China did so. I don't know, I
don't know how that's going well, jack I Joe Geddy
often referred to as the great Contrarian. At least I'd
like to get that going. This is a huge, hugely
overrated thing. You can see bounce back it is. It's overblown.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, and why do you think that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm no drama? Remember no drama Obama. He was a
freaking Shakespeare festival next to me. Okay, I am no drama, Joe.
I will I will explain going forward. But the long
and short some of the claims are unproven. Also, it's
much easier to follow the leaders and say, hey, I've
(05:31):
almost caught up to you, and I spent less money.
But that's you know what not being a leader is.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, I hope you're right. It'd be somewhat troubling if
for whatever reason, China can come up with a better
social media algorithm than anything we've been able to come
up with, and they can come up with faster, better
AI than us, that would be not be a good sign.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The social media algorithm thing is indisputable. TikTok is an
evil miracle.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, I guess that's why I think it's definitely possible
on the AI thing. I mean, we got a lot
of money being spent on trying to come up with
a TikTok like AI, and we haven't come up with
anything as good as what they got. I don't know
why it wouldn't be true for you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I also, but of course you're not the great contrarian?
Are you? The great go alonger? Guys?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They call it like everybody calls you. Let's start to
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It is Tuesday, January twenty eighth, year twenty twenty five.
Where I'm strong in getting an approve of this program.
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Well the place sing sing along if you know the words?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Okay, that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Is you know, Jack, I'm so sorry you're stuck in
tragic traffic because Katie's horror. She reeled from that, just
as if she a blow was struck. Well, because I
saw that video.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
And instantly missed who I was before I saw it,
that f and psycho.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Anyway, everybody found down. Everybody keep going, well, okay, Jack,
So what was that? Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
So the worst person on the planet is here?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That was That's a singer by the name of Molly
Gawler who's released a new woke anthem Jack entitled bypok Okay.
Is this an actual, like known singer or is this
I mean, because everybody's a singer, Michael sings something right now,
See he's a singer. Yeah, I'm not a singer at all.
(07:59):
I know she a singer singer or I don't actually know.
I just thought it was so damn funny it is.
We're gonna hear the whole thing later. I'm sure. Oh,
there's a fair amount to it. Yes, yes, it ull
doesn't get any better. Oh that's fan See that's what
we need mirth. Well, yes, clearly. I don't know if
(08:22):
that fits in with the GC's uh you know, and
I will I will not be contrary against that point. Yeah,
I agree completely. Yeah, Katie C. If you can figure
out who this babe is, oh great, I just don't
don't dos her and rule her life. She's an idiot.
An idiot is not a capital offense. Well, she's a cultist.
Oh my gosh, being an idiot is not a capital offense.
(08:45):
Did you speak of bipop Did you see some of
the stuff that leaked out. We'll have to get to
that today. From a number of different parts of the
government now that they're rooting out the d DEI where
oh where they were emphasize that we need an BIPOC
person for this slot and a BIPOC person for that slot.
(09:06):
Where the emphasis was on racial preferences. Yeah, there was
a big piece where did I see that? A lot
of folks are talking about it at Colorado State University,
A lot of colleges and universities are utterly defiant in
well defying federal law. They are doing quotas, they are
(09:27):
doing affirmative action, race based hiring, just completely. They believe
their university campuses are little fiefdoms. They're like Indian reservations
that are not subject to the laws of the United
States of America. I suggest the United States of America
does something about it. Yeah, that's really interesting. As following
the argument on about this the other day, after Trump
(09:49):
released his Dei rules last week and when the Supreme
Court decided to do away with the sort of vermittive
action thing that have been going on in colleges forever,
John Roberts now famously said, and it probably going to
become more famous over time, the best way to end
racism is to end racism, right. I mean, it's just
(10:14):
so simply true. And the fact that we had it
going on at so many different levels in universities and
the government and the industries and that sort of thing.
I know how we'll fix racism with more racism. Lots
and lots of racism. Yeah, they're still teaching it to
your children today at school. Yeah, really interesting. So I'll
talk more about that later. Cool. How does mailbag look
coming along? It's it's coming together, it's coming along, and
(10:37):
it's out in the same state as that Gal's song.
It's early versions. When you say it's coming on that
because you have people behind the scenes that are working
on it, may they hand you the finished copy? Is
that the way it works? Yeah? Yeah, there's a committee
team of they report to a different committee. Finally it
gets to me and then I give the royal ya
(10:57):
orne right thumbs up, like these are the Great Caesar fantastic.
So that's not to be confused with the great What
was that contrarian? You're the great? Right? If you're going
to be that, you're gonna have to remember it. Uh
Text line four one five two nine five kftcre from
tomorrow the long awaited RFK Junior hearing. The editorial board
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of The New York Post out with a piece today
and they're a pretty trumpy outfit. Vote Republican Senators vote
no on RFK Junior. And here's why. Those of you
who are not alone no, those of you who are
RFK Junior fans, I assume you're thinking about, uh, well,
you're not thinking about some of the issues that you
(11:43):
agree with wholeheartedly that he does not, and you just
haven't heard it yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, more on
that to come. Why don't we go ahead and get
into our freedom loving court of the day continued is
our series unchanged? George Bernard Shaw. Progress is impossible without change,
(12:04):
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Of course, the flip of that is what you're always saying.
All change is not progress, and there is a certain
crowd that believes any change is progress. Yes, I've actually
heard various lovely poet type people say change is what
(12:27):
I believe in. And for whatever reason, when you're young,
because I remember being young it was a long time ago,
you're built to want to change things even when your
life's perfectly fine, it's weird. I think about the rebellious
years when everything was fine. I lived in a fine
place and everything was fine. Why did I want everything
to be torn down? I have no idea, right, And
(12:48):
I think that's natural though. It's the way we're made.
It's part of God's plan, or Nature's or somebody or
others maybe RFK juniors, And that's fine. But it is
also perfectly fine. Speaking of things, that are fine for
those of the rest of us to say, noe, what
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pipe down perfectly play some sort of weird frisbee game
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I've been listening for more than twenty years, and since
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I've had kids, I've used a variation of the joke
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I wonder how many of the people in the US
who think illegal immigration has justified would think that we
have the right now to overstay our visa here, or
if we did decide to ignore the laws of Vietnam,
how many do you think would find it race when
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You people are nuts. Yeah. I could cram this in,
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You stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. So here's the
story on China and their Ai thing of what it
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did to the stock market and another really interesting nugget
from the ABC Evening News, shares.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Of Nvidia, which makes the chips used to power artificial intelligence,
plunging nearly six hundred billion dollars triggered by the emergence
of a powerful and more efficient new Chinese AI chatbot
called deep Seek. Deep Seek the app number one in
both Apple and Google's app stores, built in China, allegedly
(17:54):
at a fraction of the cost, using far less energy
than Western competitors like Open Ai, Google and Anthropic Opening
I CEO Sam Altman warned about the technology and the
wrong hands when we spoke in twenty twenty three, this.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
So in the wrong human hands, it could be a
very different device.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
We do worry a lot about authoritarian governments developing this. Yeah,
so Sam Altman back in the day, which was like
a year ago, because AI is also new, saying please
if some other country then US had it would be horrible.
And now China claims they might have the best, fastest,
certainly cheapest, and uses at least energy. That was announced yesterday,
which is why the stock market did what it's did
(18:36):
in six hundred billion dollars two thirds of a trillion dollars,
biggest drop in stock market history. But they never adjust
for inflation. I hate when they do that. But it
is the most valuable company in the world that took
a giant hit.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
To me.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Maybe the most interesting part of the story, though, is
it's the number one app in the Apple App Store
in Google App Store already, even though it has the
same weaknesses re China spying on you as TikTok, every
bit the same, including it's in their agreement thing they
get to watch all your keystrokes when you download the
(19:10):
app on your phone. But go ahead. It's it's open source,
which my tech advisors inform me makes it less insidious
because everybody can see precisely what's in the code.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
What I find really interesting about this is that stock
prices are now so completely divorced from earnings, and like
any solid valuation, that just a question of perception like
this can cause us a loss of six hundred billion
dollars in value. Right, So, like when Tesla was really
going up and down, when it would be briefly the
most valuable car company in the world, Like, what, how
(19:44):
why is Tesla more valuable than GM and it doesn't
make any sense based on sentiment and excitement and hipness
or whatever. But so well, we'll have to see how
this shakes out. I've heard a couple of notes of
caution amidst the breathless reporting, including Dan Gallagher in the
Journal saying, uh, deep sink Deep Seek, won't sink us
(20:08):
AI titans. The panic sell off is overblown. Well, Marc
Andreesen is kind of working with Trump. I listened to
a long podcast with him yesterday with Lex Friedman, super
smart tech guy. He's friends with Trump and Peter Teel
and that whole crowd and everything like that. He called
(20:28):
it yesterday the Spotnik moment, the AI spotnik moment, going
back to the fifties when we all the United States
to obb this was long before we were born, but
woke up to find out the Soviet Union had, you know,
set a satellite into space. They were ahead of us.
We didn't know they were ahead of us with space. Well,
the new space is AI. And is this a Sputnik
(20:48):
moment where we realized China is ahead of us? And
Trump said it's a wake up call, it's a good thing,
and that it's a wake up call and will now
be laser focused on realizing, you know, we need to
be at our best to compete, which is an interesting
way to look at it. Oh yeah, I think that's
a great message to take from it. I think, you know,
some of the very early hype is just it's it's
(21:09):
you know, it's the age of hyperbole. Honestly, we'll have
to see. It'll all play out and we'll all find
out together. But as Gallagher writes, the selloff seems excessive.
Much remains unknown about deep Seek's claims, including what sort
of chips the company had access to despite the effect
of sanctions. Several chip analysts on Monday disputed the notion
the deep Seek built something on par with events US
based AI systems at such a low cost. Quote. Deep
(21:32):
Seek did not build open AI for five million dollars,
wrote Stacey Raskin of Bernstein. The Deep Seek moment is
driving investors to shoot first and ask questions later, wrote
another dude. A third dude wrote, while deep Seek's achievements
could be groundbreaking, we questioned the notion that its feats
were done without the use of advanced GPUs to fine
tune it. So we'll have to see. It's interesting though,
(21:53):
if you don't know the particulars. China's claiming they built
this for five and a half million dollars, and for
us it would be more like one hundred and fifty
to two hundred and fifty million. Remember last week when
Trump promised it half a trillion dollars for AI stuff.
China's claiming they built this thing for five and a
half million dollars with regular chips, not the super fancy
(22:16):
chips that we thought we had the market cornered on
and the big advantage there. So if China is being honest,
it would be a spot make moment. And I don't
know how long it'll take to figure that out. Yeah,
we'll see. It's the technical term. Is it cost five
point six million dollars to train it? I can train
a dog with a bag of treats and a little
patient space. And one of Elon's things early on was
(22:40):
as soon as this becomes a competition between companies, well
that ship has sailed between Microsoft, Google, Apple, Open Ai,
everybody else, and then a competition between countries, then all
the guardrails will drop down and nobody will be concerned
about any of the dangers of AI, it'll just be
a race to be first in and well that's where
(23:02):
we're gonna be. It's one of the things that's so
freaking scary about AIE. One interesting thing I heard yesterday
in the podcast with Mark Andriesen, and man, he's an
interesting guy if you're interested, if you're interested in AI
at all, he said, it's not. First of all, they
don't know. They still haven't figured out that whole hallucinations
thing yet, where I just make stuff up. Nobody knows
(23:23):
why it does it, how to stop it, or if
it can be stopped. And if it can't be stopped,
it definitely takes some of the fun out of AI.
It makes it. It makes it less to take over
the world y If they can't figure out how to
stop this hallucination problem where it just makes up crap.
That's so mystifying to those of us who really don't
(23:43):
know much about how these things work. Anyway, seems to
be they could do that seems to be mystifying to
the programmers also. And the other thing he said, they're
not sure if AI is going to reach the limit
of things. For instance, he used the example of medicine philosophy,
other things that rather than be able to invent new
(24:07):
things that will be amazing beyond a human capacity, maybe
it's just gonna soak up, once it's soaked up all
the information there is about philosophy. He used the example,
is it gonna come up with something new and like
coalesce all the information that's existed, or is it just
gonna say, give me some more, or I just have
what you have. I have everything that exists, which you
(24:30):
also have if you want it, and I don't know
where to go from here? Is AI just going to
say that once it soaks up all the information and
unless you feed it more, it can't go any further.
That's it. I guess that's an open question among the
AI crowd. Fascinating. Yeah, I wish I had any insight
whatsoever on the question. Well you don't, but neither do they.
Nobody does, right, Yeah, yeah, interesting. I am more optimistic
(24:52):
about like gene therapy for cancer that I am new philosophies,
but who knows. The Other thing that I heard very
that I thought was really interesting about the big A
Deep Seek story. And this is not being a contrary,
and this is just I thought it was a good point.
Was They said, it takes a tremendous amount of time, energy,
and money to be the constantly breaking ground people, and
(25:13):
first in could be enormously important depending on how the
technology goes. I get that completely, But they said, it's
it's much much easier to look what everybody, look at
what everybody else did at enormous time and expense, and
catch up to them very quickly and appear to be
just a little bit behind them and a very promising
(25:34):
up and comer. But honestly, all you've done is really
ride the coattails, like you remember when? When was it?
It was like fifteen years ago that all of a sudden,
like bargain car brands, styling looked just like luxury car
brands and you would have to look at a Hyundai
twice to figure out whether it was a Mercedes Benz
or not. Yep, that's still the case. I look at
cars all the time and think, wow, what is that?
(25:55):
It's like Kia? Okay, right, well enough, technology, I say,
is it exhausts me? Unless you had more on this topic,
I had one more thing I wanted to say about it,
and what was this? Oh so, back before we decided
China was evil, when Tom Friedman of the New York
Times was going on Charlie Rose once a week, and
I would watch him and he'd talk about how much
(26:17):
better China's system was, in glowing terms, for instance, how
they could and this was true, if they decided they
wanted to put a bridge in this city, they could
have it by like next weekend, because one guy could
say do it, and nobody could stop him. No environmentalists, no, no, nobody.
(26:39):
I mean there could be There're no committees, there was nothing.
Just build it. What's it cost, doesn't matter. Just build
a freak that there's a possibility that that's what's going
on with a AI. That is an advantage over the
way we do things. They don't have to turn a
profit because the government cares. Uh, there is no if
they decide, you know, no red tape, and we're not
worried about the delta smelt being bothered or much energy
(27:00):
it takes or anything like that. Just do it. That
isn't advantage authoritarian countries have. It Ultimately isn't better obviously,
as we all know. But maybe on one specific project
might be all right. Again, I say, enough technology, it's exhausting.
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Speaker 2 (30:58):
The we need to get into this in a little bit.
The how do I put this in a way that's
not insulting, the I'm not sure it's possible. The socio
political tendencies of young women in the modern world, and
how odd they seem to so many of us. Stay
(31:24):
with us again, I think they need to include more people.
You drive in the left lane too slow, you wear
too much cologne. We're all part of this world. We
got Katie's headlines on the way stay here. So Selena
Gomez is getting a lot of attention. And if you're
a fan of Only Murders in the Building, which is
a fabulous show, you like her. How do you not
(31:46):
like her? But she put out a video yesterday about
the border and cried and one of those crying women
TikTok sort of videos, and it's getting a lot of attention.
We'll get into that an hour two. In the pushback
specifically to Selena Gomez by the order Guy Homan actually
referring to her, So, oh my, didn't see that one
on one bout coming right, Selena go. I wonder if
(32:09):
Selena Gomez will get into something with Tom Holman. I
was saying last week, No, I wasn't all right so
much more on that in the psycho social behavior of
young women in politics these days. Interesting insights. Anyway, Let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green. Katie starting with the NBC.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Public schools are trying to prodect undocumented students from Trump
immigration raids.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Right, nobody's grabbing students out of classrooms. Shut up. Did
you see the picture of the home depot somewhere floating
around yesterday? An empty home depot? About how none of
the employees showed up because they're worried about Trump's raids?
All right, Well, you're either you're either a criminal who's
here illegally and you should be concerned, or you're not.
(32:53):
And if you are concerned, you need to read better
newspapers or something. I don't know what to say about
that New York Times.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
White House orders, federal grants, pause as firings, reshape the
Justice Department.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Interesting. Yeah, there are all sorts of different policy changes
going on in that world. We don't really have time
to discuss. But man, he is shaking it up.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Speaking of shaking it up, USA, today Trump order recognizes
only two sexes.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Advocates call it cruel and lawless. Yeah, the State Department
under Rubio announced the other day passports no longer can
have an X. You can't opt out of male female.
You gotta choose one. That's your only choice going forward
for a US passport. Now, going back to the Home
Depot headline there in the pictures, it's another great example
(33:43):
of what we were talking about yesterday, which is if
you create a mess and then yell and cry that
those of us cleaning the mess up have created a
little dust in the air. No, no, if those are
the eggs that must be cracked, he says, mixing the
metaphors to make the omelet of reforming immigration in this country,
(34:05):
then we're gonna crack them. You had your chance, you
screwed everything up. And also, if you don't like the
immigration law, then make it your goal to elect House
members and senators who will change immigration law. But otherwise
we should follow the current law. Yeah, this whole No,
we should ignore the current laws, and anybody who suggests
enforcing them as a meanie and not a Christian. According
(34:29):
to that one Episcopal lady who was lecturing Trump the
other day, No, either change the law or you enforce it.
Those are your choices virtue signaling Weenie's from.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
ABC News Israel says eight of the thirty three hostages
being released are dead.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Wow, Now they're trying to negotiate with monsters. From the
New York.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Post, Trump suggests Microsoft is and talks to by TikTok
and hopes for a bidding.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
War Microsoft to buy TikTok Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
From CNN Suicidal Tendencies and.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Eighties Battlefield Tactics.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
How North Korean soldiers are operating in Russia's war on Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Wow, that is an underreported story and super interesting. Those
poor North Koreans trying to earn a little money for
their family back home, being fed into machine gun fire
by the evil Putin and a lot of them so
thoroughly indoctrinated. They're just trying to gain the approval of
their great godlike leader by dying Boof.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
And finally from the Babylon B. Thanks to Trump ending Dei,
the Babylon B is finally able to fire.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Its only female writer. Wow. That's sad. I didn't enjoy
that joke at all. That it's funny. Okay, Hope Martin
Short doesn't get into a beef of Pete Hegzath next week,
but right now, it's Selena Gomez against uh, poor Tom
Holman who's trying to, you know, get the illegals out
(36:10):
of the country. And if you haven't heard that, we'll
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