May 24, 2024 • 36 mins
- Meeting a man in the woods vs a bear in the woods
- Taylor Swift is a shrewd businesswoman
- AI and the workforce
- Cheeseball man
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm strong and Getty and no Armstrong and Jetty wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So, Katie, have you or any of your female friends
been engaging in this man or bar meme that were
like a month behind on?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay? Guye roll huge eye roll. Okay, I'll set it
up here and then you can you can get into it.
The eye roll followed by the headshake of.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Disgust because this is the dumbest thing that's hit the
Internet in a while.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But go ahead, jam, Well, we're wait behind, and I
apologize if you're like, that's that, that's so yesterday's news,
because from what I understand, this has been the hot
topic for quite a few weeks. But we're old and slow.
So it's a very simple question. If you're a woman
hiking alone in the woods, would you rather encounter an
unknown man or unknown bear? Would you rather encounter a
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strange a dude you don't know, or a bear? And
depending on which social media venue you're on, But it
ranges from well over majority on all of them, two
thirds to eighty five percent of the women say absolutely bear,
Absolutely bear, I'd rather run into a bear than a
dude out in the woods alone. First of all, what
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if you of your friends thought? And then I'll get
into some of the higher level sociology commentary around it.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I have not brought this up to my circle of
friends because the ones that would know about it are
going to be the ones that would say bear. This
is the dumbest thing on the planet. I don't know
why you would want to encounter a bear. I don't
have you not heard of male toxicity?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh kid, do you know a break?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You would rather encounter a wild bear while you're out
on a hike than passing some dude you don't know?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's where we are. That is where we are, and
I think we actually are there. Obviously there would be
a certain amount of jerkin with people or polsters. It's
not really a pole, just a question posted on TikTok
or whatever. But people kind of get a kick out
of saying bear. But the fact that people get a
kick out of saying bear, I find troubling that you
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just you like this idea that men are so awful
and dangerous that I'd.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Rather be eaten by a bear.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Like a lot of the most common sort of comment
is if a bear eats me, at least it's going
to be quick and easy a man. All the horrible
things a man might do to me, oh, be much
worse than being eaten by a bear. Is kind of
the common theme among the eighty percent of women who
feel that way.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
My concern is that this might erode bear awareness, but
that's just me.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Just let all of the women who said bear encounter
a bear.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It'll be great rate.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I have had a couple reactions in the last few years, though,
where women in recoiled in horror from the most casual
like approach your conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That didn't used to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I feel like, I don't I don't know what's being
taught to young women about how afraid you should be
of men in public or what.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But you look like a serial killer. That's most of them.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But I've always looked like a serial killer, and they
didn't always get this reaction.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, Joe stole part one of my answer. Part two
is this is the Internet. The Internet is doing this.
The TikTok algorithms, the Instagram algorithms.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Anytime you go on.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
This bear man thing has been all over the place,
and it is it's the this is the dumbest comparison.
I'm my blood pressure is going up if you can't
tell the fact that this is like the main It
was trending on every social media outlet you can imagine,
and the top videos that you clicked on were all
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women talking about how they would much rather encounter a
bear and then firing off all the lists of reasons
why they wouldn't want to encounter a man, which is stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And then you get all the kids that echo that.
I think, yeah, h.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Just the whole framework where you're you're answering one question
with an answer that's meant to express who you are
and what you're concerned about and how you believe in
toxic masculinity and all. I just if you want to
say something, say something, Yeah, I don't know, I just
this annoys me. It's it's another example of if you're
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going to be accepted as an as a progressive, you've
got to hate the United States. You've got to be
self hating, especially if you're white people. That's like your uh,
that's your bona fide. Can you use that in singular.
I don't know that's how you prove that you're worthy
of respect, self hatred and look, I get it as
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the father of a couple of daughters that you know
there's there's some risk and encountering a man in the wild,
But it's just a sillier question. A bear is a
freaking wild piece.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What would you put.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
This seems like a good opportunity for me to express
my disapproval of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's all this is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Of course, you got to flip it around for men hiking.
Do you want to encounter a cougar or a cougar? Okay,
your choice of a cougar or cougar, I'll not I'd
go with the cougar over the cougar any day. I'll
tell you that as dumb as as as this texture.
I've literally been chased and nearly attacked by a man
in the woods. They later caught him and arrested him.
But it's still rather run into a man than a bear.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yes, your experienced hiker.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I used to hike every single day and I have
passed hundreds, if not thousands, of random men in the woods,
and I can tell you if that number had been
hundreds of thousands of bears. I probably wouldn't been. You're
talking to you right now.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, got a lot of texts on this for decades,
and leftist feminized men that strong men are toxic, et cetera,
et cetera. Now women complain there are no strong men
available to hook up with. We've got a lot of
that theme. Hey, there's no wonder nobody's having kids. I
was thinking about somebody we used to work with around here,
talking about why he was still single and didn't date much.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Just the whole.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Women he encountered look at men like they're all rapists.
Like that, that's your starting point, and you have to
convince otherwise.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Another aspect of this that bothers me is that whether
you're a parent, or a teacher or even a cop,
in some situations, people tend to they react to the
they live up to your expectations of them. And if
we are constantly giving the message, sending the message to
young men that men are dangerous, violent, and misogynist beasts,
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then the young man has the option of either a
being that or b being some sort of weird reaction
to that extra effeminate passive, you know, making sure they're.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You know, I just it's unhealthy. Me go ahead.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh, I'm just thinking from a woman's standpoint too. It
also says something about our growing women's security because I'm
secure enough in myself, like if I'm out, I'm situationally
aware and all of those things. So I think that
if I were to encounter the bad man on the trail,
I would be able to know at least how to
start to protect myself and handle it. We just have
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a bunch of really weak, scared women right now, too.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
We it's the same thing that has been going on
for decades now around child abduction. We've got to quit
acting like every child gets abducted, every woman gets raped.
These are extraordinary instances. That's why they make the news
the way they do.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
They're not common, right, what's the exceptionality bias or rarity bias?
The point is, uh, And you're probably familiar with this,
but it's worth keeping in mind that things make the
news because they're rare, and then everybody sees them and
becomes convinced they're common. Yeah, it's the very rarest of
things that you hear about the most. Because man goes
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to work without incident Hug's wife, who he loves afterward,
is not gonna make the news. Yeah, and that happens
millions and millions of times every single day.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
If you're lost in the woods and you encountered a man,
ninety nine percent of the time, maybe more, the guy's
gonna say, yeah, yeah, you go that way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And that'll be the end of it. Right yep. Encounter bear,
You're gonna wet your pants. It's scary.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And a guy get a coyote away from me one
time on a hike. He didn't know him for anything. There,
you go help me out.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
This meme didn't start with a woman in the woods.
It started with you would you rather have your child
wandering in the woods and come across a bear or
a man?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
In that case, definitely a man. I mean, are you
kidding me? That's just idiotic. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But again, that is the the knee jerk need of
the progressive is to hate men, hate white people, hate
the United States, whatever, self hatred.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I've got another great example of that coming up. I
one more text on this, and this is the good
closing text. Bear or man on a hiking trail? How
did you know was a man? If you haven't confirmed
his self identities, his pronoms, et cetera. The idea that
you just assumed it was a man, bad on you, boy.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
What if it's a man that identifies as a bear,
then you're yeah, way a mood.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, guy in a bear suit. I don't even know
what you do?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Would would you say bear? Or would you say, uh,
what a bears do? Yeah? A person who SSEs in
the woods like a birthing person or you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, come up with some elaborate woke term
jackasses a woods and beast? Yes, ignore them completely, and
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dei programs where they exist immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, Your show podcasts and our
Hot Lakes.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Are Strong, He.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Anyone that's using swipe to text, most likely millennial, possibly
gen z pipping fast and accurately with two thumbs again,
probably mid twenties, mid thirties. Even you'll kind of stay
at this thumb tapping age until probably about i'd say fifties.
Then you're gonna start adding in your your index finger
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unnecessarily aged sixty five plus is where you start doing
the one finger tap, holding with your left hand or
your right hand, you're getting up there when you're doing that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I just don't think that's true.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I think the one hand or two hands depends on
the size of your phone, because I've had the smaller
phone where I can reach everything with my thumb, and
then I've had the bigger phone where I got to
use both thumbs.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, I see young people.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I've sat next to lots of young people on planes
or whatever, and they're using both thumbs. Go to the
young they can go faster than me.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Definitely, my youngest who enjoys teasing me. At one point,
I'm voice texting and she says, oh, that is so boomer.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Really, I'm like, honey, it's saving me time.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Really, So young people don't voice text almost exclusively voice text.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I've not had that substantiated by like a committee of
youthful people.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
But she's you know, she probably knows. But it's interesting
to me that they don't voice text. They see it
as faster to use your thumbs, Katie or cooler.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Voice texting when not in the car or through your
Apple watch is a little it's boomer, huh, it's a
little little boomer.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If you're among people, is that what you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I mean if you're standing in a group of people
and you pull out your phone and you start firing
off a text, you know, text to voice.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, oh you. I don't care if I'm a boomer, right,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Actually I'm a gen Z, but as a gen X
gen X said, But as a friend, I'm not gen Z.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
A gen X but as a friend said to me,
But you present boomer and.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I do a fair enough okay boomer anyway, different consumer issue.
I found this so interesting. Taylor Swift isn't among She
is U. Yes, skinny, blondeheaded dating a football guy. Yes,
Taylor Swift. She is a talent's songstress, no doubt. Whether
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you're like your music or not, there's no denying that
people really dig her tunes.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But she is also.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
An absolutely savage and effective capitalist in ways that I
think are underappreciated because everybody's busy swooning over her legs
and her concerts. I've got a friend who's in the
concert business. I can't get too specific, but he's pointed
out to me that she is a voracious capitalist. She
one tour your place in line to buy tickets was
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determined by how much merchandise you bought. You spend one
hundred bucks on merch you're like fourth in line. You
spend three hundred bucks on merch step right up by
your concert ticket.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Well, then that whole selling tickets to just being the
parking lot like my niece, to making lots of money
off of that parking lot tickets, or opening the t
shirt shops and everything like they did in San Francisco
three days before the concert and having lines around the block.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, And a lot of the talk of hey man,
they're selling Owled in the sixties and seventies was idiotic,
As Pete Townsend to the who once put it, and
I thought this was pretty persuasive. He said, No, if
I let Chevy use my song for their trucks for
six months, that allows me to finance all these projects
I want to do that are not going to make
any money, but I really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Well, that's so perfectly if you need to make that reason,
I don't care if your reason is I want to
buy a yacht.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Who freaking cares? Is my song?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
The weight on with Warbler can do whatever she wants
with her songs. Back to the wayfish Warbler herself. So, oh,
that's right, the whole selling out thing. She has so
much money and employs so many people. It's just interesting
to see that she is obviously as motivated as the
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guy who you know came up as Steve Jobs was
with Apple to build a giant conglomerate.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Because she doesn't need the money. I mean, it's not
even close. But for instance, uh, she her new.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Albumny Yes, that is true. She does not need the money.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
But so why would she? For instance, her new album
is called Midnights. She has put out six different funky
uh like colored.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Vinyl albums, discs, records.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
She puts out these collectiable vinyl additions and a bunch
of weird, funky colors, and people are buying all of them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Do so a physical album? Do people have record players?
All these people? Oh yeah, a lot of people do.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I don't. I don't how would I know. I haven't
asked them.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But the collectibles you hang them on your wall or
they actually spin them.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's an interesting question.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
But this one do ude who's and he's a dude
who's a big tailor. Swift fan has spent about one
thousand dollars in the process of buying all six of
the different colored vinyls. Although streaming remains the dominant musical format,
physical media has been a growing niche where the industry
can cater to so called super fans who expressed their
dedication by shelling out big bucks for collectible versions of
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new releases, sometimes in multiple quantities.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A lot of your K pop bands are like this too.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
They have elaborate CD packages offering often featuring goodies like
postcards and photo booklets, which helped the boy band repeatedly
go to number one. Taylor Swift has put out special
edition like CD packages, even cassettes with bonus tracks. Certain
deluxe editions sold through her website have trinkets like magnets,
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photo cards, and engraved bookmarks, and my favorite, Swift's site
offered a limited run of autographed LPs for fifty dollars,
and then she had one special edition thing which featured
entries from her journal or her diary or something like
that that the completest fan would have to collect.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So you weren't here the day we talked about the
leggy La La Lauer and her making the Billionaire List
for the first time. She is so the billionaire entertainers.
She just made the list this year. There are fourteen
billionaire entertainers. She's the only one on there, including jay Z, Rihanna,
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bunch of different people. She's the only one on there
that's made the money primarily off for music. The other
ones have makeup or jay Z's got tequila or whatever
he's got, Brandon, He's got some sort of booze. She's
the only one that has done music wise. But she's
found a whole bunch of different avenues for the music
avenue of it.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Well, write music and music adjacent like merch. But yeah,
but I understand the distinction. T shirts is closer to
your music than you got a booze now, oh, one
hundred percent. Yeah, especially because you can't make money on
the music. Really, in the world of streaming, artists make nothing.
You gotta sell tickets and merch. As I've heard said
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many times, you want to support an artist by merch.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And the blonde Bellower is only thirty four.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
She's got along apparently, Apparently your trove of these phrases
is unending.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
She's got a long way to go.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
She could end up with many, many billions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I can't go on with this discussion arm Strong, the
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I found this so interesting nineteen twenty. There's a whole
dollar count in the Wooden Nickels course.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Keep in mind, folks, they're worth listen, they're made of wood.
Let's see where were we?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Ah separate occasions and reasons, but the same week, both
Elon Musk no introduction required and Jamie Diamond, the head
of JP Morgan Chase who they both made statements about
AI and what they thought AI was going to do
or be or what have you. And I guess Jamie
Diamond puts out this yearly newsletter that's super anticipated, anticipated
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by everybody on Wall Street, and the Diamond mind, I
don't know that it has a clever name, but he
writes about all debts and that one's not bad spelled differently,
but that's what makes it clever anyway. So they both
put out statements about AI that I found to be intriguing.
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So Musk said in an interview quote, my guess is
that we'll have AI that is smarter than any one
human probably around the end of next year.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What yeah, well, smarter than any individual human by the
end of next year.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yes, there are caveats, there are parentheses involved, but there
are a number of quotes here. Jamie Diamond said quote.
He said that AI could be as transformative as some
of the major technological inventions over the past several hundred years.
He said, think the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing,
the Internet, among others.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Wow, electricity, because it was who was it that said
it's bigger than fire or electricity?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I think Sundarachai, Google CEO. Who will get to in
a second?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Holy crap? He said.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
AI might lead future generations to work only three and
a half days a week.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I they do with the rest of their time and
their purposes.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I don't know how you toss off those statements like
that when I hear people toss off those statements. What
you can't not follow that up with which is going
to be the biggest disruption to humankind in world history,
And we need to figure out how we're going.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
To handle that. You can't just say that it's a
complete restructuring of human life.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yes, but people don't say that.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I think people will be invisible by next year. In
other news, right.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
A confront is moving through.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, Yeah, the AI race to build the next big
thing is sparked the talent Warren Silicon Valley. They get
into how salaries are soaring and that sort of thing.
Then they quote vinad Coslo, who's the founder of a
venture capital firm that is involved in AI ventures. He says,
within ten years, AI will take on eighty percent of
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eighty percent of the jobs that exist today. I thought
that was interesting. That's a more nuanced take, and I
appreciate it that eighty percent of the jobs. You can picture,
a significant chunk of the work will be taken on
by AI, and you will have a person who manages
the AI doing a.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Of the product a couple hours a week.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
So if he's wrong by double, if it's forty percent
of the jobs, it would be.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Human changing.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It would disrupt societies to an extent we can't even picture.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, well, because.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
If the number of humans it takes to achieve a
certain level of productivity becomes that small. And yes, we
are more than familiar with the history of predictions of
the cotting gin will cause mass unemployment or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Jazz.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Remember when I read all those predictions of how jazz
was going to ruin the world.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And it has.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
We both happen to think AI is fundamentally different because
of it's not a technology, it is intelligence. But anyway,
even if it's half that, it'll be incredibly disruptive. And
then you will have the wealth produced by that productivity
in fewer and fewer hands, and to feed and clothe
the masses of people for whom there is no work
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to do.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I actually think.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Reproductive range will fall off even further in the developed world,
and the third world will take over with guns and
knives and period. Didn't ask me about that over at
drink sometime that period in between.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
He's going to be really weird.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Oh you think, Yeah, it's going to be absolutely crazy.
A couple more quotes that I found intriguing. This is again,
mister Koslaw. The need to work in society will disappear
within twenty five years for those countries that adapt these technologies.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
The need to work is going to disappear within twenty
five years. So my kids will be in their thirties
forties and there will be no need to work.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Every psychologist worthy of his or her degree will tell
you living a life of purpose is the road to happiness.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, this is the break great breakdown on this whole topic,
because I have friends who believe, like some of you
jobs do in my opinion, that no, that'll be the
greatest period ever for humankind will be able to flourish
with arts and literature. And that ain't What's going to
happen is that what every rich kid who doesn't have
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to work for a living does is becomes a great
piano player or artist or poet.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Or do they great illustration? Do they drug themselves to
death and crash a car?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Yeah, they crash a BMW indoor river exactly what a
great illustration?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Well played.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
One more thought from this venture capital guy who is
financing a lot of this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh, I already said that, sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The technology has also led to stark warnings about the
future of humanity. That's funny that this Wall Street journal
writer who's doing a very nice job in this article,
and I'm sure they're a nice person, they thought that
was a change in topic to stark warnings the need
to work work in society will disappear within twenty five years.
That is a warning if you understand human psychology.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Got anybody who doesn't react to that with holy s
here man, you're built different than I am. Are you
have a really fanciful view of human nature?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Intelligence and wisdom are so unrelated in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Anyway, I've got a few more for you.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Earlier this week, Japan's largest telecommunications company in the country's
biggest newspaper, they got together and wrote this manifesto, this
editorial that cautioned that unless AI is restrained, good luck quote.
In the worst case scenario, democracy and social order could collapse,
resulting in wars.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well that's a worst case scenario, and social order collapses.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Some experts say productions of AI's transformative powers have been overblown.
Gary Marcus, cognitive scientists who sold an AI startup in sixteen,
said AI may one day approach the level where it
can transform society, but there has to be vast improvements
to approach the level of change people are talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I hope he's right. He thinks it will mostly be
a useful tool for a very very long time. I
hope he's right.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, most people don't agree with him, Yes, there are
more people. A lot of people disagree with him, and
then that crowd is split into this will be a
disaster for humankind or this will be the great flourishing
of humankind that everybody's ever dreamed.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Of all their lives.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I think they're nuts to think that. Yeah, one final
irony if I might.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
It's so interesting that all of the people being quoted
in these articles are so driven by a sense of
purpose to develop AI that they work ungodly amounts of
time with unimaginable energy and harness unfathomable resources to a
achieve goals. And then they say, and when we're done,
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nobody will have any goals at all, and they'll be happy.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Look in the mirror, folks, Why that is really insightful.
So what gets you out of bed every morning? Accomplishing
this you can become wealthy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So just having.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
A enough to get by without accomplishing anything doesn't sound
like an enjoyable life to you, because you're killing yourself
to try to have more money and accomplish something.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Think about that for a second.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
These would be the first guys who'd have a gun
in their mouth, right because they're miserable.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Right. Wow, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You gotta see this.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
The Paris Olympics is providing athletes with twin sized beds
that have cardboard frames to keep them from having sex.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
They said all athletes will have beds except for the
badminton team, who.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
They don't have to worry about.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Wow, that was uncalled for?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
What is that implication that people who play badminton don't
need the gentle touch of a sexual encounter.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Or can't get it again? Shocking? And I'll tell you
what if you find out, Yeah, these are special beds
rigged up so you can't have sex on them. Yeah,
well I'm finding elsewhere then another there are alternates. I
don't mean to get to a graphic here, but if
you've restricted yourself to beds throughout your life, you've missed out.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So the new chat GPT four to zhero not only
can you type stuff in it and it talks back
like a human, but it can take in things visually
and like a human or sound. So it's audio, visual
and text. And this is a move forward in the
whole AI thing. And I saw some of the videos
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showing how this will work yesterday. This one was really cool,
a real time visual assistant to help anyone with low
vision navigate the world better.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And it was a guy who is.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You know, legally blind can kind of see, but can't
like pick up details or anything like that. He holds
up his iPhone so it's the lens of the iPhone,
and then the AI chat bot describing to him what
he's seeing and helping him out with For instance, okay,
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chatbot or whatever you call the person, I just ordered
my uber car to come pick me up. It's supposed
to be a green camera. Can you tell me when
it's coming? And he holds a camera up to the street,
and the Chadbood says, not yet, looks like it's coming.
It's coming up here on the right. It's pulling up,
so it's the car right in front of you. Have
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a nice day.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And I thought that's unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, huh.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I think it'll still put ninety percent of people out
of work and will lead to a dystopia d or
violent revolution. But meanwhile, I could see this sort of
thing being incredibly helpful for handicapped or visually impaired folks
or whatever. The fact that you can say to the
new versions, hey, what do you think of what I'm wearing?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
They'll say, oh, that's the red shirt.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Looks good on you, And especially there in the light
of your office, as it can see you're in an
office setting.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I did see a demonstration of the new translation thing,
which was incredible. A woman speaking Italian and a guy
speaking English, and it was like having a translator sit
in front of you. You like America so far, and
then the chat thing would say how do you like
America so far? In Italian and then back and forth,
just like you had a translator sitting there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It was amazing. Not so good. I do not to
like a europizza. It's a dooless spicy.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
That would be amazing, though. Can you imagine travel well
and you like your You're a semi disastrous trip to
Russia back in the day. I mean, don't meant it
was very stressful. Yeah it was. It was semi disastrous.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Uh oh, yeah, would have been, and I would have
been a completely different situation.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And then so when I was walking around the museum
and I had any no idea what anything was because
it was all in Russian, I finally left because what
am I looking at?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I don't know what anything it is.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I could have just put my iPhone on it and
it would have read it to me and told me
what it said.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I mean, that's that's amazing. Yes, And the other thing
you said is true.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It will leads to a dystopian we're all eating each
other like cannibals.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Katie, can you help us understand what we are about
to hear?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Only the greatest story of the weekend. This so about
a couple of weeks ago, flyers started popping up around
New York City with a picture of this guy wearing
an orange mask and it said, come to Union Square
Park at three pm on April twenty seventh to watch
me eat an entire jar of cheeseballs. And at the
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bottom it had an Instagram handle cheeseball Man four to seven.
Nobody has any idea this guy's identity.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And he had.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
An Instagram account and posted to promote the event, and.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I'd got him a different point in my life. I
am there, I am so there.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I have put that on my calendar and I make
sure I am free at that.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Moment, and so were hundreds of other people. Wow, it
sounds like a party to me. Yeah. And so we
have audio of outwind mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He just ate the final ball what was at least
rose balls.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
And at the end, after he finished the ball, somebody
came up and put a giant orange traffic cone hat
on his head, and he had a flag of himself
holding a jar of cheese balls, and he ran around
the crowd with the flag.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
The world needs more of this, not less. You know
what this reminds me of, And this might be because
this was another difficult time in world history.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
You know're like.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Way back like World War One era, depression era, something
like that, when like people climb up on flagpoles and
sitting up there or swallowing goldfish or whatever.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Bringing themselves into automobiles phone booths.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yeah, I wonder if when times get really ugly, if
we don't just like look for really odd escapes like
cheeseball man.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Cheeseball man. I think I can can do it. I
could do it.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I think I could eat And I've bought those giant
jars of cheese balls before. I've got to admit I'm
not one hundred percent sure I know what a cheese
ball is. I mean, I know, like the big cheese
ball you have at a party and your sled stuff
to put it on crack smaller than a golf ball,
It's like a cheese puff. Yeah, bigger, pretty big cheese puff.
And you can buy where do you buy the big
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jar of them? I've purchased them before.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
They've got them at Costco. You can get them at
beth Moo. They're a big bar snack.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Costco is where I've probably purchased the big cheese bull thing.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
So as I think I have actually seen that dolish.
So how how impressive of feet do you consider ingesting
an entire jar of them?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
On a scale es say to five? The whole jars
of five? You would feel so awful afterwards.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
The jar that he consumed was twice the size of
his head.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, that those jars. I've purchased that very jar. It's
pretty big.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I I could do it, but I would vomit, I'm
pretty sure. And it would rip all the skin off
the roof of your mouth. You can't eat a lot
of those cheese balls without just destroying your mouth. Wow.
So that was a real act of bravery. Yeah, that
why the crash. I just love that he put out flyers.
Come see me eat an entire jar of cheeseballs saturdayn
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too up.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
And let's hear the audio again, Michael, why not.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Do you have any idea how long it's tooken?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
So?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And then I would like how this ended.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And then everybody thinks, well, I guess we've got a
bottom much out of this as we can, and they
slow bars come on.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
After a half hour, cheeseball Man accomplished his quest and
immediately started signing autographs.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
There you go, and now he's viral or something, so
many just signed him CBM.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
But that's fine. Arm Strong.
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Speaker 1 (36:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm strong and Getty and no Armstrong and Jetty wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So, Katie, have you or any of your female friends
been engaging in this man or bar meme that were
like a month behind on?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay? Guye roll huge eye roll. Okay, I'll set it
up here and then you can you can get into it.
The eye roll followed by the headshake of.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Disgust because this is the dumbest thing that's hit the
Internet in a while.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But go ahead, jam, Well, we're wait behind, and I
apologize if you're like, that's that, that's so yesterday's news,
because from what I understand, this has been the hot
topic for quite a few weeks. But we're old and slow.
So it's a very simple question. If you're a woman
hiking alone in the woods, would you rather encounter an
unknown man or unknown bear? Would you rather encounter a
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strange a dude you don't know, or a bear? And
depending on which social media venue you're on, But it
ranges from well over majority on all of them, two
thirds to eighty five percent of the women say absolutely bear,
Absolutely bear, I'd rather run into a bear than a
dude out in the woods alone. First of all, what
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if you of your friends thought? And then I'll get
into some of the higher level sociology commentary around it.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I have not brought this up to my circle of
friends because the ones that would know about it are
going to be the ones that would say bear. This
is the dumbest thing on the planet. I don't know
why you would want to encounter a bear. I don't
have you not heard of male toxicity?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh kid, do you know a break?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You would rather encounter a wild bear while you're out
on a hike than passing some dude you don't know?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's where we are. That is where we are, and
I think we actually are there. Obviously there would be
a certain amount of jerkin with people or polsters. It's
not really a pole, just a question posted on TikTok
or whatever. But people kind of get a kick out
of saying bear. But the fact that people get a
kick out of saying bear, I find troubling that you
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just you like this idea that men are so awful
and dangerous that I'd.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Rather be eaten by a bear.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Like a lot of the most common sort of comment
is if a bear eats me, at least it's going
to be quick and easy a man. All the horrible
things a man might do to me, oh, be much
worse than being eaten by a bear. Is kind of
the common theme among the eighty percent of women who
feel that way.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
My concern is that this might erode bear awareness, but
that's just me.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Just let all of the women who said bear encounter
a bear.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It'll be great rate.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I have had a couple reactions in the last few years, though,
where women in recoiled in horror from the most casual
like approach your conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That didn't used to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I feel like, I don't I don't know what's being
taught to young women about how afraid you should be
of men in public or what.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But you look like a serial killer. That's most of them.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But I've always looked like a serial killer, and they
didn't always get this reaction.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, Joe stole part one of my answer. Part two
is this is the Internet. The Internet is doing this.
The TikTok algorithms, the Instagram algorithms.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Anytime you go on.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
This bear man thing has been all over the place,
and it is it's the this is the dumbest comparison.
I'm my blood pressure is going up if you can't
tell the fact that this is like the main It
was trending on every social media outlet you can imagine,
and the top videos that you clicked on were all
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women talking about how they would much rather encounter a
bear and then firing off all the lists of reasons
why they wouldn't want to encounter a man, which is stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And then you get all the kids that echo that.
I think, yeah, h.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Just the whole framework where you're you're answering one question
with an answer that's meant to express who you are
and what you're concerned about and how you believe in
toxic masculinity and all. I just if you want to
say something, say something, Yeah, I don't know, I just
this annoys me. It's it's another example of if you're
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going to be accepted as an as a progressive, you've
got to hate the United States. You've got to be
self hating, especially if you're white people. That's like your uh,
that's your bona fide. Can you use that in singular.
I don't know that's how you prove that you're worthy
of respect, self hatred and look, I get it as
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the father of a couple of daughters that you know
there's there's some risk and encountering a man in the wild,
But it's just a sillier question. A bear is a
freaking wild piece.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What would you put.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
This seems like a good opportunity for me to express
my disapproval of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's all this is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Of course, you got to flip it around for men hiking.
Do you want to encounter a cougar or a cougar? Okay,
your choice of a cougar or cougar, I'll not I'd
go with the cougar over the cougar any day. I'll
tell you that as dumb as as as this texture.
I've literally been chased and nearly attacked by a man
in the woods. They later caught him and arrested him.
But it's still rather run into a man than a bear.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yes, your experienced hiker.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I used to hike every single day and I have
passed hundreds, if not thousands, of random men in the woods,
and I can tell you if that number had been
hundreds of thousands of bears. I probably wouldn't been. You're
talking to you right now.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, got a lot of texts on this for decades,
and leftist feminized men that strong men are toxic, et cetera,
et cetera. Now women complain there are no strong men
available to hook up with. We've got a lot of
that theme. Hey, there's no wonder nobody's having kids. I
was thinking about somebody we used to work with around here,
talking about why he was still single and didn't date much.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Just the whole.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Women he encountered look at men like they're all rapists.
Like that, that's your starting point, and you have to
convince otherwise.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Another aspect of this that bothers me is that whether
you're a parent, or a teacher or even a cop,
in some situations, people tend to they react to the
they live up to your expectations of them. And if
we are constantly giving the message, sending the message to
young men that men are dangerous, violent, and misogynist beasts,
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then the young man has the option of either a
being that or b being some sort of weird reaction
to that extra effeminate passive, you know, making sure they're.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You know, I just it's unhealthy. Me go ahead.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh, I'm just thinking from a woman's standpoint too. It
also says something about our growing women's security because I'm
secure enough in myself, like if I'm out, I'm situationally
aware and all of those things. So I think that
if I were to encounter the bad man on the trail,
I would be able to know at least how to
start to protect myself and handle it. We just have
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a bunch of really weak, scared women right now, too.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
We it's the same thing that has been going on
for decades now around child abduction. We've got to quit
acting like every child gets abducted, every woman gets raped.
These are extraordinary instances. That's why they make the news
the way they do.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
They're not common, right, what's the exceptionality bias or rarity bias?
The point is, uh, And you're probably familiar with this,
but it's worth keeping in mind that things make the
news because they're rare, and then everybody sees them and
becomes convinced they're common. Yeah, it's the very rarest of
things that you hear about the most. Because man goes
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to work without incident Hug's wife, who he loves afterward,
is not gonna make the news. Yeah, and that happens
millions and millions of times every single day.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
If you're lost in the woods and you encountered a man,
ninety nine percent of the time, maybe more, the guy's
gonna say, yeah, yeah, you go that way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And that'll be the end of it. Right yep. Encounter bear,
You're gonna wet your pants. It's scary.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And a guy get a coyote away from me one
time on a hike. He didn't know him for anything. There,
you go help me out.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
This meme didn't start with a woman in the woods.
It started with you would you rather have your child
wandering in the woods and come across a bear or
a man?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
In that case, definitely a man. I mean, are you
kidding me? That's just idiotic. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But again, that is the the knee jerk need of
the progressive is to hate men, hate white people, hate
the United States, whatever, self hatred.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I've got another great example of that coming up. I
one more text on this, and this is the good
closing text. Bear or man on a hiking trail? How
did you know was a man? If you haven't confirmed
his self identities, his pronoms, et cetera. The idea that
you just assumed it was a man, bad on you, boy.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
What if it's a man that identifies as a bear,
then you're yeah, way a mood.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, guy in a bear suit. I don't even know
what you do?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Would would you say bear? Or would you say, uh,
what a bears do? Yeah? A person who SSEs in
the woods like a birthing person or you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, come up with some elaborate woke term
jackasses a woods and beast? Yes, ignore them completely, and
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dei programs where they exist immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
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Speaker 2 (09:52):
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Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Anyone that's using swipe to text, most likely millennial, possibly
gen z pipping fast and accurately with two thumbs again,
probably mid twenties, mid thirties. Even you'll kind of stay
at this thumb tapping age until probably about i'd say fifties.
Then you're gonna start adding in your your index finger
(10:26):
unnecessarily aged sixty five plus is where you start doing
the one finger tap, holding with your left hand or
your right hand, you're getting up there when you're doing that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I just don't think that's true.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I think the one hand or two hands depends on
the size of your phone, because I've had the smaller
phone where I can reach everything with my thumb, and
then I've had the bigger phone where I got to
use both thumbs.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, I see young people.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I've sat next to lots of young people on planes
or whatever, and they're using both thumbs. Go to the
young they can go faster than me.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Definitely, my youngest who enjoys teasing me. At one point,
I'm voice texting and she says, oh, that is so boomer.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Really, I'm like, honey, it's saving me time.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Really, So young people don't voice text almost exclusively voice text.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I've not had that substantiated by like a committee of
youthful people.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
But she's you know, she probably knows. But it's interesting
to me that they don't voice text. They see it
as faster to use your thumbs, Katie or cooler.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Voice texting when not in the car or through your
Apple watch is a little it's boomer, huh, it's a
little little boomer.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If you're among people, is that what you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I mean if you're standing in a group of people
and you pull out your phone and you start firing
off a text, you know, text to voice.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, oh you. I don't care if I'm a boomer, right,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Actually I'm a gen Z, but as a gen X
gen X said, But as a friend, I'm not gen Z.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
A gen X but as a friend said to me,
But you present boomer and.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I do a fair enough okay boomer anyway, different consumer issue.
I found this so interesting. Taylor Swift isn't among She
is U. Yes, skinny, blondeheaded dating a football guy. Yes,
Taylor Swift. She is a talent's songstress, no doubt. Whether
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you're like your music or not, there's no denying that
people really dig her tunes.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But she is also.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
An absolutely savage and effective capitalist in ways that I
think are underappreciated because everybody's busy swooning over her legs
and her concerts. I've got a friend who's in the
concert business. I can't get too specific, but he's pointed
out to me that she is a voracious capitalist. She
one tour your place in line to buy tickets was
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determined by how much merchandise you bought. You spend one
hundred bucks on merch you're like fourth in line. You
spend three hundred bucks on merch step right up by
your concert ticket.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Well, then that whole selling tickets to just being the
parking lot like my niece, to making lots of money
off of that parking lot tickets, or opening the t
shirt shops and everything like they did in San Francisco
three days before the concert and having lines around the block.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, And a lot of the talk of hey man,
they're selling Owled in the sixties and seventies was idiotic,
As Pete Townsend to the who once put it, and
I thought this was pretty persuasive. He said, No, if
I let Chevy use my song for their trucks for
six months, that allows me to finance all these projects
I want to do that are not going to make
any money, but I really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Well, that's so perfectly if you need to make that reason,
I don't care if your reason is I want to
buy a yacht.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Who freaking cares? Is my song?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
The weight on with Warbler can do whatever she wants
with her songs. Back to the wayfish Warbler herself. So, oh,
that's right, the whole selling out thing. She has so
much money and employs so many people. It's just interesting
to see that she is obviously as motivated as the
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guy who you know came up as Steve Jobs was
with Apple to build a giant conglomerate.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Because she doesn't need the money. I mean, it's not
even close. But for instance, uh, she her new.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Albumny Yes, that is true. She does not need the money.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
But so why would she? For instance, her new album
is called Midnights. She has put out six different funky
uh like colored.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Vinyl albums, discs, records.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
She puts out these collectiable vinyl additions and a bunch
of weird, funky colors, and people are buying all of them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Do so a physical album? Do people have record players?
All these people? Oh yeah, a lot of people do.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I don't. I don't how would I know. I haven't
asked them.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But the collectibles you hang them on your wall or
they actually spin them.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's an interesting question.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
But this one do ude who's and he's a dude
who's a big tailor. Swift fan has spent about one
thousand dollars in the process of buying all six of
the different colored vinyls. Although streaming remains the dominant musical format,
physical media has been a growing niche where the industry
can cater to so called super fans who expressed their
dedication by shelling out big bucks for collectible versions of
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new releases, sometimes in multiple quantities.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A lot of your K pop bands are like this too.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
They have elaborate CD packages offering often featuring goodies like
postcards and photo booklets, which helped the boy band repeatedly
go to number one. Taylor Swift has put out special
edition like CD packages, even cassettes with bonus tracks. Certain
deluxe editions sold through her website have trinkets like magnets,
(15:48):
photo cards, and engraved bookmarks, and my favorite, Swift's site
offered a limited run of autographed LPs for fifty dollars,
and then she had one special edition thing which featured
entries from her journal or her diary or something like
that that the completest fan would have to collect.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So you weren't here the day we talked about the
leggy La La Lauer and her making the Billionaire List
for the first time. She is so the billionaire entertainers.
She just made the list this year. There are fourteen
billionaire entertainers. She's the only one on there, including jay Z, Rihanna,
(16:29):
bunch of different people. She's the only one on there
that's made the money primarily off for music. The other
ones have makeup or jay Z's got tequila or whatever
he's got, Brandon, He's got some sort of booze. She's
the only one that has done music wise. But she's
found a whole bunch of different avenues for the music
avenue of it.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Well, write music and music adjacent like merch. But yeah,
but I understand the distinction. T shirts is closer to
your music than you got a booze now, oh, one
hundred percent. Yeah, especially because you can't make money on
the music. Really, in the world of streaming, artists make nothing.
You gotta sell tickets and merch. As I've heard said
(17:09):
many times, you want to support an artist by merch.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And the blonde Bellower is only thirty four.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
She's got along apparently, Apparently your trove of these phrases
is unending.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
She's got a long way to go.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
She could end up with many, many billions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I can't go on with this discussion arm Strong, the
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I found this so interesting nineteen twenty. There's a whole
dollar count in the Wooden Nickels course.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Keep in mind, folks, they're worth listen, they're made of wood.
Let's see where were we?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Ah separate occasions and reasons, but the same week, both
Elon Musk no introduction required and Jamie Diamond, the head
of JP Morgan Chase who they both made statements about
AI and what they thought AI was going to do
or be or what have you. And I guess Jamie
Diamond puts out this yearly newsletter that's super anticipated, anticipated
(18:24):
by everybody on Wall Street, and the Diamond mind, I
don't know that it has a clever name, but he
writes about all debts and that one's not bad spelled differently,
but that's what makes it clever anyway. So they both
put out statements about AI that I found to be intriguing.
(18:45):
So Musk said in an interview quote, my guess is
that we'll have AI that is smarter than any one
human probably around the end of next year.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What yeah, well, smarter than any individual human by the
end of next year.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yes, there are caveats, there are parentheses involved, but there
are a number of quotes here. Jamie Diamond said quote.
He said that AI could be as transformative as some
of the major technological inventions over the past several hundred years.
He said, think the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing,
the Internet, among others.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Wow, electricity, because it was who was it that said
it's bigger than fire or electricity?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I think Sundarachai, Google CEO. Who will get to in
a second?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Holy crap? He said.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
AI might lead future generations to work only three and
a half days a week.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I they do with the rest of their time and
their purposes.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I don't know how you toss off those statements like
that when I hear people toss off those statements. What
you can't not follow that up with which is going
to be the biggest disruption to humankind in world history,
And we need to figure out how we're going.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
To handle that. You can't just say that it's a
complete restructuring of human life.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yes, but people don't say that.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I think people will be invisible by next year. In
other news, right.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
A confront is moving through.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, Yeah, the AI race to build the next big
thing is sparked the talent Warren Silicon Valley. They get
into how salaries are soaring and that sort of thing.
Then they quote vinad Coslo, who's the founder of a
venture capital firm that is involved in AI ventures. He says,
within ten years, AI will take on eighty percent of
(20:39):
eighty percent of the jobs that exist today. I thought
that was interesting. That's a more nuanced take, and I
appreciate it that eighty percent of the jobs. You can picture,
a significant chunk of the work will be taken on
by AI, and you will have a person who manages
the AI doing a.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Of the product a couple hours a week.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
So if he's wrong by double, if it's forty percent
of the jobs, it would be.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Human changing.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It would disrupt societies to an extent we can't even picture.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, well, because.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
If the number of humans it takes to achieve a
certain level of productivity becomes that small. And yes, we
are more than familiar with the history of predictions of
the cotting gin will cause mass unemployment or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Jazz.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Remember when I read all those predictions of how jazz
was going to ruin the world.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And it has.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
We both happen to think AI is fundamentally different because
of it's not a technology, it is intelligence. But anyway,
even if it's half that, it'll be incredibly disruptive. And
then you will have the wealth produced by that productivity
in fewer and fewer hands, and to feed and clothe
the masses of people for whom there is no work
(22:05):
to do.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I actually think.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Reproductive range will fall off even further in the developed world,
and the third world will take over with guns and
knives and period. Didn't ask me about that over at
drink sometime that period in between.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
He's going to be really weird.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Oh you think, Yeah, it's going to be absolutely crazy.
A couple more quotes that I found intriguing. This is again,
mister Koslaw. The need to work in society will disappear
within twenty five years for those countries that adapt these technologies.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
The need to work is going to disappear within twenty
five years. So my kids will be in their thirties
forties and there will be no need to work.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Every psychologist worthy of his or her degree will tell
you living a life of purpose is the road to happiness.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, this is the break great breakdown on this whole topic,
because I have friends who believe, like some of you
jobs do in my opinion, that no, that'll be the
greatest period ever for humankind will be able to flourish
with arts and literature. And that ain't What's going to
happen is that what every rich kid who doesn't have
(23:18):
to work for a living does is becomes a great
piano player or artist or poet.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Or do they great illustration? Do they drug themselves to
death and crash a car?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Yeah, they crash a BMW indoor river exactly what a
great illustration?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Well played.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
One more thought from this venture capital guy who is
financing a lot of this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh, I already said that, sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The technology has also led to stark warnings about the
future of humanity. That's funny that this Wall Street journal
writer who's doing a very nice job in this article,
and I'm sure they're a nice person, they thought that
was a change in topic to stark warnings the need
to work work in society will disappear within twenty five years.
That is a warning if you understand human psychology.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Got anybody who doesn't react to that with holy s
here man, you're built different than I am. Are you
have a really fanciful view of human nature?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Intelligence and wisdom are so unrelated in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Anyway, I've got a few more for you.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Earlier this week, Japan's largest telecommunications company in the country's
biggest newspaper, they got together and wrote this manifesto, this
editorial that cautioned that unless AI is restrained, good luck quote.
In the worst case scenario, democracy and social order could collapse,
resulting in wars.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well that's a worst case scenario, and social order collapses.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Some experts say productions of AI's transformative powers have been overblown.
Gary Marcus, cognitive scientists who sold an AI startup in sixteen,
said AI may one day approach the level where it
can transform society, but there has to be vast improvements
to approach the level of change people are talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I hope he's right. He thinks it will mostly be
a useful tool for a very very long time. I
hope he's right.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, most people don't agree with him, Yes, there are
more people. A lot of people disagree with him, and
then that crowd is split into this will be a
disaster for humankind or this will be the great flourishing
of humankind that everybody's ever dreamed.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Of all their lives.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I think they're nuts to think that. Yeah, one final
irony if I might.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
It's so interesting that all of the people being quoted
in these articles are so driven by a sense of
purpose to develop AI that they work ungodly amounts of
time with unimaginable energy and harness unfathomable resources to a
achieve goals. And then they say, and when we're done,
(26:03):
nobody will have any goals at all, and they'll be happy.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Look in the mirror, folks, Why that is really insightful.
So what gets you out of bed every morning? Accomplishing
this you can become wealthy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So just having.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
A enough to get by without accomplishing anything doesn't sound
like an enjoyable life to you, because you're killing yourself
to try to have more money and accomplish something.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Think about that for a second.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
These would be the first guys who'd have a gun
in their mouth, right because they're miserable.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Right. Wow, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You gotta see this.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
The Paris Olympics is providing athletes with twin sized beds
that have cardboard frames to keep them from having sex.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
They said all athletes will have beds except for the
badminton team, who.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
They don't have to worry about.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Wow, that was uncalled for?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
What is that implication that people who play badminton don't
need the gentle touch of a sexual encounter.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Or can't get it again? Shocking? And I'll tell you
what if you find out, Yeah, these are special beds
rigged up so you can't have sex on them. Yeah,
well I'm finding elsewhere then another there are alternates. I
don't mean to get to a graphic here, but if
you've restricted yourself to beds throughout your life, you've missed out.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So the new chat GPT four to zhero not only
can you type stuff in it and it talks back
like a human, but it can take in things visually
and like a human or sound. So it's audio, visual
and text. And this is a move forward in the
whole AI thing. And I saw some of the videos
(28:20):
showing how this will work yesterday. This one was really cool,
a real time visual assistant to help anyone with low
vision navigate the world better.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And it was a guy who is.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You know, legally blind can kind of see, but can't
like pick up details or anything like that. He holds
up his iPhone so it's the lens of the iPhone,
and then the AI chat bot describing to him what
he's seeing and helping him out with For instance, okay,
(28:53):
chatbot or whatever you call the person, I just ordered
my uber car to come pick me up. It's supposed
to be a green camera. Can you tell me when
it's coming? And he holds a camera up to the street,
and the Chadbood says, not yet, looks like it's coming.
It's coming up here on the right. It's pulling up,
so it's the car right in front of you. Have
(29:13):
a nice day.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And I thought that's unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, huh.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I think it'll still put ninety percent of people out
of work and will lead to a dystopia d or
violent revolution. But meanwhile, I could see this sort of
thing being incredibly helpful for handicapped or visually impaired folks
or whatever. The fact that you can say to the
new versions, hey, what do you think of what I'm wearing?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
They'll say, oh, that's the red shirt.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Looks good on you, And especially there in the light
of your office, as it can see you're in an
office setting.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I did see a demonstration of the new translation thing,
which was incredible. A woman speaking Italian and a guy
speaking English, and it was like having a translator sit
in front of you. You like America so far, and
then the chat thing would say how do you like
America so far? In Italian and then back and forth,
just like you had a translator sitting there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It was amazing. Not so good. I do not to
like a europizza. It's a dooless spicy.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
That would be amazing, though. Can you imagine travel well
and you like your You're a semi disastrous trip to
Russia back in the day. I mean, don't meant it
was very stressful. Yeah it was. It was semi disastrous.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Uh oh, yeah, would have been, and I would have
been a completely different situation.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And then so when I was walking around the museum
and I had any no idea what anything was because
it was all in Russian, I finally left because what
am I looking at?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I don't know what anything it is.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I could have just put my iPhone on it and
it would have read it to me and told me
what it said.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I mean, that's that's amazing. Yes, And the other thing
you said is true.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It will leads to a dystopian we're all eating each
other like cannibals.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Katie, can you help us understand what we are about
to hear?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Only the greatest story of the weekend. This so about
a couple of weeks ago, flyers started popping up around
New York City with a picture of this guy wearing
an orange mask and it said, come to Union Square
Park at three pm on April twenty seventh to watch
me eat an entire jar of cheeseballs. And at the
(31:27):
bottom it had an Instagram handle cheeseball Man four to seven.
Nobody has any idea this guy's identity.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And he had.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
An Instagram account and posted to promote the event, and.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I'd got him a different point in my life. I
am there, I am so there.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I have put that on my calendar and I make
sure I am free at that.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Moment, and so were hundreds of other people. Wow, it
sounds like a party to me. Yeah. And so we
have audio of outwind mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He just ate the final ball what was at least
rose balls.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
And at the end, after he finished the ball, somebody
came up and put a giant orange traffic cone hat
on his head, and he had a flag of himself
holding a jar of cheese balls, and he ran around
the crowd with the flag.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
The world needs more of this, not less. You know
what this reminds me of, And this might be because
this was another difficult time in world history.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
You know're like.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Way back like World War One era, depression era, something
like that, when like people climb up on flagpoles and
sitting up there or swallowing goldfish or whatever.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Bringing themselves into automobiles phone booths.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yeah, I wonder if when times get really ugly, if
we don't just like look for really odd escapes like
cheeseball man.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Cheeseball man. I think I can can do it. I
could do it.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I think I could eat And I've bought those giant
jars of cheese balls before. I've got to admit I'm
not one hundred percent sure I know what a cheese
ball is. I mean, I know, like the big cheese
ball you have at a party and your sled stuff
to put it on crack smaller than a golf ball,
It's like a cheese puff. Yeah, bigger, pretty big cheese puff.
And you can buy where do you buy the big
(33:40):
jar of them? I've purchased them before.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
They've got them at Costco. You can get them at
beth Moo. They're a big bar snack.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Costco is where I've probably purchased the big cheese bull thing.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
So as I think I have actually seen that dolish.
So how how impressive of feet do you consider ingesting
an entire jar of them?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
On a scale es say to five? The whole jars
of five? You would feel so awful afterwards.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
The jar that he consumed was twice the size of
his head.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, that those jars. I've purchased that very jar. It's
pretty big.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I I could do it, but I would vomit, I'm
pretty sure. And it would rip all the skin off
the roof of your mouth. You can't eat a lot
of those cheese balls without just destroying your mouth. Wow.
So that was a real act of bravery. Yeah, that
why the crash. I just love that he put out flyers.
Come see me eat an entire jar of cheeseballs saturdayn
(34:34):
too up.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
And let's hear the audio again, Michael, why not.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Do you have any idea how long it's tooken?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
So?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And then I would like how this ended.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And then everybody thinks, well, I guess we've got a
bottom much out of this as we can, and they
slow bars come on.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
After a half hour, cheeseball Man accomplished his quest and
immediately started signing autographs.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
There you go, and now he's viral or something, so
many just signed him CBM.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
But that's fine. Arm Strong.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
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this unbelievable radio program.
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