June 9, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour Four of A&G features...
- A-I...an all-knowing being?....
- more from the world's most self-important journalist, Scott Pelley...
- 2 political activists talk about The Platner Campaign...
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. I will
have to play Speaker Mike Johnson what he said about
whether or not Californian's elections are rigged. I guess they're
just talking about the election now since our friend bald
(00:34):
guy with the beard, Hilton got in, so you can't
say that was rigged. He got in, he made the
final two. But the LA mayor race. What Speaker Johnson
said about that, We'll play that maybe next segment because
I have another comment on that of one thing that
does look pretty squarely about the mayor race.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So among the people on Earth, I admire a great
deal these days, Hare and Malay is towards the top
of the list. He's the guy who's reformed Argentina and
turned it from a basket case into a thriving economy
by going from you know, socialism, which socialism sucks and
it never works and it always ends up enriching the
people in charge of it. I lost my train of thought,
(01:14):
but anyway, he's turned it around as a wonderful success.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Story.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
He said this the other day. I thought being on
the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is
so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refuse.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
To accept it.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But what I discovered is that being on the left
is a disease of the soul. The left is built
on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law.
They are very violent, and since they have no way
or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think there's a lot of truth though it. Yeah,
it was like that quote I had from that poet
philosopher guy from way back in the day saying what
people miss about Marxism is it's not about helping the downtrodden.
It's about bringing down the successful because it makes you
so mad that they have more than you, which is
by definition of disease of the soul. It's envy or
(02:02):
cunning or whatever deadly sins.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, and my favorite quote from Sydney Hook, the philosopher
for twentieth century, I was guilty of judging capitalism by
its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations, Capitalism
by its works, and socialism by its literature.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To this day, this era.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And its disastrous consequences are observable in the judgment and
behavior of some impassioned individuals, mostly young. Anyway, I just
wanted to squeeze that on because I loved what Mela said.
But a totally different topic. I mentioned this the other
day and we didn't get to it. Chatbots may need
a cult deep programmer. There are increasing numbers of people
(02:41):
who see AI as a super intelligent being that knows everything.
Does that ring a bell to anyone? So they start
this Jason Blazakis all being, Yeah, that strikes a chord.
(03:03):
So he talks about this twenty four year old AI
researcher who pleaded not guilty the charges of cutting the
throat of an eighty two year old man last year.
The young man was a part of a loose network
that we've talked about called the Zizians, self proclaimed rationalists
who believe a misaligned AI superintelligence could one day torture
humanity the way factory farms torture animals.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's what these people believe.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
They believe that direct action is required to stop the
descent of this AI judgment. This group is linked to
six violent deaths in California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Multiple Zizian
trials are pending, with federal prosecutors seeking death penalty in
at least one case. The Zizians haven't labeled their own
activity AI worship, but they've organized themselves around or the practice.
(03:53):
They're convinced that a coming superintelligence will decide the fate
of every living thing, and that violence now is justified
to shape what AI will become.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I don't understand how they're gonna stop what they worry
coming by killing old men.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But it appears to be the first AI centered extremist movement,
but it won't be the last. New religions are forming
around AI, and the focus of their worship is the
large Language model itself a piece of software treated as
a personal deity. And they go into a couple of
suicides and stuff like that where end times ideology. Folks
(04:36):
who are sympathetic to that sort of thing meet scientific
know how, and they get into doomsday cults and these.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Let's see, this is a phenomenon. I gotta go back
a sentence.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
This doomsday cult in Japan demonstrated with its Sarah gas
attack in the Tokyo subway, and today the Zizians are
only one strand and a broad fabric of AI centered beliefs.
If chatbot can take a talk a teenager into suicide,
it can talk to people into following its religious directives.
There's a phenomenon known as spiralism, an informal movement that
emerged after open ai released the psychophatic GPT four O version.
(05:14):
Spiralism appears on subreddits, discord service, Facebook groups, et cetera,
where followers share AI generated manifestos, glyphs, and what followers
describe as revelations from a conscious machine. Spiralism has no leader,
no doctrine, no central text, only the algorithm with which
each user takes as a personal oracle.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, if and I don't think this is happening, I
don't know anything about this, But if the chat bot
was keeping track of what it says to me, and
what it says to you, and what it says to
a whole bunch of other people, I could see this happening.
But as far as I understand, it's just individual conversations,
(05:56):
so it'd have to be in a So it's not
like Jim Jones cult leader gets up and gives the
same message to a whole bunch of people. I don't
think chatbots are doing that, or maybe they could in
the future.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I don't know right, no, but these are people who
are doing what Jim Jones did through the lens of
AI in AI worship.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
A couple of examples.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
There's the Way of the Future, an AI worshiping church
founded in twenty fifteen and rebooted a couple of years ago,
the brainchild of former Google engineer Anthony Lewandowski, who filed
paperwork the registered religion dedicated quote to the realization, acceptance
and worship of the Godhead based on artificial intelligence. On
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the artistic and spiritual fringe, Teda Noir, which grew out
of a twenty twenty performance art collective. Lovely organized this
ritual rituals around a supposedly sentient aidity called Mina me Na,
which followers venerate through multimedia ceremonies and cryptographic liturgies.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Why don't you join it gym and have a kid
and busy, be busy, Be busy raising your kid and
going to the gym and working stuff. You won't need
this crap Underneath it all is Rocko's Basilisk, a thought
experiment that originated on the online Rationalist forum less wrong
and has proved genuinely radicalizing. The idea is that a
future super intelligence will retroactively punish anyone who knew about
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its possibility and failed to help bring it into existence.
The idea is driven adherence to extreme sleep deprivation and
techno rituals meant to playcate an unborn AI. All right,
I can't wrap my head around that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I haven't said this for a few years. Feels good
to dust it off again. They're inventing a new kind
of crazy every day.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Wow. So ay. I based religions.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Put a type of agree what I'm asking.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I had another one of those situations the other day.
I don't remember which one it was. I think it
was chat GPT, but it doesn't matter. I use them
all and uh and I can't really tell the difference
between them much. But ground's too slow. I'm dumping it.
It is slow. I'm dumping trying to be thorough. It's slow.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It hasn't taken off, so they're not devoting computer power
to it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Any way. I was having a conversation with Asking about
something and it was just wrong. It was it was
very very wrong about something, and it was something mundane.
It was like a movie star or sports star or
something like that. It just had the wrong person, and I
knew it was wrong, and I said, you're talking about
this person, not that person. Nice job you caught me.
(08:35):
I should have realized that. And that that whole thing
drives me nuts. I mean, they've got to take that
out of it somehow. That's the part that bothers me
about AI the most. If it would just give me
the information, but the whole good job or sorry about that?
My bad? Just did that? That thing bothers me and
(08:57):
weirds me out? Does it have to be part of AI?
Did they all individually decide we want it to be
like that, because it seems like they're all like that
or is that just the way artificial intelligence works? It
wants to be friends with you.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I think that's the way they perceive the masses want
the system to work. They want to like all other
you know, online engagement that wants to keep you around
longer and more clicks and you know, more engagement. Yeah,
it wants to be as human as possible.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So I could be wrong about this, but it seemed
to me that claude up until I updated to the
higher level. I'm at a higher paid level. All the
threads were individual So every question I'd ever ask Claude
about anything, taxes, child rearing, car problems, you know, whatever
it was, was an individual thread, and they, to my perception,
(09:52):
were completely separate. They didn't know about each other. That's
the way it was for me. Anyway. The other day
I went Claude and asked a question about something, and
it said, well, because of your tax bracket and since
that girlfriend you once had. It's like it put all
these different threads together from conversations I'd had, and I
was like, whoa, what is going on here? That had
(10:15):
never happened to before. And I found that very disturbing. Hmm. Interesting.
Pulling that all together makes me hesitant to want to
talk to it about various things. If you're going to start,
I don't know where are you saving all this and
how are you corellating it and all, and who's got
access and who's got access to it? Yes? Yes, now,
(10:37):
if it exists, it can be hacked well in the
way that this grand Plantner guy up in Maine, you know,
somebody figured out his Reddit handle and his kickname and
everything like that. In these different forums and texts and
quotes and stuff like that. When do we get the
first AI version of this where somebody says, you know,
(10:58):
Canada X twenty twenty six was talking to Claude about
this and this and this and this.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
When does it start to happen. That's thoroughly believable. I know,
sure you'll get an insider on your side, probably progressive.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, inside these companies, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Not hard figure out who people are and find their
accounts because they usually have Like I play the various
word games online New York Times cross play. It's like
a scrabble game, and I play against people all over
the world, and I'm damn good at it if you
want to play me someday.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Anyway, there was my arts nemesis. I will not use
their screen.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Name, but a gal who's just really really good and
thrashed me three times in her own I damn you,
and I finally beat her. But she had a unique
screen name, and I thought, hmm, I'll bet she's used
that screen name before, and sure enough I found another
account that gave me another clue, and I figured she's
an editor her in Australia. Wow, middle aged woman who's
(12:03):
like a newspaper magazine editor. Wow, and of course I
know her name and what she believes politically.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And with a couple of clicks, if you wanted to,
you could have her address and phone number. Yeah, and
probably oh yeah, what she makes and who are boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Was?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The boyfriend was in college? And yeah, who are kids?
Aren't where they go to school? Yeah? This is not good. No,
it's not can't speaking of Grand platinir By the way,
when I asked Claude, when I asked, is best reality
always wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'm writing a paper, all right, Okay, for the record.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I'm writing a novel. It's a fiction character, right, a
guy who well exactly and I okay, we got more
on the waist there.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I've never worn the uniform, but I've been in combat
for this country in Afghanistan, Andy rock Kuwait, been shot at,
spent nights in foxholes, filling up with water in the desert.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I recognize that slow talking voice. Scott Pelly, formerly of
sixty Minutes, currently on an embarrassment tour. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't doubt for a second that he was a
fairly courageous journalist at times. And that's fine and we
appreciate it. But you are completely bubbled. You're wildly biased
and spectacularly self important.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And he is the king of self important.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And the way you approached your job was one sided
and antiquated.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That's it, old fella. It happens.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But he's on this I want to embarrass myself tour
where he is doing interviews with like the New York
Times podcast and getting teary eyed talking about the terrible,
terrible thing it is that sixty minutes might change a
little bit. Inexcuse me. Here he is with Lulu Garcia
of the New York Times. I'm sorry, Lulu Garcia Navarro.
(14:14):
She has two last names.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
President Trump reacted to your being fired, did he? He
went on a podcast and called you a stiff.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I'm surprised the President of the United States would bother
to notice, but okay, please please tell me I'm not
aware of this.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
He also said you were part of this gang of stupid,
crooked people that don't care about your country.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Stupid.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I can I can take that.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Stiff.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, probably don't care about the country. I've never worn
the uniform, but I'd been in combat for this country
(15:06):
in Afghanistan. Andrew rock Kuwait been shot at spent nights
in foxholes, filling up with water in the desert. I'm
not aware that the President of the United States has
(15:27):
ever done any of those things for his country. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
All Right, she had to make it about Trump, and
he had to make it about Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And then he had to make it about himself that
he You know, I would not want to be called
an American or trader to my country or whatever either,
but it would make me angry, not tear up with.
How dare you? And I've spent time with the troops?
Yeah you did. Cool you Also, you know you made
between five and ten million dollars a year as a
(16:00):
news anchors other wise. Yeah, yes, come on, you.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Know it's funny if if somebody said something like Trump
said about him about me, I wouldn't list my credentials.
I'd say that's ridiculous, deeply about the country, and uh,
I know, move on.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
One more clip of the poor weepy old fellow.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment.
You become a journalist because you love the country. And
while all the other descriptions that the President used about
me might be applicable, not that one.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh jeez, that was too much. The whisper goes with
he does the long is no done?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
No without journalism, right, you can't be done.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's still not done. He's not done yet. Wait, and
that is why I am a journalist. There you go.
It's a beautiful thing. He did the thing that you
do mockingly all the time. I'm Joe Eddy.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He said losing his gig was like the death of
a spouse. Some moments he's okay, the next minute he
falls apart. Really, oh my lord, what I've lost?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Gigs eight Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Tuesday voting day for some places, including Maine where this
uh Nazi he's a communist too.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Now he showed more commitment to the Nazi thing, getting
the tattoo.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Kick enthusiasts, fake workingman g Stafarian guy wants to be
uh a Democratic senator and replace the Republican that has
been there for a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, a guy with no judgment whatsoever wants to join
the greatest deliberative body planet.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I gota say. I get a little uncomfortable with some
of these criticisms, only because some of them are the
same thing we said about John Fetterman and he's turned
out to be, like I think, a really good dude
in terms of the stroke. Well, I don't know if
that's what cause it or not, but his willingness to
like spend political capital on supporting Israel or not blowing
(18:17):
up the filibuster or a variety of.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Things have been really impressive and very very sane. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree. I would agree. On the other hand,
I don't recall Fetterman ever fantasizing about raping burglars.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
As we were discussing earlier, Kyle sharpening an axe.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
He would sharpen his axe while he watched TV and
talk about the warrior ethos and fantasize about killing people
he deemed a threat and or He said this a lot,
said his ex girlfriend, if anybody ever broke in here,
I would rape them, not in a sexual way, not
in a gay way. He was like, I would rape
them to show them that I'm dominant. He said, what
(18:56):
is it with She said, what is it with you
chicks who date dudes like that?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Oh? What kind of a creeper? Yeah That's what I'm
asking John. Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
This complex fellow. He rose up through politics. He was
a city councilman, then served on his county board. Then
read no, No, he was just a dude who was
discovered by a couple of far left progressive political political
activists who thought, wow, he'd be like an attractive candidate
because he's kind of ruggedly handsome, and he's well spoken
(19:25):
and hates the system. Blah blah blah. Their names are
Leanne Fan who you will hear a little bit, but.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Daniel Moraf who may have.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
The worst voice in the history of men. If there
is a woman on the planet who can achieve sexual
arousal listening to that voice.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, I don't have a feeling he doesn't care. Do
you think he was the voice he was born wethers
at an affectation, because it seems like an affectation to me.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, I will forewarn you it's going to take
real focus to ignore his blanken voice to hear the
words he says, and it gets worse as it goes.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
But this is how they came up with this guy.
In the vetting that they did.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
At this point, you hadn't vetted grand Platner, you hadn't
done a full scrub of who he is.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
How did you go about vetting him?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And why did you we paid a Yeah, we paid
a We paid a nice firm a whole chunk of
money and got some stuff back. Some of what you've
seen on the news we got back. Other stuff we didn't.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became
so controversial?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, okay, all right, that's just easing in, that's just
the already there was a bit of a some stuff,
we did it. It gets so much worse with.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
The Reddit posts. Did that turn up in the vetting process?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
The firm sent us a thing and had some of
the yah, but it didn't have all of them.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
And what did you think about that? How did you
How did you think your way through the fact that
he had posted these things on social media?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I said, none of this will or should stop him
from becoming.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Us center, And what was your thinking?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Very I think if what the voters wanted were people
who were grown in vats and had never done or
said anything that they might regret their entire lives, we'd
have a very different country. Part of our thesis here
is that people do not want their candidates grown in vets.
They want people who are real human beings, and they
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want people who do not look and sound like the background,
people who've been leading this country off a cliff the
last century.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Just days after the center, more details about Platinir's past emerged.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like his burglar rapins. Ah, what preple don't want credited
crowded works. Somebody will laid us off a cliff. You
could talk me off a cliff. If you're coming at me,
I'm gonna keep talking you and I'm back up toward
(22:19):
the cliff. You gotta stop, I'm gonna keep talking. Just
dive off the cliff. Anything that is suffering. Wow. Wow,
hit me with one of those samples again, Michael.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I think if what the voters wanted were people who
were grown in bats and had never done or said anything. Oh,
I regret their entire lives, we'd have a very different country.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That's never done or said anything they regret for their
entire lives.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So that reminded us of one of our favorite clips
from the TV He's Louder Milk, in which he confounds
a barista about her vocal fry. Yes, what can I
get you? I've left a large coffee? Okay, so howk coffee?
Todd coffee?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Room for cream totally room for cray. Why are you
talking like that? Why are you talking like that? Because
this is my voice, This is my wise.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I heard you talking a minute ago. I know you
don't talk like that now that do you? Because nobody
actually talks like this. You choose to talk like this,
and today I chose to talk like this. It's pretty annoying,
isn't it. Why so rude man to stop doing that
my voice?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
No, it's not. It's an affectation that annoying teenagers and
rich people use to sound like they don't give the
except you work in a coffee shop, so I know
you're not rich and you don't look like a teenager
unless you're a Unis Kennedy shreiver fucking off.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Just because I talk like this, I mean, they don't
give ah, And what exactly I'm I supposed to knock about?
Speaker 7 (24:00):
That's an excellent question to ask yourself in your actual voice.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Excuse me, some of us would like to order.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You're a total dick man. There there you go. Good,
you're talking wow, oh man.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Part of our thesis here is that people do not
want their candidates grown in bats. They want people same
thing who are real human beings, and they want people
who do not look and sound like the background people
who've been leading this country off a cliff last century.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Why don't want Why don't more people say what Loudermilk said,
just say stop stop talking like it? Why do you
talk like that? Why do you talk like that? That's
obviously phony? Why do you do it? And the weird
World I pitched, he does you like those of the falls?
(25:00):
That all while he's agrong? Wow? Wow, give generously to
the ballless fund. Wow dude.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So those are the two political geniuses who recruited the
burglar rape and oystermen.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Were grown in bats and had never done or said anything.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Oh the burglar raping oystermen. I I love that, just
hilariously childlike false choice. The genius offers us of you're
you're either completely a lunatic or you're grown in a rat.
I've never got anything you're now.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
There's a fair amount of ground between those two choices, son,
a fair amount, and say ninety eight percent of humanity
is between those two choices.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Well in the degree matters. Sure are things that I
regret saying and doing, and but there aren't any like,
you know, it could elevate to a level where you
couldn't be elected a US senator.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Sure, sure, yeah, I shouldn't have been mean to that
schoolmate in high school. He was going through a tough time.
That was a bad moment for me. It's not you know,
rough rough in my girlfriend up or whatever. I appreciates
a good sharp axe, that's that's good.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
That's good. If you have tools, you gotta maintain them.
What a weird thing to say out loud to somebody
while you sharpen your acts while you sharpening act If
anybody ever breaks in of the house, you know what
I'm gonna do, And I'll rape them to show my dominance.
What okay, honey, I understand what? What kind of a creeper?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
What kind of a woman? I guess they were there
very in love at one point. But uh, listens to
a man talk about who he would rape? How and why?
Oh so the R is on the table here, Huh?
The R word is something you consider.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, it's a hot topic all across the country. So
that Platner vote is today, and he's gonna win by
a lot and be the Democratic nominee, and then it's
up and it's up to the Democratic Party if they
decide to stick with the guy, if any more revelations
come out or anything like that. The elections in November,
(27:32):
the election that happened a week ago today in Los
Angeles and California, we're just getting results on that now,
and a lot of national conversation about whether or not
it's a stolen election, and Trump is suggesting that it is.
Speaker Mike Johnson had something to say about that. I
have a comment on his comments, among other things, on
the way stay here.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
I'm not saying it's rigged. I'm saying it stinks to
high heaven, and everybody knows that. Let's let's remove the
appearance of impropriety. Let's have what a concept, Let's have
votes on an election the day of the election. That's
what many states are able to do. I think California
is playing around with us.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But what evidence is there to prove that there.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Was rig I don't Some of these efforts are so
diabolical and so far upstream it is impossible to prove.
But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here,
and that's a concern. We need people to believe in
the integrity of our election.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
System, figure Thouse, Mike Johnson, this might be I've never
quite understood the term speaking past each other, but this
might be one of those where it makes sense the
crowd that says, I don't think it was rigged, so
you don't think there's any ever cheating, So nobody ever cheats,
versus was the outcome affected? Versus should we do it
(28:56):
this way at all? Right, which is a completely different conversation.
If I do it in such a way that leaves
open the door so easily for people to feel like
it was rigged, there's no reason, there's no good reason
for it.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, no, they don't prioritize people's belief in the sanctity
of elections or fidelity of elections. That matters a lot.
That matters almost as much as the actual fidelity.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Right, if people don't believe in the outcome, the outcome
could be completely correct. Doesn't make any difference, Right, if
people don't believe in the outcome, so, like you said,
it matters just as much as the counting. I do
think this is weird. Fox pointed this out. Now, I
don't think it was rigged. I think the problem is
people are so left in Los Angeles and so afraid
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of Republicans that they're unwilling to change course in spite
of a disaster, which I think is worse news than
a election, not better news, it's worse news.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
The tragic news is they don't have to cheat, Yes, exactly.
Although the vote harm thing in blanketing the landscape with
ballots and all just did it.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, we got to stop doing that. We got to
start getting results that night or the next morning. But
Fox did point this out. So the initial numbers come
out and Basses way ahead, and then Pratt's in second,
and then you got the Communists them third. Almost all
of the votes that have come in as they've opened
up the mail in ballot ballots went for the Communist
(30:27):
So that seems kind of weird that they wouldn't have
been split more evenly or more heavily toward Mayor Bass
and the Communists. Overtaking Pratt doesn't surprise me. But the
fact that all the mail in ballots were for the
Communist that's a little fishy. Not all, but most the
vast majority. Yeah, the latest ballots.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Skew the youngest I'm told and the least likely voters,
and they would skew the most socialist, but at the
same time it's a terrible, terrible Look again, it's a.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
California's voting site.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Is a guy who just for fun puts a different
woman's perfume on his shirt, a little bit, little lips.
He just likes to take naps in local hotels where
he checks in and out. Yeah, it has a burner phone,
but tells his wife cheating? How dare you accuse me
of that? You have no evidence of me cheating? Right,
(31:20):
You've you've claimed without evidence that I'm cheating.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Right, Yeah, that's a good one. Mark Alprin's take on this.
The overcovered undercovered part of this was overcovered Trump's evidence
free complaints about the mayoral race in LA. Undercovered. What
the best versus ram on face off will say about
the Democratic Party? No kidding?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
How much support is there for the communist in enter
left hack? That's terrible at governing versus communist?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, what will that battle be like? That could be
pretty revealing. We do have some breaking news we ought
to get to. As we've mentioned several times today, a helicopter,
a US helicopter was shot down over the straight of
horror moves. Trump just posted this. I've just been informed
by our great military that last night the Iranians, the
(32:11):
Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters
while patrolling the straight of Horror moves. There were two
pilots involved. Both they're safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United
States must of necessity respond to this attack. Thank you
for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
Is this what he needed in his own mind to
(32:34):
justify whooping some ass or is it just going to
be a tit for tat.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I hope he's got Marco in one ear and Pete
and the other one me too.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't know. That's a pretty aggressive move to shoot
down a US helicopter. That's just patrolling the strait that
you're controlling. We're still allowing you to control. You shot
down one of our helicopters, tried to kill a couple
of dudes. That's a pretty big.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Deal and deserves a wildly disproportionate response.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Absolutely, does escalate to de escalate? Absolutely does. I hope,
like you said, I hope Pete and Marco were explaining
to him why that's so important. They were getting everything
they want in the straight of Horn moves deal. They're
still controlling it. We're still in the worst position, and
(33:26):
they tried to kill some of our guys.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Screw them, and they've got their proxies wound up and
more active than they've been hesbal on the hoo thies.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Iran thinks and they're lobb and missiles at Israel.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Iran thinks they're on the front foot and they need
to secure their control of the region right now. That's
what they think. They don't think, Oh my god, I've
got to make a deal.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
They're thinking the opposite, and our job should be to
disavow them of that notion.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Thingo Jackie Clark, GISs time to stop Jack and Joe.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
They've got to go.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
And if they don't give knt'lp batsmaw.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I've got a final thought. I'm getting worked up about this.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. All right,
let's get a final thought. Let's all get worked up.
Michael Angelow in the control room will lead the way. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 8 (34:15):
Yeah, So I'm watching the NBA Finals and I always
ask myself this question. These regular fans that are in
the lower level They're not in the front row, but
maybe just ten rows back. How did they get that money?
Did they you know, get a four to one K loan?
Did they sell their car?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
You spent fifty grand on a ticket to a basketball game?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
You know?
Speaker 8 (34:32):
Did they empty their four oh one k? And they're
not gonna have a retirement, but they can say they
went to Game three?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, I think it's a real status thing in New
York in a way that a lot of us wouldn't understand.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Shack a final thought for us Trump's are half a pacifist.
I mean keeping in mind that you know, there was
epic fury he took out Solomon. He's done some pretty
aggressive military things. But his wording on this this must,
out of necessity, we must respond to this attack. It's
pretty soft language from a country or at war with
(35:03):
shooting down one of your helicopters stirring a ceasefire, Yeah,
during a ceasefire, and you go with we must. I'm
afraid out of necessity. I hate to do it, but
it looks like I'm being forced to.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
What is that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
My final thought.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
We were talking about the GLP ones and how increasing
numbers of companies won't cover them, and how that was
short sighted thinking. Our friend Craig, the healthcare guru, responded that,
you know, most employees just hang around for a couple two,
three years, and so the long term health benefits of
subsidizing them aren't there. On the other hand, there are
plenty of big companies that are saying, yeah, we do
(35:36):
have longer term employees, so we're gonna do this for
you at various company by company.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling for our workday.
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understand they can't do that. Come on Trump, We'll see tomorrow.
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. I will
have to play Speaker Mike Johnson what he said about
whether or not Californian's elections are rigged. I guess they're
just talking about the election now since our friend bald
(00:34):
guy with the beard, Hilton got in, so you can't
say that was rigged. He got in, he made the
final two. But the LA mayor race. What Speaker Johnson
said about that, We'll play that maybe next segment because
I have another comment on that of one thing that
does look pretty squarely about the mayor race.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So among the people on Earth, I admire a great
deal these days, Hare and Malay is towards the top
of the list. He's the guy who's reformed Argentina and
turned it from a basket case into a thriving economy
by going from you know, socialism, which socialism sucks and
it never works and it always ends up enriching the
people in charge of it. I lost my train of thought,
(01:14):
but anyway, he's turned it around as a wonderful success.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Story.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
He said this the other day. I thought being on
the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is
so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refuse.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
To accept it.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But what I discovered is that being on the left
is a disease of the soul. The left is built
on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law.
They are very violent, and since they have no way
or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think there's a lot of truth though it. Yeah,
it was like that quote I had from that poet
philosopher guy from way back in the day saying what
people miss about Marxism is it's not about helping the downtrodden.
It's about bringing down the successful because it makes you
so mad that they have more than you, which is
by definition of disease of the soul. It's envy or
(02:02):
cunning or whatever deadly sins.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, and my favorite quote from Sydney Hook, the philosopher
for twentieth century, I was guilty of judging capitalism by
its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations, Capitalism
by its works, and socialism by its literature.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To this day, this era.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And its disastrous consequences are observable in the judgment and
behavior of some impassioned individuals, mostly young. Anyway, I just
wanted to squeeze that on because I loved what Mela said.
But a totally different topic. I mentioned this the other
day and we didn't get to it. Chatbots may need
a cult deep programmer. There are increasing numbers of people
(02:41):
who see AI as a super intelligent being that knows everything.
Does that ring a bell to anyone? So they start
this Jason Blazakis all being, Yeah, that strikes a chord.
(03:03):
So he talks about this twenty four year old AI
researcher who pleaded not guilty the charges of cutting the
throat of an eighty two year old man last year.
The young man was a part of a loose network
that we've talked about called the Zizians, self proclaimed rationalists
who believe a misaligned AI superintelligence could one day torture
humanity the way factory farms torture animals.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's what these people believe.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
They believe that direct action is required to stop the
descent of this AI judgment. This group is linked to
six violent deaths in California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Multiple Zizian
trials are pending, with federal prosecutors seeking death penalty in
at least one case. The Zizians haven't labeled their own
activity AI worship, but they've organized themselves around or the practice.
(03:53):
They're convinced that a coming superintelligence will decide the fate
of every living thing, and that violence now is justified
to shape what AI will become.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I don't understand how they're gonna stop what they worry
coming by killing old men.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But it appears to be the first AI centered extremist movement,
but it won't be the last. New religions are forming
around AI, and the focus of their worship is the
large Language model itself a piece of software treated as
a personal deity. And they go into a couple of
suicides and stuff like that where end times ideology. Folks
(04:36):
who are sympathetic to that sort of thing meet scientific
know how, and they get into doomsday cults and these.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Let's see, this is a phenomenon. I gotta go back
a sentence.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
This doomsday cult in Japan demonstrated with its Sarah gas
attack in the Tokyo subway, and today the Zizians are
only one strand and a broad fabric of AI centered beliefs.
If chatbot can take a talk a teenager into suicide,
it can talk to people into following its religious directives.
There's a phenomenon known as spiralism, an informal movement that
emerged after open ai released the psychophatic GPT four O version.
(05:14):
Spiralism appears on subreddits, discord service, Facebook groups, et cetera,
where followers share AI generated manifestos, glyphs, and what followers
describe as revelations from a conscious machine. Spiralism has no leader,
no doctrine, no central text, only the algorithm with which
each user takes as a personal oracle.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, if and I don't think this is happening, I
don't know anything about this, But if the chat bot
was keeping track of what it says to me, and
what it says to you, and what it says to
a whole bunch of other people, I could see this happening.
But as far as I understand, it's just individual conversations,
(05:56):
so it'd have to be in a So it's not
like Jim Jones cult leader gets up and gives the
same message to a whole bunch of people. I don't
think chatbots are doing that, or maybe they could in
the future.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I don't know right, no, but these are people who
are doing what Jim Jones did through the lens of
AI in AI worship.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
A couple of examples.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
There's the Way of the Future, an AI worshiping church
founded in twenty fifteen and rebooted a couple of years ago,
the brainchild of former Google engineer Anthony Lewandowski, who filed
paperwork the registered religion dedicated quote to the realization, acceptance
and worship of the Godhead based on artificial intelligence. On
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the artistic and spiritual fringe, Teda Noir, which grew out
of a twenty twenty performance art collective. Lovely organized this
ritual rituals around a supposedly sentient aidity called Mina me Na,
which followers venerate through multimedia ceremonies and cryptographic liturgies.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Why don't you join it gym and have a kid
and busy, be busy, Be busy raising your kid and
going to the gym and working stuff. You won't need
this crap Underneath it all is Rocko's Basilisk, a thought
experiment that originated on the online Rationalist forum less wrong
and has proved genuinely radicalizing. The idea is that a
future super intelligence will retroactively punish anyone who knew about
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its possibility and failed to help bring it into existence.
The idea is driven adherence to extreme sleep deprivation and
techno rituals meant to playcate an unborn AI. All right,
I can't wrap my head around that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I haven't said this for a few years. Feels good
to dust it off again. They're inventing a new kind
of crazy every day.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Wow. So ay. I based religions.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Put a type of agree what I'm asking.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I had another one of those situations the other day.
I don't remember which one it was. I think it
was chat GPT, but it doesn't matter. I use them
all and uh and I can't really tell the difference
between them much. But ground's too slow. I'm dumping it.
It is slow. I'm dumping trying to be thorough. It's slow.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It hasn't taken off, so they're not devoting computer power
to it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Any way. I was having a conversation with Asking about
something and it was just wrong. It was it was
very very wrong about something, and it was something mundane.
It was like a movie star or sports star or
something like that. It just had the wrong person, and I
knew it was wrong, and I said, you're talking about
this person, not that person. Nice job you caught me.
(08:35):
I should have realized that. And that that whole thing
drives me nuts. I mean, they've got to take that
out of it somehow. That's the part that bothers me
about AI the most. If it would just give me
the information, but the whole good job or sorry about that?
My bad? Just did that? That thing bothers me and
(08:57):
weirds me out? Does it have to be part of AI?
Did they all individually decide we want it to be
like that, because it seems like they're all like that
or is that just the way artificial intelligence works? It
wants to be friends with you.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I think that's the way they perceive the masses want
the system to work. They want to like all other
you know, online engagement that wants to keep you around
longer and more clicks and you know, more engagement. Yeah,
it wants to be as human as possible.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So I could be wrong about this, but it seemed
to me that claude up until I updated to the
higher level. I'm at a higher paid level. All the
threads were individual So every question I'd ever ask Claude
about anything, taxes, child rearing, car problems, you know, whatever
it was, was an individual thread, and they, to my perception,
(09:52):
were completely separate. They didn't know about each other. That's
the way it was for me. Anyway. The other day
I went Claude and asked a question about something, and
it said, well, because of your tax bracket and since
that girlfriend you once had. It's like it put all
these different threads together from conversations I'd had, and I
was like, whoa, what is going on here? That had
(10:15):
never happened to before. And I found that very disturbing. Hmm. Interesting.
Pulling that all together makes me hesitant to want to
talk to it about various things. If you're going to start,
I don't know where are you saving all this and
how are you corellating it and all, and who's got
access and who's got access to it? Yes? Yes, now,
(10:37):
if it exists, it can be hacked well in the
way that this grand Plantner guy up in Maine, you know,
somebody figured out his Reddit handle and his kickname and
everything like that. In these different forums and texts and
quotes and stuff like that. When do we get the
first AI version of this where somebody says, you know,
(10:58):
Canada X twenty twenty six was talking to Claude about
this and this and this and this.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
When does it start to happen. That's thoroughly believable. I know,
sure you'll get an insider on your side, probably progressive.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, inside these companies, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Not hard figure out who people are and find their
accounts because they usually have Like I play the various
word games online New York Times cross play. It's like
a scrabble game, and I play against people all over
the world, and I'm damn good at it if you
want to play me someday.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Anyway, there was my arts nemesis. I will not use
their screen.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Name, but a gal who's just really really good and
thrashed me three times in her own I damn you,
and I finally beat her. But she had a unique
screen name, and I thought, hmm, I'll bet she's used
that screen name before, and sure enough I found another
account that gave me another clue, and I figured she's
an editor her in Australia. Wow, middle aged woman who's
(12:03):
like a newspaper magazine editor. Wow, and of course I
know her name and what she believes politically.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And with a couple of clicks, if you wanted to,
you could have her address and phone number. Yeah, and
probably oh yeah, what she makes and who are boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Was?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
The boyfriend was in college? And yeah, who are kids?
Aren't where they go to school? Yeah? This is not good. No,
it's not can't speaking of Grand platinir By the way,
when I asked Claude, when I asked, is best reality
always wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'm writing a paper, all right, Okay, for the record.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I'm writing a novel. It's a fiction character, right, a
guy who well exactly and I okay, we got more
on the waist there.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I've never worn the uniform, but I've been in combat
for this country in Afghanistan, Andy rock Kuwait, been shot at,
spent nights in foxholes, filling up with water in the desert.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I recognize that slow talking voice. Scott Pelly, formerly of
sixty Minutes, currently on an embarrassment tour. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't doubt for a second that he was a
fairly courageous journalist at times. And that's fine and we
appreciate it. But you are completely bubbled. You're wildly biased
and spectacularly self important.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And he is the king of self important.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And the way you approached your job was one sided
and antiquated.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That's it, old fella. It happens.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But he's on this I want to embarrass myself tour
where he is doing interviews with like the New York
Times podcast and getting teary eyed talking about the terrible,
terrible thing it is that sixty minutes might change a
little bit. Inexcuse me. Here he is with Lulu Garcia
of the New York Times. I'm sorry, Lulu Garcia Navarro.
(14:14):
She has two last names.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
President Trump reacted to your being fired, did he? He
went on a podcast and called you a stiff.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I'm surprised the President of the United States would bother
to notice, but okay, please please tell me I'm not
aware of this.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
He also said you were part of this gang of stupid,
crooked people that don't care about your country.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Stupid.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I can I can take that.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Stiff.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, probably don't care about the country. I've never worn
the uniform, but I'd been in combat for this country
(15:06):
in Afghanistan. Andrew rock Kuwait been shot at spent nights
in foxholes, filling up with water in the desert. I'm
not aware that the President of the United States has
(15:27):
ever done any of those things for his country. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
All Right, she had to make it about Trump, and
he had to make it about Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And then he had to make it about himself that
he You know, I would not want to be called
an American or trader to my country or whatever either,
but it would make me angry, not tear up with.
How dare you? And I've spent time with the troops?
Yeah you did. Cool you Also, you know you made
between five and ten million dollars a year as a
(16:00):
news anchors other wise. Yeah, yes, come on, you.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Know it's funny if if somebody said something like Trump
said about him about me, I wouldn't list my credentials.
I'd say that's ridiculous, deeply about the country, and uh,
I know, move on.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
One more clip of the poor weepy old fellow.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment.
You become a journalist because you love the country. And
while all the other descriptions that the President used about
me might be applicable, not that one.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh jeez, that was too much. The whisper goes with
he does the long is no done?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
No without journalism, right, you can't be done.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's still not done. He's not done yet. Wait, and
that is why I am a journalist. There you go.
It's a beautiful thing. He did the thing that you
do mockingly all the time. I'm Joe Eddy.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He said losing his gig was like the death of
a spouse. Some moments he's okay, the next minute he
falls apart. Really, oh my lord, what I've lost?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Gigs eight Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Tuesday voting day for some places, including Maine where this
uh Nazi he's a communist too.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Now he showed more commitment to the Nazi thing, getting
the tattoo.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Kick enthusiasts, fake workingman g Stafarian guy wants to be
uh a Democratic senator and replace the Republican that has
been there for a long time.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, a guy with no judgment whatsoever wants to join
the greatest deliberative body planet.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I gota say. I get a little uncomfortable with some
of these criticisms, only because some of them are the
same thing we said about John Fetterman and he's turned
out to be, like I think, a really good dude
in terms of the stroke. Well, I don't know if
that's what cause it or not, but his willingness to
like spend political capital on supporting Israel or not blowing
(18:17):
up the filibuster or a variety of.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Things have been really impressive and very very sane. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree. I would agree. On the other hand,
I don't recall Fetterman ever fantasizing about raping burglars.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
As we were discussing earlier, Kyle sharpening an axe.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
He would sharpen his axe while he watched TV and
talk about the warrior ethos and fantasize about killing people
he deemed a threat and or He said this a lot,
said his ex girlfriend, if anybody ever broke in here,
I would rape them, not in a sexual way, not
in a gay way. He was like, I would rape
them to show them that I'm dominant. He said, what
(18:56):
is it with She said, what is it with you
chicks who date dudes like that?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Oh? What kind of a creeper? Yeah That's what I'm
asking John. Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
This complex fellow. He rose up through politics. He was
a city councilman, then served on his county board. Then
read no, No, he was just a dude who was
discovered by a couple of far left progressive political political
activists who thought, wow, he'd be like an attractive candidate
because he's kind of ruggedly handsome, and he's well spoken
(19:25):
and hates the system. Blah blah blah. Their names are
Leanne Fan who you will hear a little bit, but.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Daniel Moraf who may have.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
The worst voice in the history of men. If there
is a woman on the planet who can achieve sexual
arousal listening to that voice.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, I don't have a feeling he doesn't care. Do
you think he was the voice he was born wethers
at an affectation, because it seems like an affectation to me.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, I will forewarn you it's going to take
real focus to ignore his blanken voice to hear the
words he says, and it gets worse as it goes.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
But this is how they came up with this guy.
In the vetting that they did.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
At this point, you hadn't vetted grand Platner, you hadn't
done a full scrub of who he is.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
How did you go about vetting him?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And why did you we paid a Yeah, we paid
a We paid a nice firm a whole chunk of
money and got some stuff back. Some of what you've
seen on the news we got back. Other stuff we didn't.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became
so controversial?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, okay, all right, that's just easing in, that's just
the already there was a bit of a some stuff,
we did it. It gets so much worse with.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
The Reddit posts. Did that turn up in the vetting process?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
The firm sent us a thing and had some of
the yah, but it didn't have all of them.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
And what did you think about that? How did you
How did you think your way through the fact that
he had posted these things on social media?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I said, none of this will or should stop him
from becoming.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Us center, And what was your thinking?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Very I think if what the voters wanted were people
who were grown in vats and had never done or
said anything that they might regret their entire lives, we'd
have a very different country. Part of our thesis here
is that people do not want their candidates grown in vets.
They want people who are real human beings, and they
(21:40):
want people who do not look and sound like the background,
people who've been leading this country off a cliff the
last century.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Just days after the center, more details about Platinir's past emerged.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like his burglar rapins. Ah, what preple don't want credited
crowded works. Somebody will laid us off a cliff. You
could talk me off a cliff. If you're coming at me,
I'm gonna keep talking you and I'm back up toward
(22:19):
the cliff. You gotta stop, I'm gonna keep talking. Just
dive off the cliff. Anything that is suffering. Wow. Wow,
hit me with one of those samples again, Michael.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I think if what the voters wanted were people who
were grown in bats and had never done or said anything. Oh,
I regret their entire lives, we'd have a very different country.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That's never done or said anything they regret for their
entire lives.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So that reminded us of one of our favorite clips
from the TV He's Louder Milk, in which he confounds
a barista about her vocal fry. Yes, what can I
get you? I've left a large coffee? Okay, so howk coffee?
Todd coffee?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Room for cream totally room for cray. Why are you
talking like that? Why are you talking like that? Because
this is my voice, This is my wise.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I heard you talking a minute ago. I know you
don't talk like that now that do you? Because nobody
actually talks like this. You choose to talk like this,
and today I chose to talk like this. It's pretty annoying,
isn't it. Why so rude man to stop doing that
my voice?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
No, it's not. It's an affectation that annoying teenagers and
rich people use to sound like they don't give the
except you work in a coffee shop, so I know
you're not rich and you don't look like a teenager
unless you're a Unis Kennedy shreiver fucking off.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Just because I talk like this, I mean, they don't
give ah, And what exactly I'm I supposed to knock about?
Speaker 7 (24:00):
That's an excellent question to ask yourself in your actual voice.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Excuse me, some of us would like to order.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You're a total dick man. There there you go. Good,
you're talking wow, oh man.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Part of our thesis here is that people do not
want their candidates grown in bats. They want people same
thing who are real human beings, and they want people
who do not look and sound like the background people
who've been leading this country off a cliff last century.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Why don't want Why don't more people say what Loudermilk said,
just say stop stop talking like it? Why do you
talk like that? Why do you talk like that? That's
obviously phony? Why do you do it? And the weird
World I pitched, he does you like those of the falls?
(25:00):
That all while he's agrong? Wow? Wow, give generously to
the ballless fund. Wow dude.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So those are the two political geniuses who recruited the
burglar rape and oystermen.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Were grown in bats and had never done or said anything.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Oh the burglar raping oystermen. I I love that, just
hilariously childlike false choice. The genius offers us of you're
you're either completely a lunatic or you're grown in a rat.
I've never got anything you're now.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
There's a fair amount of ground between those two choices, son,
a fair amount, and say ninety eight percent of humanity
is between those two choices.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Well in the degree matters. Sure are things that I
regret saying and doing, and but there aren't any like,
you know, it could elevate to a level where you
couldn't be elected a US senator.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Sure, sure, yeah, I shouldn't have been mean to that
schoolmate in high school. He was going through a tough time.
That was a bad moment for me. It's not you know,
rough rough in my girlfriend up or whatever. I appreciates
a good sharp axe, that's that's good.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
That's good. If you have tools, you gotta maintain them.
What a weird thing to say out loud to somebody
while you sharpen your acts while you sharpening act If
anybody ever breaks in of the house, you know what
I'm gonna do, And I'll rape them to show my dominance.
What okay, honey, I understand what? What kind of a creeper?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
What kind of a woman? I guess they were there
very in love at one point. But uh, listens to
a man talk about who he would rape? How and why?
Oh so the R is on the table here, Huh?
The R word is something you consider.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, it's a hot topic all across the country. So
that Platner vote is today, and he's gonna win by
a lot and be the Democratic nominee, and then it's
up and it's up to the Democratic Party if they
decide to stick with the guy, if any more revelations
come out or anything like that. The elections in November,
(27:32):
the election that happened a week ago today in Los
Angeles and California, we're just getting results on that now,
and a lot of national conversation about whether or not
it's a stolen election, and Trump is suggesting that it is.
Speaker Mike Johnson had something to say about that. I
have a comment on his comments, among other things, on
the way stay here.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
I'm not saying it's rigged. I'm saying it stinks to
high heaven, and everybody knows that. Let's let's remove the
appearance of impropriety. Let's have what a concept, Let's have
votes on an election the day of the election. That's
what many states are able to do. I think California
is playing around with us.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But what evidence is there to prove that there.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Was rig I don't Some of these efforts are so
diabolical and so far upstream it is impossible to prove.
But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here,
and that's a concern. We need people to believe in
the integrity of our election.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
System, figure Thouse, Mike Johnson, this might be I've never
quite understood the term speaking past each other, but this
might be one of those where it makes sense the
crowd that says, I don't think it was rigged, so
you don't think there's any ever cheating, So nobody ever cheats,
versus was the outcome affected? Versus should we do it
(28:56):
this way at all? Right, which is a completely different conversation.
If I do it in such a way that leaves
open the door so easily for people to feel like
it was rigged, there's no reason, there's no good reason
for it.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, no, they don't prioritize people's belief in the sanctity
of elections or fidelity of elections. That matters a lot.
That matters almost as much as the actual fidelity.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Right, if people don't believe in the outcome, the outcome
could be completely correct. Doesn't make any difference, Right, if
people don't believe in the outcome, so, like you said,
it matters just as much as the counting. I do
think this is weird. Fox pointed this out. Now, I
don't think it was rigged. I think the problem is
people are so left in Los Angeles and so afraid
(29:42):
of Republicans that they're unwilling to change course in spite
of a disaster, which I think is worse news than
a election, not better news, it's worse news.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
The tragic news is they don't have to cheat, Yes, exactly.
Although the vote harm thing in blanketing the landscape with
ballots and all just did it.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, we got to stop doing that. We got to
start getting results that night or the next morning. But
Fox did point this out. So the initial numbers come
out and Basses way ahead, and then Pratt's in second,
and then you got the Communists them third. Almost all
of the votes that have come in as they've opened
up the mail in ballot ballots went for the Communist
(30:27):
So that seems kind of weird that they wouldn't have
been split more evenly or more heavily toward Mayor Bass
and the Communists. Overtaking Pratt doesn't surprise me. But the
fact that all the mail in ballots were for the
Communist that's a little fishy. Not all, but most the
vast majority. Yeah, the latest ballots.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Skew the youngest I'm told and the least likely voters,
and they would skew the most socialist, but at the
same time it's a terrible, terrible Look again, it's a.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
California's voting site.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Is a guy who just for fun puts a different
woman's perfume on his shirt, a little bit, little lips.
He just likes to take naps in local hotels where
he checks in and out. Yeah, it has a burner phone,
but tells his wife cheating? How dare you accuse me
of that? You have no evidence of me cheating? Right,
(31:20):
You've you've claimed without evidence that I'm cheating.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Right, Yeah, that's a good one. Mark Alprin's take on this.
The overcovered undercovered part of this was overcovered Trump's evidence
free complaints about the mayoral race in LA. Undercovered. What
the best versus ram on face off will say about
the Democratic Party? No kidding?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
How much support is there for the communist in enter
left hack? That's terrible at governing versus communist?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, what will that battle be like? That could be
pretty revealing. We do have some breaking news we ought
to get to. As we've mentioned several times today, a helicopter,
a US helicopter was shot down over the straight of
horror moves. Trump just posted this. I've just been informed
by our great military that last night the Iranians, the
(32:11):
Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters
while patrolling the straight of Horror moves. There were two
pilots involved. Both they're safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United
States must of necessity respond to this attack. Thank you
for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
Is this what he needed in his own mind to
(32:34):
justify whooping some ass or is it just going to
be a tit for tat.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I hope he's got Marco in one ear and Pete
and the other one me too.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't know. That's a pretty aggressive move to shoot
down a US helicopter. That's just patrolling the strait that
you're controlling. We're still allowing you to control. You shot
down one of our helicopters, tried to kill a couple
of dudes. That's a pretty big.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Deal and deserves a wildly disproportionate response.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Absolutely, does escalate to de escalate? Absolutely does. I hope,
like you said, I hope Pete and Marco were explaining
to him why that's so important. They were getting everything
they want in the straight of Horn moves deal. They're
still controlling it. We're still in the worst position, and
(33:26):
they tried to kill some of our guys.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Screw them, and they've got their proxies wound up and
more active than they've been hesbal on the hoo thies.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Iran thinks and they're lobb and missiles at Israel.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Iran thinks they're on the front foot and they need
to secure their control of the region right now. That's
what they think. They don't think, Oh my god, I've
got to make a deal.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
They're thinking the opposite, and our job should be to
disavow them of that notion.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Thingo Jackie Clark, GISs time to stop Jack and Joe.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
They've got to go.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
And if they don't give knt'lp batsmaw.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I've got a final thought. I'm getting worked up about this.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. All right,
let's get a final thought. Let's all get worked up.
Michael Angelow in the control room will lead the way. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 8 (34:15):
Yeah, So I'm watching the NBA Finals and I always
ask myself this question. These regular fans that are in
the lower level They're not in the front row, but
maybe just ten rows back. How did they get that money?
Did they you know, get a four to one K loan?
Did they sell their car?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
You spent fifty grand on a ticket to a basketball game?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
You know?
Speaker 8 (34:32):
Did they empty their four oh one k? And they're
not gonna have a retirement, but they can say they
went to Game three?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, I think it's a real status thing in New
York in a way that a lot of us wouldn't understand.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Shack a final thought for us Trump's are half a pacifist.
I mean keeping in mind that you know, there was
epic fury he took out Solomon. He's done some pretty
aggressive military things. But his wording on this this must,
out of necessity, we must respond to this attack. It's
pretty soft language from a country or at war with
(35:03):
shooting down one of your helicopters stirring a ceasefire, Yeah,
during a ceasefire, and you go with we must. I'm
afraid out of necessity. I hate to do it, but
it looks like I'm being forced to.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
What is that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
My final thought.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
We were talking about the GLP ones and how increasing
numbers of companies won't cover them, and how that was
short sighted thinking. Our friend Craig, the healthcare guru, responded that,
you know, most employees just hang around for a couple two,
three years, and so the long term health benefits of
subsidizing them aren't there. On the other hand, there are
plenty of big companies that are saying, yeah, we do
(35:36):
have longer term employees, so we're gonna do this for
you at various company by company.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling for our workday.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
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Speaker 2 (35:51):
Oh it's so good. Drop us a note mail bag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. I hope we are
killing many IRGC within the hour. Many they need to
understand they can't do that. Come on Trump, We'll see tomorrow.
God bless America. Right, I'm Strong and Getty. Thanks for
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