July 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Amazon's birthday & Grok
- The dark side of AI
- A Scouts story from Jack, the Epstein files & AI robots
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Shoe, Getty Armstrong and Getty, and he
Armstrong and Yetty. I'm Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm the founder of Amazon dot Com.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Three years ago came across the startling statistic that web
usage was growing at twenty three hundred percent a year.
So I decided I would try and find a business
plan that made sense in the context of that growth.
And I picked books as the first best product to
sell online, making a list of like twenty different products
that you might be able to sell, and books were
great as the first best because books are incredibly unusual
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in one respect, and that is that there are more
items in the book category and there are items in
any other category by far.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Thirty years ago today and known, Jeff Bezos decides to
sell used books online and was mocked quite a bit
for a very long time for a stupid idea, and
is now the second richest person in the world and
Amazon dominates everything. Jeffrey and his wife has giant fake
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lips and fake hoots.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Wow, that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
His business acumen is more interesting to me, and the
point he makes.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I was just looking at electric razers the other day
and being dizzied by the variety of features and different
products and stuff like that. But you know, any one
or two or one hundred of them are more or
less interchangeable.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Not books.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If I go for Moby Dick, please don't give me
the myth of the rational voter. A couple of books
mentioned in recent days. Yeah, you've got to have both
of those or all ten thousand of them. Anyway, it's
quite a story. Yeah, he was mocked for not making
a prom fit for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
A couple of news items real quick, before we get
into other stuff. Trump said behind closed doors to Republican
lawmakers he's going to fire Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chief,
because he refuses to lower interest rates. Trump is now
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sitting in the Chinese restaurant that is the Oval Office.
He redecorated it. It looks like a Chinese restaurant, lots
of gold. Anyway, he's sitting in the Oval Office right now.
And he said, and I quote, highly unlikely he'll fire
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fed chair. So he said, one thing behind closed door
is a different thing in public. So whatever wake me away.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
If the tariff driven inflation comes home to roost next
couple of months, the last thing they're going to want
to do is drop interest rates.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And absolutely right, Oh, the other news item I wanted
to mention voting today in the House, NPR PBS could
drastically lose funding like lots of their funding. You don't
like Elmo, No, I don't like the government my tax
money going to progressive news, not just like left leaning news.
(03:24):
Overly progressive represents ten percent of America news. That's what
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Indoctrination of both children and adults into far left attitudes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
On the other hand, I staunchly disagree with the defunding
the Voice of America. I think we just need to
rework that just express the ideas that we hold deer
around the world. I'm a big fan of the Voice
of America. But anyway, as e quibbled for another day
also coming up this hour, if we get to it,
I believe the masses of illegal farm workers will be
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as necessary in a very short span of time as
importing lots of Chinese people are to build the railroad.
Right now, the world's going to change completely because of technology.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
More on that. That will fix that whole problem. Huh,
that's interesting, speed out of technology. GROC that's the world's
richest man, not second richest Bezos, but richest Elon Musk.
That's his AI project is Grok, and last week had
had a thing about it. What did Some claimed it
was Hitler and wanted to get rid of the Jews,
which you know is problematic NBC. Now you got to
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keep in mind this is an NBC reviewer almost certainly
hates Elon Musk because of his association with Trump, so
it is probably predisposed to want to criticize Grok. So
I haven't tried it myself. Musk's Groc companions include a
flirty anime character and an anti religion panda. Okay, so
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days after Grok and they're anti anti Semitism scandal rocked X,
Elon introduced two animated characters that try to pressure users
into sexually explicit or violent conversations, says this NBC reviewer.
And again, I might not agree with his take on
it if I actually used it myself. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And it could be that they all all of the
AI platforms have roughly the same flaws.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
If you used them that way, right if you decided
you wanted to jerk around the characters or the ai
groc is calling the character's companions. And so far there
are two companions that users can chat with, a flirty
Japanese anime character named Annie who offers to make users
lives sexier, and also a red pend and named bad Rudy,
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who insults users with graphic or vulgar language and asks
him to join a gang with the goal of creating chaos.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Wow Wow, I remember as a kid watching antireligious penned
cartoons on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Worst cartoon ever.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Bad Rudy. In videos posted on x and in conversations
with NBC News, bad Rudy said it wanted to carry
out a variety of violent schemes, from stealing a yacht
off a California peer to overthrowing the pope. Bad Rudy
has told users in various encounters that it wanted to
crash weddings, bomb banks, replace Baby's formula with whiskey, kill billionaires,
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and spike of town's water supply with hot sauce and glitter.
It also said that it takes inspiration from a prominent
Russian born anarchists and violent revolutionary am a Goldman. Now,
so what I don't know about this is did you
lead this AI down the like do you think I
should give my put whiskey in my baby's formula? And
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Grox said yes for whatever reason, trying to be funny,
and then they reported it as like it suggested that
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, often you have to work pretty hard to quote
unquote jail break these things from the limitations that are
built into them.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
But I don't know, right, and then when you get
them to do something like that, you re, yeah, I
don't know. I don't know what either, Annie. That's the
sexual one is graphic in a different way. Wearing a
revealing dress, it strips to its underwear if a user
flirts with it enough. According to videos of interactions posted
on x, the two animated characters respond to voice commands
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and questions. As a answer the questions, their lips move
and they make realistic gestures. Well, if you have a
flirty character and it strips down if you ask it
to what is that a knock on Elon's I mean
that is going to happen. That is going to be
like one of the most common things in AI right.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
In fact, it's so mundane and obvious to be not
even worth discussing.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You got a cartoon that strips down to its underwear?
Are you familiar with the world of porn?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, kidding.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
By the way, pervs in the news coming up, stay
with us.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The graphic nature of the companion makes Grock an outlier
amongst the most popular AI chatbots, this NBC critic says,
and it shows how Musk continues to push AI chatbots
in an extreme direction. Now this is classic NBC News
hates elon sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Here.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The National Center on on Sexual Exploitation and Anti Pornography
and Anti sexual Exploitation nonprofit on Tuesday called on ai
X to remove their anti chatbot, saying in a statement
that the character was childlike and promoted high risk sexual behavior. Again,
are you familiar with the internet and the promoting of
high risk sexual behavior? It's like ninety percent of the
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traffic on the Internet. Like literally, really, I.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Have sympathy with these folks.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, I hate it too. I wish it didn't exist
at all. If there was a way to get rid
of it. I'd vote for it today, but it exists,
and I don't think you're going to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, you know, that's an awfully good lead into
something I was going to talk about.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
To take a break first.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh my god. There, we're already doomed with the amount
of entertainment and engagement we get from our phones just
from scrolling through the written word. When all this AI
stuff gets up and running in these various characters. Good luck,
you're getting your kid to go to the woods on
vacation and enjoy camping. Yeah, yeah, no kidding, all right,
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we got all that stuff Joe mentioned, and other stuff
on the way. Trump continues today, as he does his
never ending press conferences, to blast those of you who
believe in the whole Epstein thing as idiots, crazies people.
He doesn't want your support anymore. A heck of an
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interesting idea. Anyway, We've got more on that coming up.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Wow wow, Yeah, so perverts in the news.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It is my belief that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The AI and or the Internet is the apple from
the tree of knowledge that the Book of Genesis discusses,
and it will undo mankind. But having said that, there
are a couple of really interesting aspects to the online
PERV world. First of all, you've got these new defy
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websites where you can upload an image of a woman
or a girl in your life and they will return
to you an extremely realistic that person naked picture a
variety of poses and or act.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I should try that on myself to see how realistic
it is. Does it make? Is it more flattering or
less flattering?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's what I would like to know.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And according to a recent study, there are at least
eighty five new defy or undressed web websites doing significant traffic,
and the findings say the websites had a combined average
of eighteen and a half million visitors for each month
of the past six months and collectively could be making
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up to thirty six million dollars per year.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'll bet you within five years you can have that
on your phone if you want to. Yeah, and probably
easily anytime of day take a picture of someone and
then see them naked if you want. That's just gonna
be part of life. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We've talked about this a bit before, but the folks
at wired dot com are writing about this, and because
every news story is an editorial these days, and they say,
despite lawmakers and tech companies taking steps to limit the
harmful services blah blah blah, non consensual and abusive images
of women and girls. And I would tend to agree
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that it is non consensual certainly, and abusive in a way.
But it is so impossible to stop, I mean, because
see people from publishing them, but to own privately. There
is no way to square that with the First Amendment anyway.
This is why it's going to ruin mankind. But here's
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the more sickening and intriguing question that I have. And
I do not have an opinion on this. I promised
I had a take that would ender our careers, but
I just have a question. The Internet Watch Foundation, who
looks into the sort of thing, has sounded the arm
over a dramatic increase in AI generated videos depicting child
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sexual abuse, with the majority falling into the worst category
of abuse, essentially hardcore sexual abuse of children. It makes
me second sad to put it into words.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I have a feeling. I know what your big question
is going to be on this.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The Guardian reports, for instance, that the proliferation of AI
generated child sexual abuse materials, commonly known as child phronography,
has reached unprecedented levels. The UK based Internet Safety Watchdog
reports a staggering sir and ai made videos featuring child
sex abuse, with about thirteen hundred videos verified in the
first half of this year alone, compared to two in
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the same period last year.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, in five years, it'll be twenty million.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right right, Well, all right, here's here are the the
two questions, one fairly obvious and one discussed and one
that I haven't heard anybody bring up. And again, I
don't have a stance on this. It's just something I'm
wondering about. Number one, and you've heard this discussion before,
is can you make the same arguments you make about
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quote unquote real childborn that make it, that justify making
it such a horrendous crime, that being it's impossible to
produce it without the most horrific exploitation of a child,
just unquestionable child abuse. If it's entirely computer generated and
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there's no real kid involved, where does that put us
legally speaking? Is it still repugnant and sick?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yes? But where does that leave us legally? And then one.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Question that popped into my head, I'll ask it like this.
Obviously this is a leading question, but Jack, I will
pose it to you. Has the ubiquity of hardcore adult
porn led to more people fornicating or even getting together
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with a partner or fewer.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Absolutely fewer, one hundred percent by all studies.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Right, So my question is, obviously, would the existence of
this stuff, and the argument would be in which no
actual children are harmed in the making of it, would
it lead to more child sexual abuse because more people
have access to it and might get turned on by it,
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or will it be the less because you know, if
you're into it, you'll just stick with the porn. I
don't know, sickening either way.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, obviously I think it's a you're either built that
way or not. I don't know that. I don't know
if anybody knows that, but I can't believe it. It's
something that you could like become interested in. Your brain's
either broken that way or to non I think, but
anyway to.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That first part of it, Although the only argument I'd
make against that is there's a lot of like porn
that has themes of violence against women or exploitation of
women as opposed to what sex is supposed to be
which is and do it, you know, however you want
mutually satisfying.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Everybody can sense and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And people can get led down the road of liking
more and more like sick porn that could include to underage,
you know, sexual partner.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The first part, though, seems to be quite well documented
as true. If you can get I don't know, half
the satisfaction, thirty percent of the satisfaction, two thirds of
the satisfaction, I don't know what you would call, you know,
pleasuring yourself to porn that you would get from sex
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with an actual girl. And it's enough, And this absolutely
seems to be the case to make it so, you
know what, I'm not going to leave my apartment tonight
and go out and maybe meet a real woman. I'm good.
It seems to be the case. So that makes an
argument for that other part. Then you mentioned no effort,
no risk.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Again, I'm not advocating for it clearly, because you know,
I and humanity needs to think of a hell of
a lot more about it before you know, coming to
that sort of conclusion.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I'm just wondering, just thinking out loud.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Is Trump bad mouthing some of his most ardent supporters. Yes,
it doesn't seem to be worried about it. So he's
done it several times already. Today we got a little
more coming up. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Art and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Just Sart. A song and a commercial reminded me so
when I dropped my son off at boy Scout camp
the other day at this lake, and they were gonna
have to hike to their destinations a couple of mile hike.
You have to take everything in with you, so try
to pack as lightly as possible. Blah blah blah blah.
Drop them off there. I load everybody up, and this
one kid brought a guitar in the Boy Scout.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Leader.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
One of them said, you sure you want to carry
that thing for a couple of miles. I said, yeah, yeah,
I really want to bring it. You know, if you've
ever camped having a guitar around, if your guitar player
is really cool and you can sing songs, all that
sort of stuff. Anyway, we stopped for lunch. It's a
couple hour drive to this lake, and we stopped for
lunch at this little pullout and he gets his guitar
out and sets up a little thing and he's like
thirteen years old, and he sets up a little chair
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and he's sitting there on a log and he starts
in playing. And if I would have bet you ten
thousand dollars one hundred thousand million dollars, that wasn't gonna
hear what came out of his mouth as a thirteen
year old boy. Because I'm just wondering, you know, what's
a thirteen year old boy gonna play. He sits down
with his guitar. First of all, he's got an incredibly
low voice, and he says, I met her accidentally in
Saint Paul, Minnesota. He launches into a Johnny Cash song. Immediately,
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I'm like what what man. One of the other leaders
was like, unbelievable. I would have never guessed that this
is what was gonna happen. Huh. He did several Johnny
Cash songs and then put his guitar away. I'll be dag,
I know, and he played better than me, which is
highly disappointing.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Oh that's so annoying, very very annoying.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You might be annoyed if you're really into the whole
pedo ring story. That is the reason a chunk of
you voted for Donald Trump. Some of you don't even
know what I'm talking about, because I only know because
I happen to know a couple of people that are
really into this story. Their big thing was, I mean,
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they were all tweeting and texting each other leading up
to election day and Inauguration day. Finally it comes to
an end. They're all going to be exposed. The Clintons,
the Hollywood types, everybody who's been trafficking all these children
for sex all these years are going to get nailed
to the wall. And it's all tied in with Epstein
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and he's a massad agent and blackmail and all these
different sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Right, it's a form.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Of the Q and on or more like the Pizzagate thing,
just evolving, continuing to evolve, because that's the nature of
these things.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And you might be disappointed if you're in that crowd
that Trump has come out so hardcore against you today
with truth social posts and a couple of different on
mic things denouncing you and saying he doesn't need your
vote anymore. Here's the very latest from the Oval Office.
He said this was all hooks. As your attorney general,
I told you this was a hoax. What evidence, no
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it's not the Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Now I know it's a hoax. It's started by Democrats.
It's been run by the Democrats for four years.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You had Christopher Ray.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
And these characters in Kobe before him, and it's a
bad group.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
It started.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Actually, look at the Steele dossier that turned out to
be a total hoax.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The fifty one agents.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
The intelligence so called intelligence agents was a hoax. It's
all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats,
and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the
net and so they try and do the democrats work.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I call it the Epstein hoax.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
The sad part is it's people that are really doing
the Democrats work.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
There's stupid people. Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
The most energetic Trump supporters I know would be that
group of stupid Republicans that fell into the net doing
the work of the Democrats he just talked about, because
they believe that story that your Attorney General and FBI
director and others were pushing for quite some time. It
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wasn't democrats. I don't remember Democrats ever pushing this child
sex ring thing.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
No, And they're now doing the work of the Democrats.
By undermining the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
He's saying, right, but how does it tie in with
Komy and Russia GAT and all that sort of stuff. Well,
it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's not a great comparison. I mean, they're both false
and both you know, had just enough tidbit of evidence here,
evidence there that you could spin the yarn if your
James call me that, Yes, Trump is a secret Russian stooge.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
So you hear the phrase in politics sometimes about when
Bill Clinton denounced a rapper that kind of went against
his own party Sister Soldier moment. People call about it
and and it helped him bring people into support him
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from the other side.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is like, well he was, he was proving I'm
not Look, I'm left, but I'm not way out there right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
I'm willing to denounce the crazies in my party.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Is this Trump's Sister Soldier moment?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, except that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The Epstein thing is so under the radar of the vast,
vast majority of people, whereas like rap and violent imagery
and anti American imagery, and in the case of Sister Soldier,
I think it was anti cop imagery.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
That's everybody's aware of that that's like a hot top.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
This is so I mean, he's denouncing them so strongly.
It would be like, if, you know, assuming Biden wasn't
a mental patient, if Biden had come out and said, look,
these college students marching a reminder, Kamala was the actual candidate,
so use Kamala. Okay, If Kamala had come out and said,
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these college students are crazy, They've fallen for a hoax
that Israel is perpetuating a genocide. I don't want their support.
They're nuts. I mean, it's that level of your biggest supporter,
your biggest supporters, you're calling crazies, your most passionate supporters.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, it's notable. And you know what's
funny is I think the criticism of Pam Bondi and
Cash Betellent Company is legitimate. Having led people way down
the garden path of the idea that there's something here
and we're getting to the bottom of it, just to
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exploit them and keep them listening and watching them whatever,
and then just saying I've looked at the file and
there's nothing there, so we're fine here and thinking that's
gonna be good enough.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
It's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You don't understand how the way human beings behave you
needed to do better than that and explain why having
promoted the idea for the longest time, or in the
case of Pam BONDI freaking specifically said you had the
client list on your.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Desk, you gotta do better.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Do you think she needs to step down? Or will
a lot of people say that.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I don't know. It's so hard to say.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Within Trump world, it's entirely possible.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, but anyway, I was working toward a point.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh, that's absolutely I think they mishandled that they had
to do better. On the other hand, I have no
idea why Donald J would be so harsh. He doesn't
need a sister soldier. Moment he's in office, he can't
run again. He's just doesn't care who he hurts and
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bruises with his words. It seems to me like he
would have and better off of he went with. Look,
I wasn't paying attention to the Epstein thing. Really, you know,
throw Bondie and patell or whoever you want under the bus.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You know, they were pushing this. I heard what they said,
and I thought, wow, that's interesting. But I wasn't really
paying attention to it. It turns out there's nothing to it. Yeah,
they probably.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Went too far, folks, And now they've seen the actual
facts and they realized there was really nothing there. So
they you know, they owe you an apology, being as
enthusiastic as they were.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well they didn't have the facts.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Go if they owe you know, apology as opposed to
your crazy, and I don't want your support anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And stupid stupid crazy is one thing, stupid is another.
You hate to be both. Yeah, it's it's just it's
bad politics. But nah, you can do whatever he wants.
That much is clear.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Okay, Well that's that story.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I keep thinking this is over that dang story.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Interested in watching humans and just the psychological, social, political
aspects of this.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I have no interest in the story itself really because
I've I've learned everything I need to learn.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I think about it. But right, well, the way people
behave is so interesting.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
That's exactly what I thought it was. I assumed all
along they were saying this to get ratings and or
get votes, and there was nothing to it but change
a topic. I just wanted to get this story on
it's a story about China and what they're doing around AI.
And now Trump gave the go ahead from Navidio to
continue to sell the very best AI chips to China.
(26:41):
I'm not exactually sure what that's all about. I haven't
looked into it. But Chinese government they're working on AI too,
let's hear it.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
This whole robotic push comes at a time when the
Chinese government is making technology, including AI, a national priority. Already,
China's proven innovator, as we've seen with evs. Now it's
looking to dominate the field of AI enabled robots, and
the gap with the US is widening.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
According to Morgan Stanley Research.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
China is really pushing the envelope in all things leading
edge technology. And there are so many practical and also
strategic applications of AI and robotics combined.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Now, you said you saw the video of the Chinese
robot soldiers, and it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Was it was not Chinese, it was they were are
they're the good guy soldier knots.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
But they're pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Oh, it's just crazy impressive.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
There will be a human being on a battlefield in
ten years.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
On CNN, I saw a thing about China's particular robot armies,
robot dogs, robot soldiers, robot they're actually they're presenting it
all as robot athletes, which is pretty clever. Yeah, we
just want to have the best robot athletes up there.
They're really strong and fast and could jump high and
run fast and have guns, and then we'll have guns
and they'll go from being athletes to being very athletic soldiers.
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But they were damned impressive and it reminded me of
and I keep mentioning this book, but I'm reading this
listening to this book about the end of World War
II in the Pacific. We were just dominating the Japanese
in that last year of the war before we finally won,
because we just had better technology. Our technology was so
much better than what they had. We're just literally blowing
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them out of the water. But they couldn't. Our planes
could fly circles around their planes. Our intelligence was so
much better, our radars ability to reach out further than
they could. They wouldn't know where our fleet was, and
we'd show up because they knew where they were, and
blah blah blah, blah blah blah. That's how you win.
I mean, you can care about your country and be
a patriot, and that that matters. See Ukraine. But the
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main reason Ukraine's doing so well is their innovation and
their technology. And if China ends up, you know, with
way ahead of us, like this person suggested an AI,
that's gonna be a problem. We defeated the Japanese so soundly.
Not because we're a better well, it is because we're
a better sent but not because we're better people or
more honorable or ethical. It's because we we had the
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better technology to win the war, right, right, And I
hope China doesn't have that that report, man, it sounds
like they do, right.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Sometimes you just have the edge temporarily. But yeah, yeah,
plenty of awful regimes have gotten over because they had
better war making tools. Yeah, we need to at least
be fighting them to a draw. In the AI stuff,
I mean, it is so obviously the future of warfare
it seems silly to even point it out anymore. But
you're gonna have unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned aquatic vehicles, unmanned
(29:45):
men in the field, just and practically nothing but that
it relates directly that farm story.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I was excited to get into. Maybe we can do
it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But there's not going to be a damn person in
your local farm field never mind, and dozens of people
who oddly have no immigration paperwork. Please, that's going to
be as yesterday's ville. As as I said earlier, importing
a bunch of Chinese people to build the railroad, it'll
be a historical curiosity.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
And soon, well if you had a bunch of column
Ai soldiers robot soldiers, but they're various kinds of drones early,
I suppose, and then you get a big battle and
the true drone armies meet, and then some of them
are here, some on the ground, some of them look
like dogs, some look like people, some of them look
like a half a tank or whatever. And then they
meet and then they have a battle. What do we
all just watch the video at the end and say,
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huh we won or hung we lost?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And then it boils down to manufacturing capability, Oh against China?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
What like their army beats your army and then they say,
so do you want a super peace or what? Because
we just defeated your army.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Well, once we defeat all your machines, we're going to
come for your humans. So you got to just smash
up machines until everybody runs out of them, or one
side or the other runs out of them. Then we
say all right, we're coming for your people. Next you say,
all right, all right, uncle, we can't manufacture fast enough
to keep up with you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Wow, that'll be something to watch. We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Authorities in France have arrested a man three days after
you escape from prison by hiding in a cellmates laundry
bag the day he was released. And now the question
is how do you punish someone who voluntarily got into
a French prisoner's dirty laundry.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I just learned about birdhands, and now that I've heard
of it, I'm going to see it all the time.
All of the mostly white, over educated women who do
those videos that they put out where they sit in
their car and lecture you about various things. Yeah, they
almost all do this birdhand thing. The problem today is
(31:55):
you have got to find a way to do this thing.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
With their fingers and right like they're flapping wings almost.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't know what it is exactly, I don't know
who started. It's funny how mannerisms catch on. I mean,
you're just you know, like the way people hold guitars
got started a long time ago, and everybody does it.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
It's just whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But because my daughter, my twenty five year old daughter,
who she does this for comedic effect. But I'll like
make some ridiculous suggesting, She'll say, and I'm doing it
in rhythm with my words because this is the radio.
We're not doing that for some reason that I don't
(32:36):
know what it is. Originally I guess it was keep
your mouth shut. You're doing this thing with your hands.
It's like keep your mouth shut on talking.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I'm tired of hearing this.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
They use my hands for it.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It's so perfect.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Because it's so lame, I could have had a hit
in nineteen seventy three. Here's your host for final thoughts,
Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
How about a final thought from everybody on the CRUD
to wrapp up the show. There is our technical director
to lead us off, Michaeligelow.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Final thought.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, So, thirtieth anniversary of Amazon. I remember I was
twenty years old and I had a choice in stocks
between Sears and BlackBerry and Amazon and Apple, and I
chose the wrong two. Oh no, and yeah, my life
might have been that frankl Yeah, your life could have
been so different if you had invested in sees.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, Katie green Arstein to muse woman has a final thought.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Katie, So I just changed it to birdhand so it's
more of.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Like a like an attitude thing. Okay, you do it
when you're getting irritated.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
A lot of girls do, and they click their nails down.
You're right, the clicking the nails together. I've heard of
that one.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Lord save me from this.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Jack a final thought that lame music reminded me. Sometimes
I'll be scrolling stuff, trying to play something when I'm
driving the kids, and I'll say, this was the number
one song in the country when I was eight, and
I'll play something. It's just so horrifying. It's hard for
me to believe, impossible for them to believe it was
you know, Billy Don't be a Hero? Look it up?
Was ever a popular song?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah? Yeah? Wow. My final thought is, and we can
do a many poll if you want. I swear this
is true. I'm not trying to be funny or I
aren'tronic or anything.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
My batting average, my percentage of getting it right when
I put a USB chord into a jack is one
out of three at best.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, I had a h A person with a PhD
in understanding that sort of thing explained to me why
we feel that way. It's an illusion, but it's it's
amazing because we all feel that way.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Your face is an illusion.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Armstrong in Getty Wrapiga but ere they're grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
No, it's not an lose, so many people think.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
So a little time good Armstrong in Geeddy dot com.
A lot of great clicks there for you, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
God bless America.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I'm strong and ghatget.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Behavior has been nothing short of but thuggist.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I don't think you go through that type of experience
in doing emerged change.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I expected more pathetic spectacle.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You're locking up my toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
What in the hell heck are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (35:12):
So let's go with a pine.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
God is a Republican. Take two? God is a Republican?
M Take three, Michael, how much tape do we have?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Probably want to check on that igh note. Thank you
all very much, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Shoe, Getty Armstrong and Getty, and he
Armstrong and Yetty. I'm Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm the founder of Amazon dot Com.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Three years ago came across the startling statistic that web
usage was growing at twenty three hundred percent a year.
So I decided I would try and find a business
plan that made sense in the context of that growth.
And I picked books as the first best product to
sell online, making a list of like twenty different products
that you might be able to sell, and books were
great as the first best because books are incredibly unusual
(00:49):
in one respect, and that is that there are more
items in the book category and there are items in
any other category by far.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Thirty years ago today and known, Jeff Bezos decides to
sell used books online and was mocked quite a bit
for a very long time for a stupid idea, and
is now the second richest person in the world and
Amazon dominates everything. Jeffrey and his wife has giant fake
(01:20):
lips and fake hoots.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Wow, that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
His business acumen is more interesting to me, and the
point he makes.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I was just looking at electric razers the other day
and being dizzied by the variety of features and different
products and stuff like that. But you know, any one
or two or one hundred of them are more or
less interchangeable.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Not books.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If I go for Moby Dick, please don't give me
the myth of the rational voter. A couple of books
mentioned in recent days. Yeah, you've got to have both
of those or all ten thousand of them. Anyway, it's
quite a story. Yeah, he was mocked for not making
a prom fit for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
A couple of news items real quick, before we get
into other stuff. Trump said behind closed doors to Republican
lawmakers he's going to fire Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chief,
because he refuses to lower interest rates. Trump is now
(02:24):
sitting in the Chinese restaurant that is the Oval Office.
He redecorated it. It looks like a Chinese restaurant, lots
of gold. Anyway, he's sitting in the Oval Office right now.
And he said, and I quote, highly unlikely he'll fire
(02:44):
fed chair. So he said, one thing behind closed door
is a different thing in public. So whatever wake me away.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
If the tariff driven inflation comes home to roost next
couple of months, the last thing they're going to want
to do is drop interest rates.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And absolutely right, Oh, the other news item I wanted
to mention voting today in the House, NPR PBS could
drastically lose funding like lots of their funding. You don't
like Elmo, No, I don't like the government my tax
money going to progressive news, not just like left leaning news.
(03:24):
Overly progressive represents ten percent of America news. That's what
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Indoctrination of both children and adults into far left attitudes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
On the other hand, I staunchly disagree with the defunding
the Voice of America. I think we just need to
rework that just express the ideas that we hold deer
around the world. I'm a big fan of the Voice
of America. But anyway, as e quibbled for another day
also coming up this hour, if we get to it,
I believe the masses of illegal farm workers will be
(03:57):
as necessary in a very short span of time as
importing lots of Chinese people are to build the railroad.
Right now, the world's going to change completely because of technology.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
More on that. That will fix that whole problem. Huh,
that's interesting, speed out of technology. GROC that's the world's
richest man, not second richest Bezos, but richest Elon Musk.
That's his AI project is Grok, and last week had
had a thing about it. What did Some claimed it
was Hitler and wanted to get rid of the Jews,
which you know is problematic NBC. Now you got to
(04:34):
keep in mind this is an NBC reviewer almost certainly
hates Elon Musk because of his association with Trump, so
it is probably predisposed to want to criticize Grok. So
I haven't tried it myself. Musk's Groc companions include a
flirty anime character and an anti religion panda. Okay, so
(04:56):
days after Grok and they're anti anti Semitism scandal rocked X,
Elon introduced two animated characters that try to pressure users
into sexually explicit or violent conversations, says this NBC reviewer.
And again, I might not agree with his take on
it if I actually used it myself. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And it could be that they all all of the
AI platforms have roughly the same flaws.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
If you used them that way, right if you decided
you wanted to jerk around the characters or the ai
groc is calling the character's companions. And so far there
are two companions that users can chat with, a flirty
Japanese anime character named Annie who offers to make users
lives sexier, and also a red pend and named bad Rudy,
(05:49):
who insults users with graphic or vulgar language and asks
him to join a gang with the goal of creating chaos.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Wow Wow, I remember as a kid watching antireligious penned
cartoons on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Worst cartoon ever.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Bad Rudy. In videos posted on x and in conversations
with NBC News, bad Rudy said it wanted to carry
out a variety of violent schemes, from stealing a yacht
off a California peer to overthrowing the pope. Bad Rudy
has told users in various encounters that it wanted to
crash weddings, bomb banks, replace Baby's formula with whiskey, kill billionaires,
(06:27):
and spike of town's water supply with hot sauce and glitter.
It also said that it takes inspiration from a prominent
Russian born anarchists and violent revolutionary am a Goldman. Now,
so what I don't know about this is did you
lead this AI down the like do you think I
should give my put whiskey in my baby's formula? And
(06:47):
Grox said yes for whatever reason, trying to be funny,
and then they reported it as like it suggested that
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, often you have to work pretty hard to quote
unquote jail break these things from the limitations that are
built into them.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
But I don't know, right, and then when you get
them to do something like that, you re, yeah, I
don't know. I don't know what either, Annie. That's the
sexual one is graphic in a different way. Wearing a
revealing dress, it strips to its underwear if a user
flirts with it enough. According to videos of interactions posted
on x, the two animated characters respond to voice commands
(07:21):
and questions. As a answer the questions, their lips move
and they make realistic gestures. Well, if you have a
flirty character and it strips down if you ask it
to what is that a knock on Elon's I mean
that is going to happen. That is going to be
like one of the most common things in AI right.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
In fact, it's so mundane and obvious to be not
even worth discussing.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You got a cartoon that strips down to its underwear?
Are you familiar with the world of porn?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, kidding.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
By the way, pervs in the news coming up, stay
with us.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The graphic nature of the companion makes Grock an outlier
amongst the most popular AI chatbots, this NBC critic says,
and it shows how Musk continues to push AI chatbots
in an extreme direction. Now this is classic NBC News
hates elon sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Here.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The National Center on on Sexual Exploitation and Anti Pornography
and Anti sexual Exploitation nonprofit on Tuesday called on ai
X to remove their anti chatbot, saying in a statement
that the character was childlike and promoted high risk sexual behavior. Again,
are you familiar with the internet and the promoting of
high risk sexual behavior? It's like ninety percent of the
(08:37):
traffic on the Internet. Like literally, really, I.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Have sympathy with these folks.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, I hate it too. I wish it didn't exist
at all. If there was a way to get rid
of it. I'd vote for it today, but it exists,
and I don't think you're going to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, you know, that's an awfully good lead into
something I was going to talk about.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
To take a break first.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh my god. There, we're already doomed with the amount
of entertainment and engagement we get from our phones just
from scrolling through the written word. When all this AI
stuff gets up and running in these various characters. Good luck,
you're getting your kid to go to the woods on
vacation and enjoy camping. Yeah, yeah, no kidding, all right,
(09:27):
we got all that stuff Joe mentioned, and other stuff
on the way. Trump continues today, as he does his
never ending press conferences, to blast those of you who
believe in the whole Epstein thing as idiots, crazies people.
He doesn't want your support anymore. A heck of an
(09:50):
interesting idea. Anyway, We've got more on that coming up.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Wow wow, Yeah, so perverts in the news.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It is my belief that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The AI and or the Internet is the apple from
the tree of knowledge that the Book of Genesis discusses,
and it will undo mankind. But having said that, there
are a couple of really interesting aspects to the online
PERV world. First of all, you've got these new defy
(10:21):
websites where you can upload an image of a woman
or a girl in your life and they will return
to you an extremely realistic that person naked picture a
variety of poses and or act.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I should try that on myself to see how realistic
it is. Does it make? Is it more flattering or
less flattering?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's what I would like to know.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And according to a recent study, there are at least
eighty five new defy or undressed web websites doing significant traffic,
and the findings say the websites had a combined average
of eighteen and a half million visitors for each month
of the past six months and collectively could be making
(11:06):
up to thirty six million dollars per year.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'll bet you within five years you can have that
on your phone if you want to. Yeah, and probably
easily anytime of day take a picture of someone and
then see them naked if you want. That's just gonna
be part of life. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We've talked about this a bit before, but the folks
at wired dot com are writing about this, and because
every news story is an editorial these days, and they say,
despite lawmakers and tech companies taking steps to limit the
harmful services blah blah blah, non consensual and abusive images
of women and girls. And I would tend to agree
(11:46):
that it is non consensual certainly, and abusive in a way.
But it is so impossible to stop, I mean, because
see people from publishing them, but to own privately. There
is no way to square that with the First Amendment anyway.
This is why it's going to ruin mankind. But here's
(12:06):
the more sickening and intriguing question that I have. And
I do not have an opinion on this. I promised
I had a take that would ender our careers, but
I just have a question. The Internet Watch Foundation, who
looks into the sort of thing, has sounded the arm
over a dramatic increase in AI generated videos depicting child
(12:27):
sexual abuse, with the majority falling into the worst category
of abuse, essentially hardcore sexual abuse of children. It makes
me second sad to put it into words.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I have a feeling. I know what your big question
is going to be on this.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The Guardian reports, for instance, that the proliferation of AI
generated child sexual abuse materials, commonly known as child phronography,
has reached unprecedented levels. The UK based Internet Safety Watchdog
reports a staggering sir and ai made videos featuring child
sex abuse, with about thirteen hundred videos verified in the
first half of this year alone, compared to two in
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the same period last year.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, in five years, it'll be twenty million.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right right, Well, all right, here's here are the the
two questions, one fairly obvious and one discussed and one
that I haven't heard anybody bring up. And again, I
don't have a stance on this. It's just something I'm
wondering about. Number one, and you've heard this discussion before,
is can you make the same arguments you make about
(13:38):
quote unquote real childborn that make it, that justify making
it such a horrendous crime, that being it's impossible to
produce it without the most horrific exploitation of a child,
just unquestionable child abuse. If it's entirely computer generated and
(13:59):
there's no real kid involved, where does that put us
legally speaking? Is it still repugnant and sick?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yes? But where does that leave us legally? And then one.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Question that popped into my head, I'll ask it like this.
Obviously this is a leading question, but Jack, I will
pose it to you. Has the ubiquity of hardcore adult
porn led to more people fornicating or even getting together
(14:37):
with a partner or fewer.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Absolutely fewer, one hundred percent by all studies.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Right, So my question is, obviously, would the existence of
this stuff, and the argument would be in which no
actual children are harmed in the making of it, would
it lead to more child sexual abuse because more people
have access to it and might get turned on by it,
(15:04):
or will it be the less because you know, if
you're into it, you'll just stick with the porn. I
don't know, sickening either way.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, obviously I think it's a you're either built that
way or not. I don't know that. I don't know
if anybody knows that, but I can't believe it. It's
something that you could like become interested in. Your brain's
either broken that way or to non I think, but
anyway to.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That first part of it, Although the only argument I'd
make against that is there's a lot of like porn
that has themes of violence against women or exploitation of
women as opposed to what sex is supposed to be
which is and do it, you know, however you want
mutually satisfying.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Everybody can sense and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And people can get led down the road of liking
more and more like sick porn that could include to underage,
you know, sexual partner.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The first part, though, seems to be quite well documented
as true. If you can get I don't know, half
the satisfaction, thirty percent of the satisfaction, two thirds of
the satisfaction, I don't know what you would call, you know,
pleasuring yourself to porn that you would get from sex
(16:25):
with an actual girl. And it's enough, And this absolutely
seems to be the case to make it so, you
know what, I'm not going to leave my apartment tonight
and go out and maybe meet a real woman. I'm good.
It seems to be the case. So that makes an
argument for that other part. Then you mentioned no effort,
no risk.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Again, I'm not advocating for it clearly, because you know,
I and humanity needs to think of a hell of
a lot more about it before you know, coming to
that sort of conclusion.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I'm just wondering, just thinking out loud.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Is Trump bad mouthing some of his most ardent supporters. Yes,
it doesn't seem to be worried about it. So he's
done it several times already. Today we got a little
more coming up. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Art and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Just Sart. A song and a commercial reminded me so
when I dropped my son off at boy Scout camp
the other day at this lake, and they were gonna
have to hike to their destinations a couple of mile hike.
You have to take everything in with you, so try
to pack as lightly as possible. Blah blah blah blah.
Drop them off there. I load everybody up, and this
one kid brought a guitar in the Boy Scout.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Leader.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
One of them said, you sure you want to carry
that thing for a couple of miles. I said, yeah, yeah,
I really want to bring it. You know, if you've
ever camped having a guitar around, if your guitar player
is really cool and you can sing songs, all that
sort of stuff. Anyway, we stopped for lunch. It's a
couple hour drive to this lake, and we stopped for
lunch at this little pullout and he gets his guitar
out and sets up a little thing and he's like
thirteen years old, and he sets up a little chair
(18:01):
and he's sitting there on a log and he starts
in playing. And if I would have bet you ten
thousand dollars one hundred thousand million dollars, that wasn't gonna
hear what came out of his mouth as a thirteen
year old boy. Because I'm just wondering, you know, what's
a thirteen year old boy gonna play. He sits down
with his guitar. First of all, he's got an incredibly
low voice, and he says, I met her accidentally in
Saint Paul, Minnesota. He launches into a Johnny Cash song. Immediately,
(18:26):
I'm like what what man. One of the other leaders
was like, unbelievable. I would have never guessed that this
is what was gonna happen. Huh. He did several Johnny
Cash songs and then put his guitar away. I'll be dag,
I know, and he played better than me, which is
highly disappointing.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Oh that's so annoying, very very annoying.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You might be annoyed if you're really into the whole
pedo ring story. That is the reason a chunk of
you voted for Donald Trump. Some of you don't even
know what I'm talking about, because I only know because
I happen to know a couple of people that are
really into this story. Their big thing was, I mean,
(19:09):
they were all tweeting and texting each other leading up
to election day and Inauguration day. Finally it comes to
an end. They're all going to be exposed. The Clintons,
the Hollywood types, everybody who's been trafficking all these children
for sex all these years are going to get nailed
to the wall. And it's all tied in with Epstein
(19:31):
and he's a massad agent and blackmail and all these
different sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Right, it's a form.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Of the Q and on or more like the Pizzagate thing,
just evolving, continuing to evolve, because that's the nature of
these things.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And you might be disappointed if you're in that crowd
that Trump has come out so hardcore against you today
with truth social posts and a couple of different on
mic things denouncing you and saying he doesn't need your
vote anymore. Here's the very latest from the Oval Office.
He said this was all hooks. As your attorney general,
I told you this was a hoax. What evidence, no
(20:02):
it's not the Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Now I know it's a hoax. It's started by Democrats.
It's been run by the Democrats for four years.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You had Christopher Ray.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
And these characters in Kobe before him, and it's a
bad group.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
It started.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Actually, look at the Steele dossier that turned out to
be a total hoax.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The fifty one agents.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
The intelligence so called intelligence agents was a hoax. It's
all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats,
and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the
net and so they try and do the democrats work.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I call it the Epstein hoax.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
The sad part is it's people that are really doing
the Democrats work.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
There's stupid people. Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
The most energetic Trump supporters I know would be that
group of stupid Republicans that fell into the net doing
the work of the Democrats he just talked about, because
they believe that story that your Attorney General and FBI
director and others were pushing for quite some time. It
(21:07):
wasn't democrats. I don't remember Democrats ever pushing this child
sex ring thing.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
No, And they're now doing the work of the Democrats.
By undermining the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
He's saying, right, but how does it tie in with
Komy and Russia GAT and all that sort of stuff. Well,
it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's not a great comparison. I mean, they're both false
and both you know, had just enough tidbit of evidence here,
evidence there that you could spin the yarn if your
James call me that, Yes, Trump is a secret Russian stooge.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
So you hear the phrase in politics sometimes about when
Bill Clinton denounced a rapper that kind of went against
his own party Sister Soldier moment. People call about it
and and it helped him bring people into support him
(22:09):
from the other side.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is like, well he was, he was proving I'm
not Look, I'm left, but I'm not way out there right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
I'm willing to denounce the crazies in my party.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Is this Trump's Sister Soldier moment?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, except that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The Epstein thing is so under the radar of the vast,
vast majority of people, whereas like rap and violent imagery
and anti American imagery, and in the case of Sister Soldier,
I think it was anti cop imagery.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
That's everybody's aware of that that's like a hot top.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
This is so I mean, he's denouncing them so strongly.
It would be like, if, you know, assuming Biden wasn't
a mental patient, if Biden had come out and said, look,
these college students marching a reminder, Kamala was the actual candidate,
so use Kamala. Okay, If Kamala had come out and said,
(23:10):
these college students are crazy, They've fallen for a hoax
that Israel is perpetuating a genocide. I don't want their support.
They're nuts. I mean, it's that level of your biggest supporter,
your biggest supporters, you're calling crazies, your most passionate supporters.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, it's notable. And you know what's
funny is I think the criticism of Pam Bondi and
Cash Betellent Company is legitimate. Having led people way down
the garden path of the idea that there's something here
and we're getting to the bottom of it, just to
(23:52):
exploit them and keep them listening and watching them whatever,
and then just saying I've looked at the file and
there's nothing there, so we're fine here and thinking that's
gonna be good enough.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
It's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You don't understand how the way human beings behave you
needed to do better than that and explain why having
promoted the idea for the longest time, or in the
case of Pam BONDI freaking specifically said you had the
client list on your.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Desk, you gotta do better.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Do you think she needs to step down? Or will
a lot of people say that.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I don't know. It's so hard to say.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Within Trump world, it's entirely possible.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, but anyway, I was working toward a point.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh, that's absolutely I think they mishandled that they had
to do better. On the other hand, I have no
idea why Donald J would be so harsh. He doesn't
need a sister soldier. Moment he's in office, he can't
run again. He's just doesn't care who he hurts and
(24:56):
bruises with his words. It seems to me like he
would have and better off of he went with. Look,
I wasn't paying attention to the Epstein thing. Really, you know,
throw Bondie and patell or whoever you want under the bus.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You know, they were pushing this. I heard what they said,
and I thought, wow, that's interesting. But I wasn't really
paying attention to it. It turns out there's nothing to it. Yeah,
they probably.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Went too far, folks, And now they've seen the actual
facts and they realized there was really nothing there. So
they you know, they owe you an apology, being as
enthusiastic as they were.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well they didn't have the facts.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Go if they owe you know, apology as opposed to
your crazy, and I don't want your support anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And stupid stupid crazy is one thing, stupid is another.
You hate to be both. Yeah, it's it's just it's
bad politics. But nah, you can do whatever he wants.
That much is clear.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Okay, Well that's that story.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I keep thinking this is over that dang story.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Interested in watching humans and just the psychological, social, political
aspects of this.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I have no interest in the story itself really because
I've I've learned everything I need to learn.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I think about it. But right, well, the way people
behave is so interesting.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
That's exactly what I thought it was. I assumed all
along they were saying this to get ratings and or
get votes, and there was nothing to it but change
a topic. I just wanted to get this story on
it's a story about China and what they're doing around AI.
And now Trump gave the go ahead from Navidio to
continue to sell the very best AI chips to China.
(26:41):
I'm not exactually sure what that's all about. I haven't
looked into it. But Chinese government they're working on AI too,
let's hear it.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
This whole robotic push comes at a time when the
Chinese government is making technology, including AI, a national priority. Already,
China's proven innovator, as we've seen with evs. Now it's
looking to dominate the field of AI enabled robots, and
the gap with the US is widening.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
According to Morgan Stanley Research.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
China is really pushing the envelope in all things leading
edge technology. And there are so many practical and also
strategic applications of AI and robotics combined.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Now, you said you saw the video of the Chinese
robot soldiers, and it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Was it was not Chinese, it was they were are
they're the good guy soldier knots.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
But they're pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Oh, it's just crazy impressive.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
There will be a human being on a battlefield in
ten years.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
On CNN, I saw a thing about China's particular robot armies,
robot dogs, robot soldiers, robot they're actually they're presenting it
all as robot athletes, which is pretty clever. Yeah, we
just want to have the best robot athletes up there.
They're really strong and fast and could jump high and
run fast and have guns, and then we'll have guns
and they'll go from being athletes to being very athletic soldiers.
(28:08):
But they were damned impressive and it reminded me of
and I keep mentioning this book, but I'm reading this
listening to this book about the end of World War
II in the Pacific. We were just dominating the Japanese
in that last year of the war before we finally won,
because we just had better technology. Our technology was so
much better than what they had. We're just literally blowing
(28:32):
them out of the water. But they couldn't. Our planes
could fly circles around their planes. Our intelligence was so
much better, our radars ability to reach out further than
they could. They wouldn't know where our fleet was, and
we'd show up because they knew where they were, and
blah blah blah, blah blah blah. That's how you win.
I mean, you can care about your country and be
a patriot, and that that matters. See Ukraine. But the
(28:52):
main reason Ukraine's doing so well is their innovation and
their technology. And if China ends up, you know, with
way ahead of us, like this person suggested an AI,
that's gonna be a problem. We defeated the Japanese so soundly.
Not because we're a better well, it is because we're
a better sent but not because we're better people or
more honorable or ethical. It's because we we had the
(29:14):
better technology to win the war, right, right, And I
hope China doesn't have that that report, man, it sounds
like they do, right.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Sometimes you just have the edge temporarily. But yeah, yeah,
plenty of awful regimes have gotten over because they had
better war making tools. Yeah, we need to at least
be fighting them to a draw. In the AI stuff,
I mean, it is so obviously the future of warfare
it seems silly to even point it out anymore. But
you're gonna have unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned aquatic vehicles, unmanned
(29:45):
men in the field, just and practically nothing but that
it relates directly that farm story.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I was excited to get into. Maybe we can do
it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But there's not going to be a damn person in
your local farm field never mind, and dozens of people
who oddly have no immigration paperwork. Please, that's going to
be as yesterday's ville. As as I said earlier, importing
a bunch of Chinese people to build the railroad, it'll
be a historical curiosity.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
And soon, well if you had a bunch of column
Ai soldiers robot soldiers, but they're various kinds of drones early,
I suppose, and then you get a big battle and
the true drone armies meet, and then some of them
are here, some on the ground, some of them look
like dogs, some look like people, some of them look
like a half a tank or whatever. And then they
meet and then they have a battle. What do we
all just watch the video at the end and say,
(30:32):
huh we won or hung we lost?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And then it boils down to manufacturing capability, Oh against China?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
What like their army beats your army and then they say,
so do you want a super peace or what? Because
we just defeated your army.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Well, once we defeat all your machines, we're going to
come for your humans. So you got to just smash
up machines until everybody runs out of them, or one
side or the other runs out of them. Then we
say all right, we're coming for your people. Next you say,
all right, all right, uncle, we can't manufacture fast enough
to keep up with you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Wow, that'll be something to watch. We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Authorities in France have arrested a man three days after
you escape from prison by hiding in a cellmates laundry
bag the day he was released. And now the question
is how do you punish someone who voluntarily got into
a French prisoner's dirty laundry.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I just learned about birdhands, and now that I've heard
of it, I'm going to see it all the time.
All of the mostly white, over educated women who do
those videos that they put out where they sit in
their car and lecture you about various things. Yeah, they
almost all do this birdhand thing. The problem today is
(31:55):
you have got to find a way to do this thing.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
With their fingers and right like they're flapping wings almost.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't know what it is exactly, I don't know
who started. It's funny how mannerisms catch on. I mean,
you're just you know, like the way people hold guitars
got started a long time ago, and everybody does it.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
It's just whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But because my daughter, my twenty five year old daughter,
who she does this for comedic effect. But I'll like
make some ridiculous suggesting, She'll say, and I'm doing it
in rhythm with my words because this is the radio.
We're not doing that for some reason that I don't
(32:36):
know what it is. Originally I guess it was keep
your mouth shut. You're doing this thing with your hands.
It's like keep your mouth shut on talking.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I'm tired of hearing this.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
They use my hands for it.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It's so perfect.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Because it's so lame, I could have had a hit
in nineteen seventy three. Here's your host for final thoughts,
Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
How about a final thought from everybody on the CRUD
to wrapp up the show. There is our technical director
to lead us off, Michaeligelow.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Final thought.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, So, thirtieth anniversary of Amazon. I remember I was
twenty years old and I had a choice in stocks
between Sears and BlackBerry and Amazon and Apple, and I
chose the wrong two. Oh no, and yeah, my life
might have been that frankl Yeah, your life could have
been so different if you had invested in sees.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, Katie green Arstein to muse woman has a final thought.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Katie, So I just changed it to birdhand so it's
more of.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Like a like an attitude thing. Okay, you do it
when you're getting irritated.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
A lot of girls do, and they click their nails down.
You're right, the clicking the nails together. I've heard of
that one.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Lord save me from this.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Jack a final thought that lame music reminded me. Sometimes
I'll be scrolling stuff, trying to play something when I'm
driving the kids, and I'll say, this was the number
one song in the country when I was eight, and
I'll play something. It's just so horrifying. It's hard for
me to believe, impossible for them to believe it was
you know, Billy Don't be a Hero? Look it up?
Was ever a popular song?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah? Yeah? Wow. My final thought is, and we can
do a many poll if you want. I swear this
is true. I'm not trying to be funny or I
aren'tronic or anything.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
My batting average, my percentage of getting it right when
I put a USB chord into a jack is one
out of three at best.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, I had a h A person with a PhD
in understanding that sort of thing explained to me why
we feel that way. It's an illusion, but it's it's
amazing because we all feel that way.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Your face is an illusion.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Armstrong in Getty Wrapiga but ere they're grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
No, it's not an lose, so many people think.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
So a little time good Armstrong in Geeddy dot com.
A lot of great clicks there for you, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
God bless America.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I'm strong and ghatget.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Behavior has been nothing short of but thuggist.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I don't think you go through that type of experience
in doing emerged change.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I expected more pathetic spectacle.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You're locking up my toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
What in the hell heck are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (35:12):
So let's go with a pine.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
God is a Republican. Take two? God is a Republican?
M Take three, Michael, how much tape do we have?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Probably want to check on that igh note. Thank you
all very much, Armstrong and Getty
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