August 17, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour Two of A&G features...
- The ease at which Jack was able to get GLP-1 drugs...
- The death of British academic, Jason Arday...
- the long deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln...
- The first day of high school for Jack's son!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The airport duty free store has to come right out
and say it.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
You think we smell? What other explanation is there?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Your store carries two things, cologne and liquor. Who buys
cologne at the airport?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I just come home wearing a sign that says, honey,
I'm having an affair. And if I'm going to spend
fifty dollars on a bottle of something at the airport,
it's going to be water.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, it's pretty joke.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
So I was thinking while I was on vacation, the
idea of talking about things on the radio that are
actually relevant to people's lives as much as possible, which
has always been the goal. But I think it's easy
as a talk show host to get sucked into the
world of cable news or podcasts or whatever and think
(01:20):
that that's what people are talking about, and it's not
necessarily accurate, certainly not definitely not accurate when it comes
to cable news programs. Here is something that lots of
people are talking about statistically true and just I know
in my everyday life is the GLP one drugs that
have exploded on the scene over the last couple of years.
And now I'm pretty sure I was trying to look
(01:41):
up the statistic again. Ian Bremer had them out. Almost
everybody in America has heard about the GOLP one drugs
and is aware of them and what they do, and
already one out of ten people are on them, and
they think within two years it's going to be like
thirty percent of people are on the drugs.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So you've you've.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Obviously heard about them. A quick, easy drug not too
expensive that you can take and you lose weight pretty easily.
And I know, like, how many people do you know, Joe,
that that that that are on them? I think I
know six eight people in my own life that have
taken this part to me, but it's a handful, yeah, Michael, No,
(02:25):
Michael's talking off.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
So I thought I thought I was going to look
into it. I thought, I'm going to look into it
for me to take one of these gop one drugs
and see if I could lose the last ten pounds
I want to lose. And I thought I'll probably get
shut down on this. How long do you think it
took me from the thought of I should look into
(02:51):
this to what I was injecting myself with zep bound.
How long do you think the time period was between?
And I mean the first glimmer was I should look
into that. Maybe I could lose that last ten pounds too.
I'm actually injecting myself with zep bound.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Wow, well you've closed the deal. Obviously. I have no idea.
I don't know what I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I guess I haven't done the math completely. Fifteen hours.
That's how easy.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
That's how easy it is to get on these drugs.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Did you message your doctor or something like that, or
I messaged a doctor.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I didn't message my doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Similar to my story about, you know, using testosterone, there's
all kinds of doctors out there, and uh, I assume
they're actual doctors. I don't look at their diploma. I
don't have any reason to believe that they're not actual doctors.
But I'm amazed at how many people go to medical
school and everything that's involved, then go work for one
of these companies where you do a uh, you know,
(03:48):
within hours of somebody showing any interest zoom video call,
astro rubber stamp.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
That's what you do for well for yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
That's my point is that why you would go to
medical school. It seems like you had loftier goals when
you first went to medical school then a gay, Well,
every medical class has a bottom ten percent jack and
you think just interacted with them.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Anyway, So I do a chat GPT about my height
and weight and age and physical level, and you know,
do you think I could get one? And I said,
sure you could. And I said which one do you
think would be best? And I said this one and so.
And then I go to a website I or chat
GPT recommended me a couple, so then I click on
(04:37):
that I go to it.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I had a little questionnaire like that's like five questions long,
make an appointment for just a couple of hours later,
I'm on a zoom call with a with a doctor,
and I thought they were going to be relatively more
skeptical as to why a guy I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Need to really lose weight.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'm if I actually lose the last ten pounds I've got,
I think I'm gonna look like a skeleton. But anyway
if I'm not who the drug was developed for originally.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Certainly anyway, whatsoever, and.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
But anyway, she asked me like two questions, the main
one being do you own a credit card?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And uh, that's a sign.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
So and so I say share and they say, okay,
we'll start you on the lowest dose.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Which pharmacy would you like to use? That's within like.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Two minutes of the phone call. Say okay, I tell
you my pharmacy. I go back online, I put in
my credit card information. I get a ding on my phone.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Like a couple hours later, we got your order. Then
a few hours later, I get the ding.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's filled. I drive to the slowest part in this
was me getting around to drive into the pharmacy, Drive
down to the pharmacy, pick up the drug, come home,
bingo bambo, read the instructions. I'm on it, and I'll
see how it goes today. And it starts working right away,
So it'll be interesting to see today what that does
to mine desire to eat.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Wow. Wow, Wow, I'm sorely tempted. Yeah, why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, you're worried about the explosive diary.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh no, I already got that Oh my god, I
got the booby lettuce, I said, but I like the
taste of it, so I keep eating it. No, it's
a it's a little complicated family dynamics. But yeah, wow interesting.
And like I said, I'm seeing my doc tomorrow, gonna
look at the book.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You canna go to a real doctor. That's gonna slow
you down.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
They're gonna have all kinds of reasons why you shouldn't
got an appointment. They're gonna have all kinds of reasons
why you shouldn't be doing experiments on your bodies. I'm
all about the experiments on my body with kind of
doctors on zoom calls.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To talk to me.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Happen exactly?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What's the worst that could happen?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So that's why I am happy to prescribe you magic mushrooms.
Well I was calling about the weight loss stuff. Oh yeah,
that's that's what I meant, the wait loss stuff. Yes,
it's interested in some viagra. No, I'm fine, all right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
So we'll get that testosterone write out to you. No, no, no, no, no, no,
the weight loss Yes, I'm sorry I keep getting you
mixed up with any of my other very important clients.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Order two questionable drugs and we'll give you twenty percent
off as long as I got my rubber stamp out.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I don't want to get the company in trouble because
you know whatever. But I know what I'm getting into.
But I find that hilarious. I mean, wasn't your thinking
on this that you had to have a certain amount
of weight you need to lose or some sort of medical.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Complications or or something before you qualified for this stuff,
as opposed.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
To basically I want that, and them saying can you
pay for it?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And me saying yeah, and them saying, okay.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
That was the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
All right, mister Trump, here's your everyman question. So you're
paying for it? How expensive is it?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Two hundred and eighty dollars a month?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh that's way less than we heard it first, right,
those Trumps.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That's either a lot to you or it's not, depending
on your life situation. There are times when my life
when that wud have been in no way. But you know,
with them inflation where it is now, I honestly, if
I ate much less could pay for it. Just don't
eating less wow with what it costs him, because I
eat out a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Anyway. Yeah, so that's not very expensive.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
And if you if you've been thinking about it and like,
what would it be like to look into it or
how hard would it be? I'm telling you, by tomorrow
you could be on the drug if you want.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
To be right, it's effortless.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Kind of hilarious, I think, or horrible for.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The country, although it's not like again, it's not like
you're you're taking something weird and experimental. I talked to
my doctor once about it. He said, all my patients
are tolerating it great, they're doing great.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
So if you want it, let me know.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Right, But I just I thought it was for more
extreme cases or maybe we're all ready to the point of, hey,
if you want to lose that last five pounds, go
ahead try it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, it was at first, but then increasingly, and any
insurance company that's not hit to this at this point
is just bad at their business.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But it's there's just no downside.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There's so much upside to losing weight and being lighter
and healthier unless fat in the belly.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Just if you don't know this stuff already, I'm not
gonna bother informing you because you gotta know, but I
just think there's no reason to hold back. They haven't
come up with any Oh, you know, half of people
who are left arm falls off, or you know, they
lose sight in their eyes.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
But other than that, it works, right, A.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Third of people go blind, painfully blind. Oh Lord, But any.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Way, I will.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I will report back tomorrow what it's like, because it's
supposed to really hit you hard right away, so I'll
be kind of interested today if I if I notice
to a great extent.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I haven't thought about eating it all all day long
or something. Right now, When did you take your first jab?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay, it should have started already, and you only jab?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
How often do you get?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Once a month, same day, every month?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
How was it? Did it hurt? Did bother you?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
No, there was nothing to it whatsoever, like Katie re
ordered a couple of weeks ago. Was no feeling whatsoever.
It was hard.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
When I get out of a chair, it hurts. So yeah,
I'm not that worried about it.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
It reminds me of the old guy who heard the
other day who said I don't do sit ups anymore.
I do get ups, Get out of my chair, get
up out of this chair. That's good, Okay. We got
a lot more on the way, including that crazy, crazy
Hassan Piker in some of the things he said, in
case you haven't quite caught on to what his act
is yet, among other things.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Stay here, they said. Tragedy.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
They said tragedy on so many levels, but particularly just
for everybody who knew Jason, his family, obviously his friends.
We think think of them today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
The Left is trying desperately not to draw the right
lessons from the life, career and death a professor Jason
are Day at Cambridge. Perhaps you heard over the weekend
that this Youngish man who was of the eber mix
Kindy School of Racial Relations in Sociology killed himself.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
More or so, it would seem.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He built a completely fictional autobiography that was easily picked apart.
Virtually every single aspect of his amazing story was easily checkable,
and nobody at Cambridge checked because they were so desperate
to have diversity and to be able to tout this
(11:41):
token on steroids, Jason R.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Day.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Because he was young and handsome and articulate, and he
was just he was a good bauble to shake out
there and to say, look, we're diverse, We're diverse, and
so his not only was his biography built on lies
and outlandish, ridiculous lies, ridiculous lies that I mean, for instance,
(12:05):
he claimed to have been autistic and didn't speak at
all till he was eleven, didn't read till he was eighteen,
but then turned it all around, became a super genius
and a PhD. And virtually everybody in the field of
autism says, there's never been a.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Case like that. That just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I mean, for instance, and his claims about dozens of
marathons and the rest of it. There are documents of
this stuff, and Cambridge didn't even look and then elevated him,
lauded him, celebrated him, and turned a blind eye to
all of the truths that are now so easily discerned.
(12:42):
Here's a BBC report. Here's the head of the Faculty
of Education at Cambridge, professor Hillary Kremen, who was chatting
with him on the bebe And in case it goes
by too quickly, the late mister r asks her, what
do you think about the accusations of tokenism, Like you're
(13:04):
just hiring me as a token.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
And now Jason is days away from achieving another ambition.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
So good to see you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Here's his new boss at Cambridge.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
We do have a lot of work to do, but
I feel really optimistic.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
There will be doing.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I think this is a tokenistic appointment. What are your
thoughts on this?
Speaker 7 (13:24):
The Board of electors on your interview day were absolutely unanimous.
We are so lucky to have you. You are the
best in the world in terms of the research that
you do.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
An extraordinary journey.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
But for Jason, this is not an end, it's a beginning.
The reaction has been amazing. The of the sequenusness of
that administrator, it's just unbelievable. And then they this guy up.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And then when it was nearly effortlessly discovered that his
so called research was almost entirely plagiarized and phony. And
I've got an account from one of his students who
says he never taught anything. His classes were the biggest
waste of time I've ever seen. She says he would
sit there at his desk and talk about racism, but
(14:22):
not cite any data or studies, or not ask us
to teach anything. And often he would show up late
and depart early. And it was the strangest, most useless
class I've ever taken in my life. And she says,
when I finally saw the headlines about this, the firing,
not the suicide, but the firing, she said, finally, it
(14:42):
was that obvious to anybody who spent a minute looking
into this. The headline in the New York Times, which
of course must massage it's loyal progressive readers, the headline
is Professor's death leaves behind hard questions for Cambridge on
race and hiring. They admit the school ignored a series
(15:07):
of warnings about his life history and work. You know,
it's funny New York Times. I don't think it leaves
behind hard questions at all. It leaves behind serious questions,
but very very easy questions to answer. Here you have
a desperation to quote unquote diversify. You throw aside merit.
And remember when the administrator Ms Kremen, who is just
(15:31):
I mean, she was doing everything but lifting up her
skirt for this guy, gushing about how the review committee
was unanimous.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Your work is amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
His work was crap.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And there were three other scholars interviewed, all of whom
have better credentials. Two of them, curiously were black women.
I'm not sure why it went the way it went.
Maybe they weren't as perfect a token as mister r.
Day was, but they gave him the gig at any rate,
so they threw away merit. They elevated a plagiarizing fabuloust
who didn't teach, He didn't really do research. He was
(16:07):
a complete fraud and phony, and he became one of
the most lauded figures in academia in Great Britain and
in the US, where people were acutely aware of him.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
We don't operate in those circles, so you might not
be aware of that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But so here's what another professor says, Professor Khindi Andrews
about the situation.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This has been going on to him for three and
a half years. As soon as he became professor at Cambridge.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
There were those people who didn't believe that there should
be a black person in that role.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know what I meant to have in front of me,
ebermex Kendy's quote, I mean that phony race baiting con man.
But he tweeted, essentially, our day was sacrificed on the
altar of racism. Racists went after him from the minute
he was nominated because he was black.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And now they've killed him.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You are either mentally ill if you that, or you
are a dedicated revolutionary and you can't ever admit when
you get caught what you were up to and what
you're doing. It's one thing or the other. There are
only those two choices for people who still defend this guy.
You know, you can't get less racism with more racism.
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I say we cut it out completely, stick.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Around Armstrong and Getty. Lengthy deployment.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Military families raise alarms over the well being of sailors
on a Navy ship that has been at sea for.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Nearly nine months.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Martha radd it's there from ABC News. It's difficult to
know whether all the attention being paid to the USS
Link and the giant aircraft carrier there that's been deployed
for a very very long time. It's difficult to know
to what extent the concerns and complaints are sincere and
(17:56):
actual problems, and to what extent it's anti Trump media
attempting to gin up whatever avenue of discontent there is
over the situation in the golf And if I knew
it was one or the other, entirely I would say so,
but I don't. Deployment that long.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Is an issue. As we're about to hear.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
The deployment, primarily in the Middle East includes a record
length of consecutive days without a port call, more than
two hundred.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Go ahead, let's hear the next clip. I haven't stepped
off the ship in the year twenty twenty six. I
haven't been off there. I haven't been off the ship.
I haven't touched land.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's tough, is it?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
My first kid born in February, so I'm very excited
to get home.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Meeter, Yeah, that is that is rough.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The UH and the I think it was a Secretary
of Navy or the scent Coom commander visited the ship
and checked in, say, yeah, it's tough, and guys wish
they could go home and have a port call on
the rest of it, but we can't. War as hell,
which I think is probably about the appropriate response.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Here's Admiral Mike Mullen.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Historically we've been able to typically to go to a
port to take a break, do maintenance, and then come
back online, even back in Vietnam. The problem right now
is in the aor the places we would do that
by rain or in the United Air Memirates, those are
targeted right now. In fact, because of that established a
(19:34):
base down in Dave of Garcia. But even day of Garcia,
the rantings are taking a shot at. So the security
and the safety and security obviously these assets is hugely concerning.
So there just isn't an easy place to go in
terms of a port visit.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And that's yet another factor that both the American and
Iranian leadership are taking into account when they're contemplating health.
This game of chicken is going to go, and there
are facts on each side that they're really interesting and
leave us unfortunately in the same spot, which is a
bit of a standoff and nobody knowing how long the
(20:15):
other side can go. I mean, for instance, Aron's economy
is in the crapper. I mean, it's bad. Their inflation
is huge, their currency is plunging in value, basic food
prices are very very high. At the same time, though
the IRGC and the mall Is, the powers that be,
they they're fine, They're perfectly fine. They don't give a
crap about the populace because the populacet can't really threaten them,
(20:37):
and they have no moral problem with letting the populace,
starve or descend into poverty or what have you. In fact,
a hardcore among them think, well, there'll be martyrs and
they'll have a higher status with Allah, so we're actually
doing them a favor. So it is difficult to squeeze
somebody when that's going on, although it's absolutely true that
they are being squeezed in their economy shrinking and their
(20:59):
oil revenues plunging. At the same time, though we have
political pressures here in the West, we have the pressures
on our troops and our ships that are there doing
very little for a very long time. And does anybody
who served an active duty can tell you that's one
of the worst things, is marking time, waiting for something
(21:20):
to happen, standing by as it were. So who knows.
The negotiations are ongoing. Jared Kushner is negotiating directly with
some of the leaders of Hamas right now to see
if they can straighten out that agreement, because that is
being cited by Iran as part of the Greater Agreement.
(21:44):
I'm telling you, it's like watching three octopuses fighting. I
can't even figure out who's doing what to whom. So
where that ends nobody knows, Michael, do you have transition
music handy? This is a completely different topic. Two three.
(22:14):
So now that he's quite sure what to do about
AI in a number of different industries and realms, not
only the big picture stuff we're talking about, but as
you bear down into say, the publishing industry, it's thrown
the publishing industry into complete chaos. There's a debut author
whose book was just super crazy hot among the published
(22:38):
users read it. There's a lot of competition for who
had signed the author and put out the book. This
and a debut author getting a multi million dollar book
deal man that is coming out hot.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That's like, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Is there a musical act in recent memory that's been
that hot that when they're discovered, everybody wants them desperately.
But shortly after scoring that multi billion dollar book deal,
the novelist agents pulled the plug. They could no longer
support the project because they couldn't verify that the book had.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Been wholly written by their client.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The agency told the publishers in a July letter and
I quote, after allegations of AI swirled around, call me
I'll hide the Body. A crime novel by Jerry Falade Faladi.
They wrote, this raises so many questions about authorship and
what AI means for this industry, but those are questions
for another day.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Were out.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And the spectacular implosions over some big book deals over
suspected AI use, and there have been more than a couple,
and fears about who might be next is forcing this
reckoning over what is authorship, what's the relationship between writers
and publishers and the long term survival? Who's supposed to
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solve this problem? How much of a problem is it?
I mean, for instance, last year, seventy authors, including some
of you may have heard of, signed an open letter
to publishers, voicing concerns about jennerative AI and asking them
to make quote a pledge that will never release books
that were created by machines. Yet the Big five publishers,
(24:16):
all of whom you've heard of, have largely been reluctant
to make sweeping pronouncements about a technology that's both potentially
lucrative and increasingly ubiquitous. Many of them are also involved
in lawsuits against tech companies for training their models on
copyrighted books, essentially plagiarizing them, using them without permission. For profit,
but so holy, kel, you know, in a weird way,
(24:37):
this reminds me when we're just talking about Iran and
Hamas and Hezbola and Yemen and the US and the
Strait of horror moves and just.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Nobody even knows what we're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Be arguing about, much less you know where the arguments
ought to end. So this young crime novelist has denied
the accusations, calling oh my god, he's a black guy's
calling them racially motivated. Boy, Well, that removes any sympathy
I might have. Dude, I had no idea what you
(25:10):
look like until I scrolled down in this article and
there he is, and I came across that sentence. No,
if I'm a publisher and somebody says, Hey, a bunch
of this is AI slop, I'm bothered by it.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
It has nothing to do with your race. Wow. Wow Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Does he actually believe that he's a grad student at
SMU so he might actually believe that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Last month, The Atlantic wrote The dagger Mouth, a self
published dystopian romance whose rights were snapped up by Simon Schuster,
which is consistently top bestseller list. I'll bet a lot
of you were aware of that contained hallmarks of AI use.
They ran it through one of those filters, and I
guess they're pretty good right now. But a spokesperson person
(26:01):
for sim Simon and Schuster said, we don't believe the
conclusions should be drawn from AI detection tools that have
been shown to produce false positives. Hm Woolf wrote Daggermouth,
and we stand behind her and her work. Panagram CEO,
co founder and self proclaimed slop janitor Max Sparrow said
the tool's high rate of accuracy has been validated by
(26:23):
multiple third party studies. Why would Shina, Simon and Schuster
drop it because apparently it had already a huge amount
of success, so people were liking it. There's this bigger
angle about the commercial aspect of generative AI fiction, and
then do the organizations really care about holding to that standard? Well,
and that gets to the philosophical question, which we've knocked
around a fair amount around here. If it's really good
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and people like it, who cares? That's not a rhetorical question,
because I know I care in Jack cares. I despise
the idea of AI generated music becoming the music everybody
listens to because it's no longer an expression of creativity,
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although I will tell you this, visited friends not terribly
long ago who have a couple of teenage girls, and
they often have background music in the house almost always.
There's almost always music going in the house, which is
interesting because.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm not a background music guy.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Jack. How often do you have background music going in
your house?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Never?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Never?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, See, we're not background music people. Either I'm either
listening to music or I'm not listening to music.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
But anyway, so.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
These Fox News really loud, and I have that on
the background all the time, of course.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
But these folks who had a couple of teenage girls,
for one big chunk of the day, it was the
girl's choice of what you know, internet quote unquote radio
station is playing and it was pop music and it
was making me murderous.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I mean, it was terrible. But so you're talking.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
About AIM and AI publishing as we just were, and
some best sellers now have been found out to be
partially AI generated.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
But the copies you're so derivative, derivative and.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Countries if a popular modern country song turns out to
be partially AI written, Boy, I'll tell you what, I
gotta really keep turning the pages to get to the
where on the list that comes in of.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
My priorities to be worried.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
About what we were just talking about, how the publishing
world is running around like chickens with their heads cut
off because several like super blockbusters that have been released
are about to be released lately, have been disclosed to
be uh AI generated, at least in part, and nobody
knows what to do, or what the right questions are,
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or if they should do anything at all, and it's
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grabbing images of a chicken worker in school and making
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her naked or whatever whatever it is, or this music
stuff or whatever it is, there's nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You can do about it. Stop acting like you can
turn back the hands of time.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
We're into a new world. There's nothing you can do
about it. Give up, that's my answer. Give up. There's
nothing you can do about it. People are gonna make
AI images, they're gonna make AI songs, They're gonna but
there's just no stopping it.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
You're living in a dream land. If you think you
can stop it.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Would you be more likely to read a book that
had some sort of certified written by a human seal
on it. I would, I'm sure I would. Whether I
should or not don't know, but I would.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I usually choose books based on authors I become aware
of their reputation or hear about it.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
If I heard a book was really good from people
I respect their opinion, which is how I find out
about ninety nine percent of the books I read, specifically
nonfiction books, I'd still read it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
If it's good, it's good.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
If I found out, for instance, I'm so enjoying Tim
Sanderfer's book Proclaiming Liberty, I'm just about done with it.
If I found out that his next book, which makes
the world's most devastatingly effective case against socialism, that it's
being talked about in capitals around the world, I found
out that it was partially it had used AI tools
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to bring it into being. Some of the writing was
fleshed out by AI or something. I would still read
it with enthusiasm because it's about the ideas more than anything.
But it depends on what sort of art you're talking about,
because there is an art writing. There's certainly an art
to music.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I don't know. I'm just novels.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I am not going to read an AI novel unless
I was reading specifically for the to see how far
AI has come along. I have no interest in AI art.
I find that appalling.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
That is the question before us. All right, well we're
out of time, I guess hope. Before we were done.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
I briefly have to talk about because I was just
gone for a few minutes to drop my son off
at school. I have to talk briefly about that, just
to get it out of my head so we can
move on with the rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Among other things.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
On the way, stay here, I'm having a shot of
espresso in this little cup that I really like. I
got a target. See what it says you rock? Says
you rock on my little espresso cup.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
That's so great.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I still find it very.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Difficult to not say espresso, and every day when I
grab this, I tell my kids.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I say, you see this cup.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
See what it says there.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It says I rock.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Cups don't line. I would know as the world's greatest dad, So.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I rock. That's what my espresso cup says.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
And speaking of kids, I just dropped my youngest off
at high school for his very first day of high school.
And the reason this is such a big deal and
I will not go into much detail, as I remember
when Joe used to talk about this when his kids
got older. They're at the age now where I have
I have no business discussing their lives on the radio.
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I probably didn't have any business when they're little, but
they weren't gonna know so. But now that they're older,
I definitely don't feel as comfortable describing their lives on
the radio. But people who have been listening for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
No.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
With my youngest all kinds of medical situations and dropping
him at high school right now, I don't even know
if you know.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
This story, Katie.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
He went to the first half year of kindergarten. That's
the last time he's been in a regular class with kids.
Is first half year kindergarten and ever since then it's
been all kinds of medical stuff and various kinds of
special schools and private tutors and stuff like that, but
got him up to speed, and now he's in with
the regular class, regular high school first day. This is
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among the biggest things that's ever happened in his life,
which he's very very nervous about. I'm nervous about and
I hope it turns out well, but it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
It's a really big deal.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Wow, yeah, to ever be able to do this, So
the fact that he's in a position where he can
even try is really a big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
And as I've talked about many times, I never would
have guessed this as a parent, watching my kids play sports,
even though I was bad at sports and was nervous
all the time, watching my kids was no more nerve
wracking than being me. With that, I would have never
guessed the same way with watching I was scared to
death walk I walked into new schools several times in
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my life, and I was very very nervous. But as
a parent, watching your kid do that is harder than
being the kid.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Oh yeah, I mean if you screw up on the
field to play.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You might have frustration or anger or whatever, but you're
not like suffering, like in the same way you do
as your when your child is struggling.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Oh it's no, it's not even comparable.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, at lace, that was that was news to me, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
No, I was just I was thinking about my first
day of high school and how I remember being on
campus and thinking I have to do this for four years.
This is never going to end, And that was like
one of my bigger fears. I feel like I was
never going to get out of there.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
That's one of the things that's hard to remind yourself
is how long a year looks when you're that age,
or four years looks when you're that age. It just
seems like it's such a long time. It might as
well be forever. Yeah, four years might as well be forever.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, And I was a fairly mature fourteen year old
fear physically, but I remember looking at the eighteen year
old seniors and thinking, why am I in the same
story as that?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yes, right, I'm a boy. That's a young man, but
that's a man over there. I Uh, I'm just going
to be very quiet over here.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We're just talking about this in the car. As a senior,
you're thinking, why am I in a school with children?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Because you're an adult?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Right? Yeah huh?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
And I also wow, the seniors think they know everything.
They don't, but they think they know everything, and you
certainly do. All right, A lot more coming up Stay here,
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The airport duty free store has to come right out
and say it.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
You think we smell? What other explanation is there?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Your store carries two things, cologne and liquor. Who buys
cologne at the airport?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Why?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I just come home wearing a sign that says, honey,
I'm having an affair. And if I'm going to spend
fifty dollars on a bottle of something at the airport,
it's going to be water.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, it's pretty joke.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
So I was thinking while I was on vacation, the
idea of talking about things on the radio that are
actually relevant to people's lives as much as possible, which
has always been the goal. But I think it's easy
as a talk show host to get sucked into the
world of cable news or podcasts or whatever and think
(01:20):
that that's what people are talking about, and it's not
necessarily accurate, certainly not definitely not accurate when it comes
to cable news programs. Here is something that lots of
people are talking about statistically true and just I know
in my everyday life is the GLP one drugs that
have exploded on the scene over the last couple of years.
And now I'm pretty sure I was trying to look
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up the statistic again. Ian Bremer had them out. Almost
everybody in America has heard about the GOLP one drugs
and is aware of them and what they do, and
already one out of ten people are on them, and
they think within two years it's going to be like
thirty percent of people are on the drugs.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So you've you've.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Obviously heard about them. A quick, easy drug not too
expensive that you can take and you lose weight pretty easily.
And I know, like, how many people do you know, Joe,
that that that that are on them? I think I
know six eight people in my own life that have
taken this part to me, but it's a handful, yeah, Michael, No,
(02:25):
Michael's talking off.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
So I thought I thought I was going to look
into it. I thought, I'm going to look into it
for me to take one of these gop one drugs
and see if I could lose the last ten pounds
I want to lose. And I thought I'll probably get
shut down on this. How long do you think it
took me from the thought of I should look into
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this to what I was injecting myself with zep bound.
How long do you think the time period was between?
And I mean the first glimmer was I should look
into that. Maybe I could lose that last ten pounds too.
I'm actually injecting myself with zep bound.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Wow, well you've closed the deal. Obviously. I have no idea.
I don't know what I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I guess I haven't done the math completely. Fifteen hours.
That's how easy.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
That's how easy it is to get on these drugs.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Did you message your doctor or something like that, or
I messaged a doctor.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I didn't message my doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Similar to my story about, you know, using testosterone, there's
all kinds of doctors out there, and uh, I assume
they're actual doctors. I don't look at their diploma. I
don't have any reason to believe that they're not actual doctors.
But I'm amazed at how many people go to medical
school and everything that's involved, then go work for one
of these companies where you do a uh, you know,
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within hours of somebody showing any interest zoom video call,
astro rubber stamp.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
That's what you do for well for yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
That's my point is that why you would go to
medical school. It seems like you had loftier goals when
you first went to medical school then a gay, Well,
every medical class has a bottom ten percent jack and
you think just interacted with them.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Anyway, So I do a chat GPT about my height
and weight and age and physical level, and you know,
do you think I could get one? And I said,
sure you could. And I said which one do you
think would be best? And I said this one and so.
And then I go to a website I or chat
GPT recommended me a couple, so then I click on
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that I go to it.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I had a little questionnaire like that's like five questions long,
make an appointment for just a couple of hours later,
I'm on a zoom call with a with a doctor,
and I thought they were going to be relatively more
skeptical as to why a guy I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Need to really lose weight.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'm if I actually lose the last ten pounds I've got,
I think I'm gonna look like a skeleton. But anyway
if I'm not who the drug was developed for originally.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Certainly anyway, whatsoever, and.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
But anyway, she asked me like two questions, the main
one being do you own a credit card?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And uh, that's a sign.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
So and so I say share and they say, okay,
we'll start you on the lowest dose.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Which pharmacy would you like to use? That's within like.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Two minutes of the phone call. Say okay, I tell
you my pharmacy. I go back online, I put in
my credit card information. I get a ding on my phone.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Like a couple hours later, we got your order. Then
a few hours later, I get the ding.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's filled. I drive to the slowest part in this
was me getting around to drive into the pharmacy, Drive
down to the pharmacy, pick up the drug, come home,
bingo bambo, read the instructions. I'm on it, and I'll
see how it goes today. And it starts working right away,
So it'll be interesting to see today what that does
to mine desire to eat.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Wow. Wow, Wow, I'm sorely tempted. Yeah, why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, you're worried about the explosive diary.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh no, I already got that Oh my god, I
got the booby lettuce, I said, but I like the
taste of it, so I keep eating it. No, it's
a it's a little complicated family dynamics. But yeah, wow interesting.
And like I said, I'm seeing my doc tomorrow, gonna
look at the book.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You canna go to a real doctor. That's gonna slow
you down.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
They're gonna have all kinds of reasons why you shouldn't
got an appointment. They're gonna have all kinds of reasons
why you shouldn't be doing experiments on your bodies. I'm
all about the experiments on my body with kind of
doctors on zoom calls.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To talk to me.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Happen exactly?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What's the worst that could happen?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So that's why I am happy to prescribe you magic mushrooms.
Well I was calling about the weight loss stuff. Oh yeah,
that's that's what I meant, the wait loss stuff. Yes,
it's interested in some viagra. No, I'm fine, all right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
So we'll get that testosterone write out to you. No, no, no, no, no, no,
the weight loss Yes, I'm sorry I keep getting you
mixed up with any of my other very important clients.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Order two questionable drugs and we'll give you twenty percent
off as long as I got my rubber stamp out.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I don't want to get the company in trouble because
you know whatever. But I know what I'm getting into.
But I find that hilarious. I mean, wasn't your thinking
on this that you had to have a certain amount
of weight you need to lose or some sort of medical.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Complications or or something before you qualified for this stuff,
as opposed.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
To basically I want that, and them saying can you
pay for it?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And me saying yeah, and them saying, okay.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
That was the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
All right, mister Trump, here's your everyman question. So you're
paying for it? How expensive is it?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Two hundred and eighty dollars a month?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh that's way less than we heard it first, right,
those Trumps.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That's either a lot to you or it's not, depending
on your life situation. There are times when my life
when that wud have been in no way. But you know,
with them inflation where it is now, I honestly, if
I ate much less could pay for it. Just don't
eating less wow with what it costs him, because I
eat out a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Anyway. Yeah, so that's not very expensive.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
And if you if you've been thinking about it and like,
what would it be like to look into it or
how hard would it be? I'm telling you, by tomorrow
you could be on the drug if you want.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
To be right, it's effortless.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Kind of hilarious, I think, or horrible for.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
The country, although it's not like again, it's not like
you're you're taking something weird and experimental. I talked to
my doctor once about it. He said, all my patients
are tolerating it great, they're doing great.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
So if you want it, let me know.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Right, But I just I thought it was for more
extreme cases or maybe we're all ready to the point of, hey,
if you want to lose that last five pounds, go
ahead try it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, it was at first, but then increasingly, and any
insurance company that's not hit to this at this point
is just bad at their business.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But it's there's just no downside.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There's so much upside to losing weight and being lighter
and healthier unless fat in the belly.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Just if you don't know this stuff already, I'm not
gonna bother informing you because you gotta know, but I
just think there's no reason to hold back. They haven't
come up with any Oh, you know, half of people
who are left arm falls off, or you know, they
lose sight in their eyes.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
But other than that, it works, right, A.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Third of people go blind, painfully blind. Oh Lord, But any.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Way, I will.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I will report back tomorrow what it's like, because it's
supposed to really hit you hard right away, so I'll
be kind of interested today if I if I notice
to a great extent.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I haven't thought about eating it all all day long
or something. Right now, When did you take your first jab?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay, it should have started already, and you only jab?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
How often do you get?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Once a month, same day, every month?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
How was it? Did it hurt? Did bother you?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
No, there was nothing to it whatsoever, like Katie re
ordered a couple of weeks ago. Was no feeling whatsoever.
It was hard.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
When I get out of a chair, it hurts. So yeah,
I'm not that worried about it.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
It reminds me of the old guy who heard the
other day who said I don't do sit ups anymore.
I do get ups, Get out of my chair, get
up out of this chair. That's good, Okay. We got
a lot more on the way, including that crazy, crazy
Hassan Piker in some of the things he said, in
case you haven't quite caught on to what his act
is yet, among other things.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Stay here, they said. Tragedy.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
They said tragedy on so many levels, but particularly just
for everybody who knew Jason, his family, obviously his friends.
We think think of them today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
The Left is trying desperately not to draw the right
lessons from the life, career and death a professor Jason
are Day at Cambridge. Perhaps you heard over the weekend
that this Youngish man who was of the eber mix
Kindy School of Racial Relations in Sociology killed himself.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
More or so, it would seem.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He built a completely fictional autobiography that was easily picked apart.
Virtually every single aspect of his amazing story was easily checkable,
and nobody at Cambridge checked because they were so desperate
to have diversity and to be able to tout this
(11:41):
token on steroids, Jason R.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Day.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Because he was young and handsome and articulate, and he
was just he was a good bauble to shake out
there and to say, look, we're diverse, We're diverse, and
so his not only was his biography built on lies
and outlandish, ridiculous lies, ridiculous lies that I mean, for instance,
(12:05):
he claimed to have been autistic and didn't speak at
all till he was eleven, didn't read till he was eighteen,
but then turned it all around, became a super genius
and a PhD. And virtually everybody in the field of
autism says, there's never been a.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Case like that. That just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I mean, for instance, and his claims about dozens of
marathons and the rest of it. There are documents of
this stuff, and Cambridge didn't even look and then elevated him,
lauded him, celebrated him, and turned a blind eye to
all of the truths that are now so easily discerned.
(12:42):
Here's a BBC report. Here's the head of the Faculty
of Education at Cambridge, professor Hillary Kremen, who was chatting
with him on the bebe And in case it goes
by too quickly, the late mister r asks her, what
do you think about the accusations of tokenism, Like you're
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just hiring me as a token.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
And now Jason is days away from achieving another ambition.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
So good to see you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Here's his new boss at Cambridge.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
We do have a lot of work to do, but
I feel really optimistic.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
There will be doing.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I think this is a tokenistic appointment. What are your
thoughts on this?
Speaker 7 (13:24):
The Board of electors on your interview day were absolutely unanimous.
We are so lucky to have you. You are the
best in the world in terms of the research that
you do.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
An extraordinary journey.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
But for Jason, this is not an end, it's a beginning.
The reaction has been amazing. The of the sequenusness of
that administrator, it's just unbelievable. And then they this guy up.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And then when it was nearly effortlessly discovered that his
so called research was almost entirely plagiarized and phony. And
I've got an account from one of his students who
says he never taught anything. His classes were the biggest
waste of time I've ever seen. She says he would
sit there at his desk and talk about racism, but
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not cite any data or studies, or not ask us
to teach anything. And often he would show up late
and depart early. And it was the strangest, most useless
class I've ever taken in my life. And she says,
when I finally saw the headlines about this, the firing,
not the suicide, but the firing, she said, finally, it
(14:42):
was that obvious to anybody who spent a minute looking
into this. The headline in the New York Times, which
of course must massage it's loyal progressive readers, the headline
is Professor's death leaves behind hard questions for Cambridge on
race and hiring. They admit the school ignored a series
(15:07):
of warnings about his life history and work. You know,
it's funny New York Times. I don't think it leaves
behind hard questions at all. It leaves behind serious questions,
but very very easy questions to answer. Here you have
a desperation to quote unquote diversify. You throw aside merit.
And remember when the administrator Ms Kremen, who is just
(15:31):
I mean, she was doing everything but lifting up her
skirt for this guy, gushing about how the review committee
was unanimous.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Your work is amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
His work was crap.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And there were three other scholars interviewed, all of whom
have better credentials. Two of them, curiously were black women.
I'm not sure why it went the way it went.
Maybe they weren't as perfect a token as mister r.
Day was, but they gave him the gig at any rate,
so they threw away merit. They elevated a plagiarizing fabuloust
who didn't teach, He didn't really do research. He was
(16:07):
a complete fraud and phony, and he became one of
the most lauded figures in academia in Great Britain and
in the US, where people were acutely aware of him.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
We don't operate in those circles, so you might not
be aware of that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But so here's what another professor says, Professor Khindi Andrews
about the situation.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This has been going on to him for three and
a half years. As soon as he became professor at Cambridge.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
There were those people who didn't believe that there should
be a black person in that role.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know what I meant to have in front of me,
ebermex Kendy's quote, I mean that phony race baiting con man.
But he tweeted, essentially, our day was sacrificed on the
altar of racism. Racists went after him from the minute
he was nominated because he was black.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And now they've killed him.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You are either mentally ill if you that, or you
are a dedicated revolutionary and you can't ever admit when
you get caught what you were up to and what
you're doing. It's one thing or the other. There are
only those two choices for people who still defend this guy.
You know, you can't get less racism with more racism.
(17:17):
I say we cut it out completely, stick.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Around Armstrong and Getty. Lengthy deployment.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Military families raise alarms over the well being of sailors
on a Navy ship that has been at sea for.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Nearly nine months.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Martha radd it's there from ABC News. It's difficult to
know whether all the attention being paid to the USS
Link and the giant aircraft carrier there that's been deployed
for a very very long time. It's difficult to know
to what extent the concerns and complaints are sincere and
(17:56):
actual problems, and to what extent it's anti Trump media
attempting to gin up whatever avenue of discontent there is
over the situation in the golf And if I knew
it was one or the other, entirely I would say so,
but I don't. Deployment that long.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Is an issue. As we're about to hear.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
The deployment, primarily in the Middle East includes a record
length of consecutive days without a port call, more than
two hundred.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Go ahead, let's hear the next clip. I haven't stepped
off the ship in the year twenty twenty six. I
haven't been off there. I haven't been off the ship.
I haven't touched land.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's tough, is it?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
My first kid born in February, so I'm very excited
to get home.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Meeter, Yeah, that is that is rough.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The UH and the I think it was a Secretary
of Navy or the scent Coom commander visited the ship
and checked in, say, yeah, it's tough, and guys wish
they could go home and have a port call on
the rest of it, but we can't. War as hell,
which I think is probably about the appropriate response.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Here's Admiral Mike Mullen.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Historically we've been able to typically to go to a
port to take a break, do maintenance, and then come
back online, even back in Vietnam. The problem right now
is in the aor the places we would do that
by rain or in the United Air Memirates, those are
targeted right now. In fact, because of that established a
(19:34):
base down in Dave of Garcia. But even day of Garcia,
the rantings are taking a shot at. So the security
and the safety and security obviously these assets is hugely concerning.
So there just isn't an easy place to go in
terms of a port visit.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And that's yet another factor that both the American and
Iranian leadership are taking into account when they're contemplating health.
This game of chicken is going to go, and there
are facts on each side that they're really interesting and
leave us unfortunately in the same spot, which is a
bit of a standoff and nobody knowing how long the
(20:15):
other side can go. I mean, for instance, Aron's economy
is in the crapper. I mean, it's bad. Their inflation
is huge, their currency is plunging in value, basic food
prices are very very high. At the same time, though
the IRGC and the mall Is, the powers that be,
they they're fine, They're perfectly fine. They don't give a
crap about the populace because the populacet can't really threaten them,
(20:37):
and they have no moral problem with letting the populace,
starve or descend into poverty or what have you. In fact,
a hardcore among them think, well, there'll be martyrs and
they'll have a higher status with Allah, so we're actually
doing them a favor. So it is difficult to squeeze
somebody when that's going on, although it's absolutely true that
they are being squeezed in their economy shrinking and their
(20:59):
oil revenues plunging. At the same time, though we have
political pressures here in the West, we have the pressures
on our troops and our ships that are there doing
very little for a very long time. And does anybody
who served an active duty can tell you that's one
of the worst things, is marking time, waiting for something
(21:20):
to happen, standing by as it were. So who knows.
The negotiations are ongoing. Jared Kushner is negotiating directly with
some of the leaders of Hamas right now to see
if they can straighten out that agreement, because that is
being cited by Iran as part of the Greater Agreement.
(21:44):
I'm telling you, it's like watching three octopuses fighting. I
can't even figure out who's doing what to whom. So
where that ends nobody knows, Michael, do you have transition
music handy? This is a completely different topic. Two three.
(22:14):
So now that he's quite sure what to do about
AI in a number of different industries and realms, not
only the big picture stuff we're talking about, but as
you bear down into say, the publishing industry, it's thrown
the publishing industry into complete chaos. There's a debut author
whose book was just super crazy hot among the published
(22:38):
users read it. There's a lot of competition for who
had signed the author and put out the book. This
and a debut author getting a multi million dollar book
deal man that is coming out hot.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That's like, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Is there a musical act in recent memory that's been
that hot that when they're discovered, everybody wants them desperately.
But shortly after scoring that multi billion dollar book deal,
the novelist agents pulled the plug. They could no longer
support the project because they couldn't verify that the book had.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Been wholly written by their client.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The agency told the publishers in a July letter and
I quote, after allegations of AI swirled around, call me
I'll hide the Body. A crime novel by Jerry Falade Faladi.
They wrote, this raises so many questions about authorship and
what AI means for this industry, but those are questions
for another day.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Were out.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And the spectacular implosions over some big book deals over
suspected AI use, and there have been more than a couple,
and fears about who might be next is forcing this
reckoning over what is authorship, what's the relationship between writers
and publishers and the long term survival? Who's supposed to
(23:56):
solve this problem? How much of a problem is it?
I mean, for instance, last year, seventy authors, including some
of you may have heard of, signed an open letter
to publishers, voicing concerns about jennerative AI and asking them
to make quote a pledge that will never release books
that were created by machines. Yet the Big five publishers,
(24:16):
all of whom you've heard of, have largely been reluctant
to make sweeping pronouncements about a technology that's both potentially
lucrative and increasingly ubiquitous. Many of them are also involved
in lawsuits against tech companies for training their models on
copyrighted books, essentially plagiarizing them, using them without permission. For profit,
but so holy, kel, you know, in a weird way,
(24:37):
this reminds me when we're just talking about Iran and
Hamas and Hezbola and Yemen and the US and the
Strait of horror moves and just.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Nobody even knows what we're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Be arguing about, much less you know where the arguments
ought to end. So this young crime novelist has denied
the accusations, calling oh my god, he's a black guy's
calling them racially motivated. Boy, Well, that removes any sympathy
I might have. Dude, I had no idea what you
(25:10):
look like until I scrolled down in this article and
there he is, and I came across that sentence. No,
if I'm a publisher and somebody says, Hey, a bunch
of this is AI slop, I'm bothered by it.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
It has nothing to do with your race. Wow. Wow Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Does he actually believe that he's a grad student at
SMU so he might actually believe that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Last month, The Atlantic wrote The dagger Mouth, a self
published dystopian romance whose rights were snapped up by Simon Schuster,
which is consistently top bestseller list. I'll bet a lot
of you were aware of that contained hallmarks of AI use.
They ran it through one of those filters, and I
guess they're pretty good right now. But a spokesperson person
(26:01):
for sim Simon and Schuster said, we don't believe the
conclusions should be drawn from AI detection tools that have
been shown to produce false positives. Hm Woolf wrote Daggermouth,
and we stand behind her and her work. Panagram CEO,
co founder and self proclaimed slop janitor Max Sparrow said
the tool's high rate of accuracy has been validated by
(26:23):
multiple third party studies. Why would Shina, Simon and Schuster
drop it because apparently it had already a huge amount
of success, so people were liking it. There's this bigger
angle about the commercial aspect of generative AI fiction, and
then do the organizations really care about holding to that standard? Well,
and that gets to the philosophical question, which we've knocked
around a fair amount around here. If it's really good
(26:44):
and people like it, who cares? That's not a rhetorical question,
because I know I care in Jack cares. I despise
the idea of AI generated music becoming the music everybody
listens to because it's no longer an expression of creativity,
(27:05):
although I will tell you this, visited friends not terribly
long ago who have a couple of teenage girls, and
they often have background music in the house almost always.
There's almost always music going in the house, which is
interesting because.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm not a background music guy.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Jack. How often do you have background music going in
your house?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Never?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Never?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, See, we're not background music people. Either I'm either
listening to music or I'm not listening to music.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
But anyway, so.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
These Fox News really loud, and I have that on
the background all the time, of course.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
But these folks who had a couple of teenage girls,
for one big chunk of the day, it was the
girl's choice of what you know, internet quote unquote radio
station is playing and it was pop music and it
was making me murderous.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I mean, it was terrible. But so you're talking.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
About AIM and AI publishing as we just were, and
some best sellers now have been found out to be
partially AI generated.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
But the copies you're so derivative, derivative and.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Countries if a popular modern country song turns out to
be partially AI written, Boy, I'll tell you what, I
gotta really keep turning the pages to get to the
where on the list that comes in of.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
My priorities to be worried.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
About what we were just talking about, how the publishing
world is running around like chickens with their heads cut
off because several like super blockbusters that have been released
are about to be released lately, have been disclosed to
be uh AI generated, at least in part, and nobody
knows what to do, or what the right questions are,
(28:48):
or if they should do anything at all, and it's
just everybody's in and uproar.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I have an answer, but we'll tell you about it.
Oh goodness.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
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who's wondering about the AI stuff. Whether it's people are
grabbing images of a chicken worker in school and making
(30:21):
her naked or whatever whatever it is, or this music
stuff or whatever it is, there's nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You can do about it. Stop acting like you can
turn back the hands of time.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
We're into a new world. There's nothing you can do
about it. Give up, that's my answer. Give up. There's
nothing you can do about it. People are gonna make
AI images, they're gonna make AI songs, They're gonna but
there's just no stopping it.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
You're living in a dream land. If you think you
can stop it.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Would you be more likely to read a book that
had some sort of certified written by a human seal
on it. I would, I'm sure I would. Whether I
should or not don't know, but I would.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I usually choose books based on authors I become aware
of their reputation or hear about it.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
If I heard a book was really good from people
I respect their opinion, which is how I find out
about ninety nine percent of the books I read, specifically
nonfiction books, I'd still read it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
If it's good, it's good.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
If I found out, for instance, I'm so enjoying Tim
Sanderfer's book Proclaiming Liberty, I'm just about done with it.
If I found out that his next book, which makes
the world's most devastatingly effective case against socialism, that it's
being talked about in capitals around the world, I found
out that it was partially it had used AI tools
(31:45):
to bring it into being. Some of the writing was
fleshed out by AI or something. I would still read
it with enthusiasm because it's about the ideas more than anything.
But it depends on what sort of art you're talking about,
because there is an art writing. There's certainly an art
to music.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I don't know. I'm just novels.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I am not going to read an AI novel unless
I was reading specifically for the to see how far
AI has come along. I have no interest in AI art.
I find that appalling.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
That is the question before us. All right, well we're
out of time, I guess hope. Before we were done.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
I briefly have to talk about because I was just
gone for a few minutes to drop my son off
at school. I have to talk briefly about that, just
to get it out of my head so we can
move on with the rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Among other things.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
On the way, stay here, I'm having a shot of
espresso in this little cup that I really like. I
got a target. See what it says you rock? Says
you rock on my little espresso cup.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
That's so great.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I still find it very.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Difficult to not say espresso, and every day when I
grab this, I tell my kids.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I say, you see this cup.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
See what it says there.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It says I rock.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Cups don't line. I would know as the world's greatest dad, So.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I rock. That's what my espresso cup says.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
And speaking of kids, I just dropped my youngest off
at high school for his very first day of high school.
And the reason this is such a big deal and
I will not go into much detail, as I remember
when Joe used to talk about this when his kids
got older. They're at the age now where I have
I have no business discussing their lives on the radio.
(33:36):
I probably didn't have any business when they're little, but
they weren't gonna know so. But now that they're older,
I definitely don't feel as comfortable describing their lives on
the radio. But people who have been listening for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
No.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
With my youngest all kinds of medical situations and dropping
him at high school right now, I don't even know
if you know.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
This story, Katie.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
He went to the first half year of kindergarten. That's
the last time he's been in a regular class with kids.
Is first half year kindergarten and ever since then it's
been all kinds of medical stuff and various kinds of
special schools and private tutors and stuff like that, but
got him up to speed, and now he's in with
the regular class, regular high school first day. This is
(34:23):
among the biggest things that's ever happened in his life,
which he's very very nervous about. I'm nervous about and
I hope it turns out well, but it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
It's a really big deal.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Wow, yeah, to ever be able to do this, So
the fact that he's in a position where he can
even try is really a big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
And as I've talked about many times, I never would
have guessed this as a parent, watching my kids play sports,
even though I was bad at sports and was nervous
all the time, watching my kids was no more nerve
wracking than being me. With that, I would have never
guessed the same way with watching I was scared to
death walk I walked into new schools several times in
(35:04):
my life, and I was very very nervous. But as
a parent, watching your kid do that is harder than
being the kid.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Oh yeah, I mean if you screw up on the
field to play.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You might have frustration or anger or whatever, but you're
not like suffering, like in the same way you do
as your when your child is struggling.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Oh it's no, it's not even comparable.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, at lace, that was that was news to me, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
No, I was just I was thinking about my first
day of high school and how I remember being on
campus and thinking I have to do this for four years.
This is never going to end, And that was like
one of my bigger fears. I feel like I was
never going to get out of there.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
That's one of the things that's hard to remind yourself
is how long a year looks when you're that age,
or four years looks when you're that age. It just
seems like it's such a long time. It might as
well be forever. Yeah, four years might as well be forever.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, And I was a fairly mature fourteen year old
fear physically, but I remember looking at the eighteen year
old seniors and thinking, why am I in the same
story as that?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yes, right, I'm a boy. That's a young man, but
that's a man over there. I Uh, I'm just going
to be very quiet over here.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We're just talking about this in the car. As a senior,
you're thinking, why am I in a school with children?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Because you're an adult?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Right? Yeah huh?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
And I also wow, the seniors think they know everything.
They don't, but they think they know everything, and you
certainly do. All right, A lot more coming up Stay here,
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