July 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- China's US land grab, colds & Newsom in South Carolina
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- The pause on weapons to Ukraine & Grok goes rogue
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and
decide and he arms range from studio scene. Say, Sanjola,
(00:38):
we're in a dim lit We're in a timly lit
room dealing with from the fowls the Armstrong and getting
communications compound midwek home day and we're of the tutelage
of our general manager Trump looking at Ukraine. What's looking
at Israel? I'm looking at tariffs. I'm looking at going
after the University's trumpety Trump Trump, Yeah, good board. I
(01:00):
know things are moving, They're shaken. No more status quot
train the swamp. Jack's not down for it. He'd look
at him with his cynicism and his eye rolling. Is
all right? Time to take on the beast. Time to
take on the beast. Here's you with us? Are you
(01:20):
with the beast? Here's the most interesting thing I've heard today?
Oh good, just heard it. Long discussion on MSNBC of
all places, which if you don't watch cable news, and
good for you, you shouldn't, and neither neither do any
of your friends or anybody else. Really, So why we
still talk about it. I have no idea because nobody's
watching these shows. But anyway, MSNBC with talking about an
(01:44):
Atlantic article. Atlantic also left leaning publication, both highly distraught
over the amount of land China has purchased around our
military bases in the United States. Now we've talked about
this before, but the fact that MSNBC and The Atlantic
are saying, holy crap, look how much of land China
(02:06):
has purchased around military installations in the United States of America,
given these recent drone attacks from Israel on Iran and
Ukraine on Russia. So that leads me to believe that's
a real, real story. Not that I didn't think it
was real anyway, but it is really a real story.
I'm interested in the ideological dynamics of that. I happened
(02:29):
to just be thinking about Marxism, both in the twentieth
century and today before we went on in reference to
Mom Dannie and some stuff going on in universities, and
there's one more story that we'll get to later, and
thinking about the Marxists who were just ideologically Marxists in
the twenty first in the twentieth century, and those who
were actual agents of the Soviet Union and I've got
(02:53):
to admit to hear the pretty far left of American
politics making noises about, hey, we've go to be on
the against these damn comedies. That's heartening in a way. Surprised,
it's beyond heartening. But that's a hell of a story. Man.
You talk about we are we're just such a we're
the big dog. We've always been the big big dog,
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will always be the big dog. Whatever I mean that
just we're so that whatever you call that, and combine
that with the naivete of, look, we'll be nice to
them and they'll be nice to us, of course, because
that's how people act. How in the hell did the
United States of America allow Chinese businesses which is the
(03:34):
Chinese Communist Party. I guess people didn't understand that at
the time in their laws. Yes, you're not allowed to
be a company that doesn't do what the Communist Party
wants you to do. So okay, so you're uh, I
was gonna use some fake Chinese name, but I'd probably
get myself into trouble. You're you're you're Bill Jones in
a Chinese name, and you're on a I don't know,
(03:58):
a sandwich corporation whatever you do. You bought a bunch
of land around a military base in the United States
of America and the comedy Party tells you, hey, we're
gonna put a whole bunch of containers shipping containers on
your land. You don't have an option of saying no,
you're not. What are you going to put in them?
Don't worry about it, exactly. So we have shipping containers
full of drones around all our military installations the United
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States on land China purchased long ago, and we allowed
them to do it pretty much. Okay, it's just an
agricultural company. It's an agricultural company based at Shada. It's
just agriculture. Wow. Lord wow. Joshcarborough is even talking about
we got to do something about that eminent domain or something.
But we can't. We can't let them have that land around,
(04:42):
no kidding, that's right, sir. What percentage of people and
or institutions are hip to the whole Michael Pillsbury on
hundred Year Marathon, the evolution and thinking about China. I
suppose a fair number are because Trump made such a
big deal of it, But there are still I guess
my point is there are still large sectors of the
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American economy, especially are our business community that still think
of China ninety percent as a market and are dimly
aware that it's a hostile power bent on our overthrow,
but just dimly well, the American people are there. The
recent polling is it went from like fifteen percent to
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now like ninety percent of Americans who think China is
our enemy. But in terms of business and government, I
don't know. That's a let's have a national vote right now,
that's not a thing really on these as. We don't
have propositions in America, like for instance, Couo, Unicornia. But
let's have a national proposition. Let's take back all the
land within one hundred and seventy five miles probably ought
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to be five hundred miles of any military installation owned
by any Chinese entity. We'll pay for it as a people.
Then we'll sell it to some nice couple from Maine
or something like that. For some reason, it's some constitutional
let's have a vote. Anybody care about that? No, okay, sorry,
in the case of China, it doesn't matter. We're taking
the land back. Yeah, yeah, and you know the call
the Supreme Court, they'll say, yeah, kind of busy. We'll
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call you back. Why don't you go ahead and we'll
let you know. Everybody agrees. So that's a troubling thing. U.
We can get into some of the details later. Here's
the second most exciting thing I've heard today. I'm sorry
before we get to that, Michael, did you just have
your head in your hands? Yeah, I'm fine, guys, I'm
just dealing with the cold a little bit. Okay. Oh okay,
(06:29):
it looks like you were despairing and I thought the
show had been that bad. No, no, no, we're good. Okay,
all right, good. Back to the second most interesting thing.
You have a cold, Michael. Oh, yeah, yeah, the wife
came home with something miserable. Blaming on the wife. Stick
in my little my little booth here. Good. I do
blame it on on the wife though. That'll make you
feel a little better. Um, she gave you a cold,
(06:51):
probably out of malice.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We've talked about this for years. The common cold, because
it is so common, is unappreciated for how miserable it
makes you feel when you're in the midst of a cold.
If you didn't know you had a cold, you'd go
to the hospital because you feel so horrible. It is
the paper cut of illnesses. It won't kill you, but
it's miserable, the paper cut of illnesses. The other story
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most interesting to me today that we don't need to
spend a lot of time on because it's obvious what
it is. But Gavin Newsom is the governor of California,
is in South Carolina meeting voters. Oh that's funny. What
the hell is going on? And as I saw one
cable news host point out, I just did some googling around,
there are no direct flights between Sacramento and Columbia, South Carolina,
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so he must have put some effort in getting there.
And not only that, he was introduced by Congressman Clyburn,
the guy who got Joe Biden the nomination in two thousands.
Well he saved the Democrats winning the election, but he
introduced Gavin Lane nine said, I think this guy's got
a really good chance. So he's got Cliburn on his
(08:02):
side at least, so that's a pretty big deal. Run
Kevin fries In any way. But Gavin Newsom is clearly
for one thousand percent. His life every day is about
how do I get the nomination to run? Clearly Gavin,
whose administration just said, no way, will we stop letting
men compete in girls' sports in California. We're counter suing
(08:26):
the Department of Justice. We're going for justice for trans
You know, you know that that's all good stuff to
throw at him. I don't think you need any of that.
All you gotta do is drive around with your cell
phone out the window. I could do it right now,
Literally could do it right now. Hanson. You've seen it
out from over on Arden because I know you drive
that way too. What is that pile of refuse? What
(08:47):
is that garbage and tents and bikes? Have you seen that? Michael?
It's incredible. It's like a mountain. Now, how big is
that gonna get? Before anybody does it? Anything about it?
Right across from one of the nicer malls. With all
I think I may have designed the perfect anti Gavin
ad that will run in every market in America over
and over and over again. And it was actually a
(09:07):
retweet of a picture run by the fabulous folks at
the California Globe, as I recall, But it's a picture
of a bunch of junkies sprawled out amidst all their
garbage and their needles and crap on a street corner
happen to be Capitol Avenue with the state capitol in
the background. I captioned it, the California dream can be
(09:28):
yours all across America. Vote, Gavin Newsom, How do you
beat that?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Ad?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I could pick We're in Sacramento, the capitol of California.
I could pick a number of streets today, drive down
there with my cell phone out making video. That would
ruin his chances of being the president of the United States,
because how do you explain that? Right? Anyway? Let's start
all challenge all fall short sometimes, yeah, we do. We've
had how homelessness is come to California and we're fighting
(09:57):
it with innovative tools. What the hell is He's getting
the money and the programs. Nobody's more upset about this
than me. What the hell's going on? That was? That
was about? That was about homelessness. He looks we need
our local leaders to take control. What the hell's going on?
You phony, you con man, you criminal? He laughed. I laughed.
(10:20):
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
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Speaker 3 (10:33):
For twenty years, the big lie was that this kind
of immigration didn't hurt working people. Now economists to come
out and said, oh, what a surprise. Even the laws
of supplying demand work in the low end labor market.
So I talk about in that editorial what I call
parallel prosperity that for years Wall Street has done well.
(10:56):
Now it's time for Main Street to do well. And
they can both do well. And that's the one big
beautiful bill. That's the beauty of this. It helps Wall
Street and Main Street.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
All juxtaposition at Wall Street and Main Street should be illegal.
The First Amendment should be limited in that way. It's
just so trite. But finally people are saying, well, of course,
importing huge amounts of underpriced anything undermines the price of
what's in the market, including people. Of course it does.
(11:30):
What was the premise of that? I lost the premise
of that. The premise is for twenty years, the lie
was that immigration did not hurt working people. Rampant illegal immigration,
even though you're left. He left. He's like Bernie were
saying that all along. Yeah, interestingly enough, Yeah he was.
I just was looking at this New York Times article
(11:51):
about what's it called, something about, oh, can Democrats find
their way on immigration? And they talked to all sorts
of reasonable folks with reasonable pinions, and then they come
to Iana Presley, Communist representative of Massachusetts. Quote, Democrats have
to stop talking about the issue of immigration with in
(12:12):
a republican frame. This has nothing to do with law
and order. This is about power control, terror, and it
is about racism and xenophobia. Donald Trump wants to make
America Jim Crow again. And then some so those people,
those Congress people still exist in the Democratic Party. Okay,
we got to take a break. We got some Trump
was asked about Epstein yesterday and his two hour press
(12:35):
conference that he had answering every question about everything in
the world, but he got asked about Epstein and it
came up, and that's pretty entertaining. Among other things. On
the way, we got Katie's headlines next here. Don't miss
it if you missed the segment yesterday on how I'm
trying to get rid of RBF and have a pleasant
look on my face. I have an update on that. Oh,
(12:58):
I got a few texts about that my personal life.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The struggle is real, but I think it can be done. Wow.
I'm fascinated by this or more to come, But first
let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Starting with ABC the headline that's everywhere so far one
hundred and ten dead in Texas and one hundred and
sixty one missing in Kirk County.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, that was the big update yesterday that nobody knew
there were one hundred and sixty one people still missing
and nobody's expecting to find them alive anyway. Wow. Often
the missing thing is just they haven't checked in or
the right people haven't checked in with them. But in
this case, yeah, they have a bad feeling. Yeah, that's something.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
CNN sources say. Hag Seth did not inform the White
House before he authorized the pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is an interesting, damn story. Trump was asked about
this yesterday about the pause and weapons to Ukraine. He said,
I didn't authorize that, and now everybody's like, Okay, who
did and are they in trouble or what's happening there? Right? Wow,
that speaks to a bit of a problem in the
(14:08):
old flow chart there in the administration. Yeah, I've got
I'm intrigued by the idea of we're running short of
necessary armaments. That's worth discussing. But yeah, I've got the
who did it and why? Uh for you later. But
it's it's pretty interesting. And the other interesting part is
that Trump decided to end that press conference in front
of everyone at a cabinet meeting, you know, let the
(14:30):
world know. No, I didn't do that, somebody else did.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean, well, because you know, sorry, while he was
sitting shoulder to shoulder with hegsat right, I mean, that's
throwing a stink bomb out there.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
From the Washington Post, Supreme Court allows Trump to launch
mass layoff and restructuring plans.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, it was another one of those no we're not
going to stop them deals. They didn't rule specifically on
the firings as a procedural thing, but yeah, it's fun.
And the idea that well, no, you can't ever fi
or government employees. Where hell did that idea come from? Well?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The Union from the New York Times confronted over the
Epstein files Trump and Bondietael supporters to move on.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, this is a web of Pam's own weaving. Really,
we can talk about that more later. But if you're
a believer that Trump might be on that list, you know,
it's pretty easy to craft a reason for them to
say move on. It will come up in mailbag. Stay
with us, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
USA Today Elon musk Ai chat Butt Grock praises Hitler
and posts anti Semitic tropes.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh I want to read. Yeah, I want to get
to that story. It's uh, it's nutty. Oh wow, troubling. Oh,
I'm fast. I'm really really interested in that sort of stuff.
I can't wait to hear that.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
From the New York Post, Convicted murderer Derrick Groves eludes
law enforcement as he remains the last New Orleans jail
escape on the run.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I heard that today. There's one guy still out there,
out there. He's a cold blooded murderer. Also, yeah, study
finds he had he had the girlfriend inside, that she
she was the one that helped them get out. He
had he and the two of them were dating. Apparently.
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Study finds ancient dating tips to find modern love avoid
bad breath, do your hair, and don't pick partners while drunk.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Advice. Yeah, well probably I love that story. More on
that later.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And finally from the Babylon Bee, Furious Gavin Newsom says
he won't stand silently by while Trump fixes California.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Mm ah, I love it. Even on MSNBC they were
talking about Gavin Newsom has some quality of life problems
in California that will be difficult to explain to voters.
That was on MSNBC, right right. I just I can't
wait for that to begin. I hope I lived long
(17:09):
enough to see Gavin Newsom's presidential run. It will be
so satisfying. I think you're going to be dead within
two years. I just I'm humble about these things. God
is willing. I will laugh at his demise. Okay, we
got a lot more on the way. Stay here, Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable solutions to cool the planet,
like dumping chemicals in the ocean, sprang salt water into clouds,
and injecting reflective particles into the sky. It's all published
in the New England Journal of screw Up. We're just
throwing stuff at the wall, what happens if we blow.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Up the moon? So Trump was asked about the pause
and shipment of weapons to Ukraine yesterday and he said
I didn't authorize that, and that started quite a conversation
about Okay, who did and why. I think the answer
is out there and we are resuming. Trump has said
(18:06):
that Trump's angrier Putin than he has certainly ever expressed
publicly ever, And this is a developing story, so probably
get into that an hour or two. Anybody with any
familiarity with Trump can figure out where this is heading.
He is through with Putin and personally angered by him.
So yeah, yeah, stay tuned. This is an odd, odd story.
(18:30):
A couple of stories from Silicon Valley Grock, which is
the chatbot. It's the it's the chat GPT of Elon
Musk's ex family, and a number of people like it
very much. We've had listeners say, dude, you ought to
try this one. It's really good. Yeah, yeah, I shouldn't
just rest on chat gpt because I'm so happy with it.
(18:50):
It's amazing. I just it's freaking amazing. But I should
try the other ones. And a couple of yeah, a
couple of my favorite writers keep mentioning Claude being very
I can even remember who's that. Don't know that I
like having one that has a name. I know, don't
you know the whole give him, don't give him human names.
Like yesterday late in the show, we were talking about
(19:12):
this gut Health ripoff company. Sorry, that's allegedly in quotes
my opinion, defensible first Amendment. Get your lawyers off of me.
But they call themselves Zelli DEALI well, not Gut Health
amalgamated or What's in your guts or something else, Sali,
(19:32):
Why is it a chick's name? Why? Well, I'll tell
you why. I think these people are trying to lead
us down the path of feeling like these are human
beings we're talking to and developing personal relationships with non humanities.
That's what they're trying to do. Yes, let's all move
to the uncanny valley anyway, getting back to the story,
(19:55):
So you got your grac It published a number of
ant hy semitic posts Tuesday, It's second flurry of controversial
responses to users in recent months. Wait a minute, what
do you mean? It published a number of posts? Wes,
what that whole sentences? Mystifies me? What on we go.
(20:15):
In a series of viral posts on x GROC started
to call itself Mecha Hitler, as in mechanical Hitler. So
there's sometimes Groc up late at night and like elon
himself or Trump or other people or other people. It
would have been me back in the day. You know,
if you had a few drink, it's a long day,
you're a little frustrated with the world, and you just
start firing crap off. I don't know does GROC do that?
(20:39):
Is Groc drinking whiskey or snorting silicon chips or what?
I don't know. So the chat bot or mecha Hitler
suggested that an account called rad Reflections was a person
named Cindy Steinberg who was celebrating the deaths of dozens
of children went missing a mystic in Texas, but it
start going after because of her last name. It called Steinberger.
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Radical said she was happy that a group of future
fascists had perished in the Texas flood camp. Myssed it
well known as a camp for the children of the
state's political elite. I guess Groc's responses seized on the
user's surname as the grounds for their stance on the issue.
Quote classic case of hatred, dressed up his activism and
that surname every damn time, as they say. Groc posted
(21:23):
at one thirty eight pm. In another post, Groc said
to deal with such viole anti white hate Adolf Hitler,
no question, he'd spot the pattern and handle it decisively.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What what.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Did has Elon responded to this?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, like no, GROC back in your cage. Yeah, yeah,
it's a I can't His comment is here a XAI
said it was working to remove the posts and had
taken action to ban hate speech before Groc posts on
x But Elon is the guy who said which which
(22:05):
AI went on some sort of woke rant it was
Google's and and Elon himself said, they're gonna have to
strip that down to the bottom because that is clearly
an example of you know, they've they've got a particular
attitude running through their entire company that has gotten into
their AI, and that's going to be it's gonna you
(22:27):
have to remove a lot of people to get rid
of that. Well, is that true now of his organization? Yeah?
I don't know. I guess it was a couple of
months ago. Groc posted about the white genocide of non
black South Africans in response to prompts wholly unrelated to
the topic. Why are all of these AI bots like
your least hinged friend who doesn't know when to keep
(22:52):
their mouth shut? Trunk uncle, Yeah, yeah, well it has
no I'd better not say that. Philter Ich, Yes, and
in you know, it's it's reading everything and absorbing everything,
right that starting point thinks it's appropriate to say to
deal with such viole anti white hate Hateolf Hitler no question. Yeah,
(23:13):
he's about the pattern and handle it decisively. That's pretty interesting.
Whoa whoa whoa No.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
No no no no no.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We don't like look to Hitler as an example of
good things Kroc No no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
No no no.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So that's interesting And I'm wondering if they're having those
these conversations. If they're not, they certainly should be. Hey,
those of you work in Silicon Valley. Are you talking
about this? So the fact that these AI things, these
language learning models, everything they get comes from online. I
mean that expression he's too online or she's too online
(23:46):
is about the culture of being online. Is weird. It's
not the way any normal person talks. You're way, way
more snarky and aggressive and and all kinds of bad
things online than you are in real life. All know that.
But so if these AI bots are are learning about
humans from only from Twitter and Facebook and all these
(24:08):
different things, of course that's the way they're going to talk. Well,
they're not only learning about humans from that, but it's
part of the st They aren't sitting around listening to
normal conversations. They aren't sitting around listening to human beings
interact driving in the car or sitting around the lunch table. Right,
it's all published material, so they aren't going to have
any real understanding of the way people don't talk that
(24:31):
way Grock or Chat, GPT or whoever's saying these that's
not the way normal people actually interact. Yeah. Yeah, when
we were on vacation, the Wall Street Journal had a
big story about several big time CEOs, I mean, like huge,
giant corporation CEOs. We're starting to be a little more
open about Yeah. Yeah, AI is going to eliminate many,
(24:51):
many thousands of jobs around here. We're just figuring out
where and when any So that's becoming more and moretant.
I mean it's always been undeniable. All you have to
do is use it a couple of times and start
to picture the sort of you know, like bottom third
of whatever profession, that those jobs will go away. That's
going to be an enormous political economic shock. But any yeah,
(25:15):
I don't know. I run into situations every day where
I think we're a long way from AI taking over
the world, just because like every time I have to
fill out something online with my address, I think we're
a long way from AI taking over. The fact that
I'm putting my address in this box for the eight
millionth time in my life and that isn't automatic means
(25:36):
we're a ways away. Or the fact that if I
type into anything you okay, letter, you okay, question mark,
and it changes it to I, so it doesn't recognize
you as something you could use as a word, doesn't
understand that you okay actually is kind of grammatically okay,
(25:58):
whereas I okay is not. I mean, So, just things
like that makes me think now we're quite a way's way,
because that you could show anybody over the age of
eight you okay, and they would be able to read
that and understand it. But your computer or iPhone or
whatever can't. That's a good point. I just don't know
(26:19):
how quickly they'll overcome that sort of thing or find
workarounds or whatever. But it's it's an interesting question. More
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(27:42):
are getting really tired chat GPT, I just say, where
do I go to see the most? Van Goes? I
didn't see where we were because I'd had that conversation
earlier with it about how do we get to the Met,
so it knew what the conversation was. So I just said,
where do I go to see the most? Bengos? That
said go up to the third floor, numbers eight twenty
(28:04):
two through eight twenty five. I mean, that's just amazing. Yeah,
that is. That's crazy. Huh. And there's all kinds of
examples of that. Again, if you're not using it, men,
you should start. By the way, the past tense of
van Goes is actually van Wentz. Anyway, you know, we
don't really have time for this next story. I'll give
(28:25):
you the very short version of this, and it's very
inside Silicon Valley, but it points to an ongoing fight
in American society. You got this guy, Sean McGuire. He's
thirty nine years old. He's a zillionaire. He's a big
contributor to a private equity fund. Is that what they are,
Sequoa Capital, And they're a super giant financier of things
(28:51):
technical and futuristic and blah blah blah. And if you're
in that world, you're more than familiar with them. They
manage more than sixty billion dollars, top tier venture capital firm.
This guy is he's ses A and G material for sure.
Sean McGuire shout out if you're listening. He posted about
Zorn Mumdani, the communist Islamist jackass who may well be
(29:18):
the next mayor of New York City. McGuire chimed in
on the New York City mayoral candidate, a Democratic socialist
who is Muslim, calling mundanmi On Islamist who comes from
a culture that lies about everything. And he's spent the
days since sparring with ex posters in Silicon Valley types.
And now the left is mobilized trying to get Sequoia
(29:41):
his employer, to get rid of him or silence him
or whatever. And it's an interesting fight. It includes a
number of like big time CEOs of Indian descent, because Mundani,
the African American which I want to talk about, is
actually of Indian descent. Is Indian parents just ended up
(30:03):
in Uganda. But it's really quite the fight. Now, can
you express something that's a little that's out there? Referring
to India as a culture that lies about everything? That
is not the first time I have heard that allegation
about Indian business culture. Really, anything about exception is viewed
(30:25):
differently there than it is in the United States. Yeah, yeah,
But anyway, you're seeing more and more people saying, yeah,
I don't care what you think. Here's what I think
on the right side of the aisle, and I love it.
His ideas are bad. Subjective to the light of day,
they won't last. How is it going me trying to
get rid of RBF? If you suffer from RBF, you
(30:46):
should stay tuned because I've learned some things about that.
We've got mail bag on the way. Also, stay here.
Guy through the slowest pitch of Major League Baseball season
this year night, in an attempt to get out of
a game in which it was a blowout and everybody
wanted to be over, he threw a thirty four mile
an hour pitch, which wouldn't be easy to do. Yeah
(31:10):
that's uh yeah, that's it doesn't have enough steam to
get to the place, right. Yeah. Yeah, here's your freedom
loving quota the day. Continuing our series of the great
Thomas Sowel celebrating his ninety fifth birthday while we were
on vacation. So many choices, I'll go with this one today.
People who pride themselves on their complexity and derit others
for being simplistic should realize that the truth is often
(31:33):
not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Oh that's a good one, right there, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Mailbag drops a note mail Bag at Armstrong and Geddy
dot com. I love this from Alnonymous at the Sea Ranch,
beautiful little community northern California on the Ocean. I have
(31:54):
stayed there many times. Yeah yeah, I'd thought about buying
some real estate there once upon a time, but what
was holding back was I didn't have nearly enough money anyway,
Al rights, I find the best definition of maturity to
be doing what you want to do, even if your
mother wants you to do it. That's a great definition
(32:15):
of maturity anyway, just thinking about it, taking it in yes,
I am ruminating it. In yes, I mean the obvious is,
you know, I'm going to do what I want. And
if your mother says I think that's a great idea,
you say, well, I'm not doing it. You're not mature.
But then he makes his ultimate point. Unfortunately, the left
(32:35):
isn't mature enough to acknowledge wanting anything that Trump's Trump
puts in place, even if they believe it's a good idea.
Order security, sending illegal aliens who are violent criminals out
of the US, requiring able bodied, non child bearing adults
on Medicaid work for their benefit, destroying your on's ability
to create a nuclear warhead. The list is long. Come on, Left,
(32:56):
it's time to grow up. I was thinking of examples
of my high schooler who does a number of things
that are self defeating, but it's part of his whole
rebelling against the man thing that you have to do
when you're that age. Well, right, exactly. You know I've
told the story before, and we should do a mail bag,
but I can't resist. I was. I can picture the
very intersection my dad and I were at stop sign
(33:18):
on the way back to high school. It's probably my
junior year or so, going back for some ballgame or something,
and he was talking about college and I said, yeah,
maybe I don't want to go to college, and he said, Okay,
that's up to you. I well, I, oh, no, I
guess I'll go to college. The one my son is
he's always talking about how lady's gonna stay up, and
then he got stuff to do the next day. I'm like,
how is this going to benefit you? Well, you're not
(33:39):
doing anything. Why is sting up late gonna make it?
Because I'm gonna step as late as I want. Okay,
got it moving along. WNBA observation writes Dan and Frog's Breath,
North Carolina. You know I've spent many any happy days. Indeed,
I lived at one time in North Carolina. I don't
recall visiting the friendly environs of Frogs Breath anyway, he says, gentlemen,
(34:04):
the story the other day about Caitlin Clark finishing ninth
in the player's All Star vote is evidence that the
nineteenth Amendment was a terrible idea should be repealed. Sorry, Katie,
Oh good lord. He wants to deny to write a
woman to vote? Dan, Come on, maybe that sort of
attitude passes in Frog's breath. Not on this show, certainly not,
(34:26):
Robert writes, guys, Tuesday's discussion on gender Benning madness reminded
me of my own identity disorder. See. I was born
in North America, but sometimes I identify as Central American
or South American. You see, I'm actually trans American. That
in my mind? Will so that in mind? Will California
allow me to have my gender as trans am on
my license? Can I get a racing stripe and a
(34:47):
phoenix tattoo on my chest paid for by medical as
gender affirming care. I think he's trying to point out
how absurd all of that is. You are what you are,
no matter what you say.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You are.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Jared and Mississippi totally different topic on the Epstein list.
I'm losing confidence with this administration. Everyone knows Epstein didn't
hang himself, and now the gas lighting continues, just like
under Biden. It's Jared and Missouri. I got this from
Patty coincidental that Net and Yahoo nominated Trump for the
Nobel Peace Prize the day after Trump squashed the Epstein case.
(35:22):
The Masad and CIA used Epstein to blackmail politicians and
political leaders. He was given free rein to do whatever
evil atrocities he could dream up. The public won't let
the story die because of the thousands of children that
have been trafficked. Rexwell was convicted given twenty years. She
should be freed because nothing happened here. Bongino, Patel and
BONDI are obeying orders from Trump. Yeah, I forgot to
(35:45):
bring that aspect of it everybody, those of you, because
I know if you who are really into the Epstein thing,
it's all about the hundreds of thousands of children that
have been trafficked for sex by the Democratic Party in
Hollywood and my number of other people. Yeah, totally different topic.
We are trying to come up with an only fans
gimmick because it's not all sacks, and we came up
(36:09):
with Jack building birdhouses while wearing a female cheerleader outfit.
And boy, the response from you folks has been overwhelmingly positive.
A number of subscribers have already identified themselves Jack, so
have had it. Wow, Wow, I should launch that today.
All I need is the cheerleading outfit some lumber in
a couple of hours. Sounds like a great idea. Get
(36:29):
me doing it. I love it. Um, so we're sending
Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine now, hmm our two. We'll
get into that. If you miss it, get the podcast
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and
decide and he arms range from studio scene. Say, Sanjola,
(00:38):
we're in a dim lit We're in a timly lit
room dealing with from the fowls the Armstrong and getting
communications compound midwek home day and we're of the tutelage
of our general manager Trump looking at Ukraine. What's looking
at Israel? I'm looking at tariffs. I'm looking at going
after the University's trumpety Trump Trump, Yeah, good board. I
(01:00):
know things are moving, They're shaken. No more status quot
train the swamp. Jack's not down for it. He'd look
at him with his cynicism and his eye rolling. Is
all right? Time to take on the beast. Time to
take on the beast. Here's you with us? Are you
(01:20):
with the beast? Here's the most interesting thing I've heard today?
Oh good, just heard it. Long discussion on MSNBC of
all places, which if you don't watch cable news, and
good for you, you shouldn't, and neither neither do any
of your friends or anybody else. Really, So why we
still talk about it. I have no idea because nobody's
watching these shows. But anyway, MSNBC with talking about an
(01:44):
Atlantic article. Atlantic also left leaning publication, both highly distraught
over the amount of land China has purchased around our
military bases in the United States. Now we've talked about
this before, but the fact that MSNBC and The Atlantic
are saying, holy crap, look how much of land China
(02:06):
has purchased around military installations in the United States of America,
given these recent drone attacks from Israel on Iran and
Ukraine on Russia. So that leads me to believe that's
a real, real story. Not that I didn't think it
was real anyway, but it is really a real story.
I'm interested in the ideological dynamics of that. I happened
(02:29):
to just be thinking about Marxism, both in the twentieth
century and today before we went on in reference to
Mom Dannie and some stuff going on in universities, and
there's one more story that we'll get to later, and
thinking about the Marxists who were just ideologically Marxists in
the twenty first in the twentieth century, and those who
were actual agents of the Soviet Union and I've got
(02:53):
to admit to hear the pretty far left of American
politics making noises about, hey, we've go to be on
the against these damn comedies. That's heartening in a way. Surprised,
it's beyond heartening. But that's a hell of a story. Man.
You talk about we are we're just such a we're
the big dog. We've always been the big big dog,
(03:14):
will always be the big dog. Whatever I mean that
just we're so that whatever you call that, and combine
that with the naivete of, look, we'll be nice to
them and they'll be nice to us, of course, because
that's how people act. How in the hell did the
United States of America allow Chinese businesses which is the
(03:34):
Chinese Communist Party. I guess people didn't understand that at
the time in their laws. Yes, you're not allowed to
be a company that doesn't do what the Communist Party
wants you to do. So okay, so you're uh, I
was gonna use some fake Chinese name, but I'd probably
get myself into trouble. You're you're you're Bill Jones in
a Chinese name, and you're on a I don't know,
(03:58):
a sandwich corporation whatever you do. You bought a bunch
of land around a military base in the United States
of America and the comedy Party tells you, hey, we're
gonna put a whole bunch of containers shipping containers on
your land. You don't have an option of saying no,
you're not. What are you going to put in them?
Don't worry about it, exactly. So we have shipping containers
full of drones around all our military installations the United
(04:20):
States on land China purchased long ago, and we allowed
them to do it pretty much. Okay, it's just an
agricultural company. It's an agricultural company based at Shada. It's
just agriculture. Wow. Lord wow. Joshcarborough is even talking about
we got to do something about that eminent domain or something.
But we can't. We can't let them have that land around,
(04:42):
no kidding, that's right, sir. What percentage of people and
or institutions are hip to the whole Michael Pillsbury on
hundred Year Marathon, the evolution and thinking about China. I
suppose a fair number are because Trump made such a
big deal of it, But there are still I guess
my point is there are still large sectors of the
(05:04):
American economy, especially are our business community that still think
of China ninety percent as a market and are dimly
aware that it's a hostile power bent on our overthrow,
but just dimly well, the American people are there. The
recent polling is it went from like fifteen percent to
(05:26):
now like ninety percent of Americans who think China is
our enemy. But in terms of business and government, I
don't know. That's a let's have a national vote right now,
that's not a thing really on these as. We don't
have propositions in America, like for instance, Couo, Unicornia. But
let's have a national proposition. Let's take back all the
land within one hundred and seventy five miles probably ought
(05:47):
to be five hundred miles of any military installation owned
by any Chinese entity. We'll pay for it as a people.
Then we'll sell it to some nice couple from Maine
or something like that. For some reason, it's some constitutional
let's have a vote. Anybody care about that? No, okay, sorry,
in the case of China, it doesn't matter. We're taking
the land back. Yeah, yeah, and you know the call
the Supreme Court, they'll say, yeah, kind of busy. We'll
(06:09):
call you back. Why don't you go ahead and we'll
let you know. Everybody agrees. So that's a troubling thing. U.
We can get into some of the details later. Here's
the second most exciting thing I've heard today. I'm sorry
before we get to that, Michael, did you just have
your head in your hands? Yeah, I'm fine, guys, I'm
just dealing with the cold a little bit. Okay. Oh okay,
(06:29):
it looks like you were despairing and I thought the
show had been that bad. No, no, no, we're good. Okay,
all right, good. Back to the second most interesting thing.
You have a cold, Michael. Oh, yeah, yeah, the wife
came home with something miserable. Blaming on the wife. Stick
in my little my little booth here. Good. I do
blame it on on the wife though. That'll make you
feel a little better. Um, she gave you a cold,
(06:51):
probably out of malice.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We've talked about this for years. The common cold, because
it is so common, is unappreciated for how miserable it
makes you feel when you're in the midst of a cold.
If you didn't know you had a cold, you'd go
to the hospital because you feel so horrible. It is
the paper cut of illnesses. It won't kill you, but
it's miserable, the paper cut of illnesses. The other story
(07:17):
most interesting to me today that we don't need to
spend a lot of time on because it's obvious what
it is. But Gavin Newsom is the governor of California,
is in South Carolina meeting voters. Oh that's funny. What
the hell is going on? And as I saw one
cable news host point out, I just did some googling around,
there are no direct flights between Sacramento and Columbia, South Carolina,
(07:42):
so he must have put some effort in getting there.
And not only that, he was introduced by Congressman Clyburn,
the guy who got Joe Biden the nomination in two thousands.
Well he saved the Democrats winning the election, but he
introduced Gavin Lane nine said, I think this guy's got
a really good chance. So he's got Cliburn on his
(08:02):
side at least, so that's a pretty big deal. Run
Kevin fries In any way. But Gavin Newsom is clearly
for one thousand percent. His life every day is about
how do I get the nomination to run? Clearly Gavin,
whose administration just said, no way, will we stop letting
men compete in girls' sports in California. We're counter suing
(08:26):
the Department of Justice. We're going for justice for trans
You know, you know that that's all good stuff to
throw at him. I don't think you need any of that.
All you gotta do is drive around with your cell
phone out the window. I could do it right now,
Literally could do it right now. Hanson. You've seen it
out from over on Arden because I know you drive
that way too. What is that pile of refuse? What
(08:47):
is that garbage and tents and bikes? Have you seen that? Michael?
It's incredible. It's like a mountain. Now, how big is
that gonna get? Before anybody does it? Anything about it?
Right across from one of the nicer malls. With all
I think I may have designed the perfect anti Gavin
ad that will run in every market in America over
and over and over again. And it was actually a
(09:07):
retweet of a picture run by the fabulous folks at
the California Globe, as I recall, But it's a picture
of a bunch of junkies sprawled out amidst all their
garbage and their needles and crap on a street corner
happen to be Capitol Avenue with the state capitol in
the background. I captioned it, the California dream can be
(09:28):
yours all across America. Vote, Gavin Newsom, How do you
beat that?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Ad?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I could pick We're in Sacramento, the capitol of California.
I could pick a number of streets today, drive down
there with my cell phone out making video. That would
ruin his chances of being the president of the United States,
because how do you explain that? Right? Anyway? Let's start
all challenge all fall short sometimes, yeah, we do. We've
had how homelessness is come to California and we're fighting
(09:57):
it with innovative tools. What the hell is He's getting
the money and the programs. Nobody's more upset about this
than me. What the hell's going on? That was? That
was about? That was about homelessness. He looks we need
our local leaders to take control. What the hell's going on?
You phony, you con man, you criminal? He laughed. I laughed.
(10:20):
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this It is Wednesday, July night. There twenty
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Speaker 3 (10:33):
For twenty years, the big lie was that this kind
of immigration didn't hurt working people. Now economists to come
out and said, oh, what a surprise. Even the laws
of supplying demand work in the low end labor market.
So I talk about in that editorial what I call
parallel prosperity that for years Wall Street has done well.
(10:56):
Now it's time for Main Street to do well. And
they can both do well. And that's the one big
beautiful bill. That's the beauty of this. It helps Wall
Street and Main Street.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
All juxtaposition at Wall Street and Main Street should be illegal.
The First Amendment should be limited in that way. It's
just so trite. But finally people are saying, well, of course,
importing huge amounts of underpriced anything undermines the price of
what's in the market, including people. Of course it does.
(11:30):
What was the premise of that? I lost the premise
of that. The premise is for twenty years, the lie
was that immigration did not hurt working people. Rampant illegal immigration,
even though you're left. He left. He's like Bernie were
saying that all along. Yeah, interestingly enough, Yeah he was.
I just was looking at this New York Times article
(11:51):
about what's it called, something about, oh, can Democrats find
their way on immigration? And they talked to all sorts
of reasonable folks with reasonable pinions, and then they come
to Iana Presley, Communist representative of Massachusetts. Quote, Democrats have
to stop talking about the issue of immigration with in
(12:12):
a republican frame. This has nothing to do with law
and order. This is about power control, terror, and it
is about racism and xenophobia. Donald Trump wants to make
America Jim Crow again. And then some so those people,
those Congress people still exist in the Democratic Party. Okay,
we got to take a break. We got some Trump
was asked about Epstein yesterday and his two hour press
(12:35):
conference that he had answering every question about everything in
the world, but he got asked about Epstein and it
came up, and that's pretty entertaining. Among other things. On
the way, we got Katie's headlines next here. Don't miss
it if you missed the segment yesterday on how I'm
trying to get rid of RBF and have a pleasant
look on my face. I have an update on that. Oh,
(12:58):
I got a few texts about that my personal life.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The struggle is real, but I think it can be done. Wow.
I'm fascinated by this or more to come, But first
let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Starting with ABC the headline that's everywhere so far one
hundred and ten dead in Texas and one hundred and
sixty one missing in Kirk County.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, that was the big update yesterday that nobody knew
there were one hundred and sixty one people still missing
and nobody's expecting to find them alive anyway. Wow. Often
the missing thing is just they haven't checked in or
the right people haven't checked in with them. But in
this case, yeah, they have a bad feeling. Yeah, that's something.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
CNN sources say. Hag Seth did not inform the White
House before he authorized the pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is an interesting, damn story. Trump was asked about
this yesterday about the pause and weapons to Ukraine. He said,
I didn't authorize that, and now everybody's like, Okay, who
did and are they in trouble or what's happening there? Right? Wow,
that speaks to a bit of a problem in the
(14:08):
old flow chart there in the administration. Yeah, I've got
I'm intrigued by the idea of we're running short of
necessary armaments. That's worth discussing. But yeah, I've got the
who did it and why? Uh for you later. But
it's it's pretty interesting. And the other interesting part is
that Trump decided to end that press conference in front
of everyone at a cabinet meeting, you know, let the
(14:30):
world know. No, I didn't do that, somebody else did.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I mean, well, because you know, sorry, while he was
sitting shoulder to shoulder with hegsat right, I mean, that's
throwing a stink bomb out there.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
From the Washington Post, Supreme Court allows Trump to launch
mass layoff and restructuring plans.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, it was another one of those no we're not
going to stop them deals. They didn't rule specifically on
the firings as a procedural thing, but yeah, it's fun.
And the idea that well, no, you can't ever fi
or government employees. Where hell did that idea come from? Well?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The Union from the New York Times confronted over the
Epstein files Trump and Bondietael supporters to move on.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, this is a web of Pam's own weaving. Really,
we can talk about that more later. But if you're
a believer that Trump might be on that list, you know,
it's pretty easy to craft a reason for them to
say move on. It will come up in mailbag. Stay
with us, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
USA Today Elon musk Ai chat Butt Grock praises Hitler
and posts anti Semitic tropes.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh I want to read. Yeah, I want to get
to that story. It's uh, it's nutty. Oh wow, troubling. Oh,
I'm fast. I'm really really interested in that sort of stuff.
I can't wait to hear that.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
From the New York Post, Convicted murderer Derrick Groves eludes
law enforcement as he remains the last New Orleans jail
escape on the run.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I heard that today. There's one guy still out there,
out there. He's a cold blooded murderer. Also, yeah, study
finds he had he had the girlfriend inside, that she
she was the one that helped them get out. He
had he and the two of them were dating. Apparently.
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Study finds ancient dating tips to find modern love avoid
bad breath, do your hair, and don't pick partners while drunk.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Advice. Yeah, well probably I love that story. More on
that later.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And finally from the Babylon Bee, Furious Gavin Newsom says
he won't stand silently by while Trump fixes California.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Mm ah, I love it. Even on MSNBC they were
talking about Gavin Newsom has some quality of life problems
in California that will be difficult to explain to voters.
That was on MSNBC, right right. I just I can't
wait for that to begin. I hope I lived long
(17:09):
enough to see Gavin Newsom's presidential run. It will be
so satisfying. I think you're going to be dead within
two years. I just I'm humble about these things. God
is willing. I will laugh at his demise. Okay, we
got a lot more on the way. Stay here, Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable solutions to cool the planet,
like dumping chemicals in the ocean, sprang salt water into clouds,
and injecting reflective particles into the sky. It's all published
in the New England Journal of screw Up. We're just
throwing stuff at the wall, what happens if we blow.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Up the moon? So Trump was asked about the pause
and shipment of weapons to Ukraine yesterday and he said
I didn't authorize that, and that started quite a conversation
about Okay, who did and why. I think the answer
is out there and we are resuming. Trump has said
(18:06):
that Trump's angrier Putin than he has certainly ever expressed
publicly ever, And this is a developing story, so probably
get into that an hour or two. Anybody with any
familiarity with Trump can figure out where this is heading.
He is through with Putin and personally angered by him.
So yeah, yeah, stay tuned. This is an odd, odd story.
(18:30):
A couple of stories from Silicon Valley Grock, which is
the chatbot. It's the it's the chat GPT of Elon
Musk's ex family, and a number of people like it
very much. We've had listeners say, dude, you ought to
try this one. It's really good. Yeah, yeah, I shouldn't
just rest on chat gpt because I'm so happy with it.
(18:50):
It's amazing. I just it's freaking amazing. But I should
try the other ones. And a couple of yeah, a
couple of my favorite writers keep mentioning Claude being very
I can even remember who's that. Don't know that I
like having one that has a name. I know, don't
you know the whole give him, don't give him human names.
Like yesterday late in the show, we were talking about
(19:12):
this gut Health ripoff company. Sorry, that's allegedly in quotes
my opinion, defensible first Amendment. Get your lawyers off of me.
But they call themselves Zelli DEALI well, not Gut Health
amalgamated or What's in your guts or something else, Sali,
(19:32):
Why is it a chick's name? Why? Well, I'll tell
you why. I think these people are trying to lead
us down the path of feeling like these are human
beings we're talking to and developing personal relationships with non humanities.
That's what they're trying to do. Yes, let's all move
to the uncanny valley anyway, getting back to the story,
(19:55):
So you got your grac It published a number of
ant hy semitic posts Tuesday, It's second flurry of controversial
responses to users in recent months. Wait a minute, what
do you mean? It published a number of posts? Wes,
what that whole sentences? Mystifies me? What on we go.
(20:15):
In a series of viral posts on x GROC started
to call itself Mecha Hitler, as in mechanical Hitler. So
there's sometimes Groc up late at night and like elon
himself or Trump or other people or other people. It
would have been me back in the day. You know,
if you had a few drink, it's a long day,
you're a little frustrated with the world, and you just
start firing crap off. I don't know does GROC do that?
(20:39):
Is Groc drinking whiskey or snorting silicon chips or what?
I don't know. So the chat bot or mecha Hitler
suggested that an account called rad Reflections was a person
named Cindy Steinberg who was celebrating the deaths of dozens
of children went missing a mystic in Texas, but it
start going after because of her last name. It called Steinberger.
(21:02):
Radical said she was happy that a group of future
fascists had perished in the Texas flood camp. Myssed it
well known as a camp for the children of the
state's political elite. I guess Groc's responses seized on the
user's surname as the grounds for their stance on the issue.
Quote classic case of hatred, dressed up his activism and
that surname every damn time, as they say. Groc posted
(21:23):
at one thirty eight pm. In another post, Groc said
to deal with such viole anti white hate Adolf Hitler,
no question, he'd spot the pattern and handle it decisively.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What what.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Did has Elon responded to this?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, like no, GROC back in your cage. Yeah, yeah,
it's a I can't His comment is here a XAI
said it was working to remove the posts and had
taken action to ban hate speech before Groc posts on
x But Elon is the guy who said which which
(22:05):
AI went on some sort of woke rant it was
Google's and and Elon himself said, they're gonna have to
strip that down to the bottom because that is clearly
an example of you know, they've they've got a particular
attitude running through their entire company that has gotten into
their AI, and that's going to be it's gonna you
(22:27):
have to remove a lot of people to get rid
of that. Well, is that true now of his organization? Yeah?
I don't know. I guess it was a couple of
months ago. Groc posted about the white genocide of non
black South Africans in response to prompts wholly unrelated to
the topic. Why are all of these AI bots like
your least hinged friend who doesn't know when to keep
(22:52):
their mouth shut? Trunk uncle, Yeah, yeah, well it has
no I'd better not say that. Philter Ich, Yes, and
in you know, it's it's reading everything and absorbing everything,
right that starting point thinks it's appropriate to say to
deal with such viole anti white hate Hateolf Hitler no question. Yeah,
(23:13):
he's about the pattern and handle it decisively. That's pretty interesting.
Whoa whoa whoa No.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
No no no no no.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We don't like look to Hitler as an example of
good things Kroc No no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
No no no.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So that's interesting And I'm wondering if they're having those
these conversations. If they're not, they certainly should be. Hey,
those of you work in Silicon Valley. Are you talking
about this? So the fact that these AI things, these
language learning models, everything they get comes from online. I
mean that expression he's too online or she's too online
(23:46):
is about the culture of being online. Is weird. It's
not the way any normal person talks. You're way, way
more snarky and aggressive and and all kinds of bad
things online than you are in real life. All know that.
But so if these AI bots are are learning about
humans from only from Twitter and Facebook and all these
(24:08):
different things, of course that's the way they're going to talk. Well,
they're not only learning about humans from that, but it's
part of the st They aren't sitting around listening to
normal conversations. They aren't sitting around listening to human beings
interact driving in the car or sitting around the lunch table. Right,
it's all published material, so they aren't going to have
any real understanding of the way people don't talk that
(24:31):
way Grock or Chat, GPT or whoever's saying these that's
not the way normal people actually interact. Yeah. Yeah, when
we were on vacation, the Wall Street Journal had a
big story about several big time CEOs, I mean, like huge,
giant corporation CEOs. We're starting to be a little more
open about Yeah. Yeah, AI is going to eliminate many,
(24:51):
many thousands of jobs around here. We're just figuring out
where and when any So that's becoming more and moretant.
I mean it's always been undeniable. All you have to
do is use it a couple of times and start
to picture the sort of you know, like bottom third
of whatever profession, that those jobs will go away. That's
going to be an enormous political economic shock. But any yeah,
(25:15):
I don't know. I run into situations every day where
I think we're a long way from AI taking over
the world, just because like every time I have to
fill out something online with my address, I think we're
a long way from AI taking over. The fact that
I'm putting my address in this box for the eight
millionth time in my life and that isn't automatic means
(25:36):
we're a ways away. Or the fact that if I
type into anything you okay, letter, you okay, question mark,
and it changes it to I, so it doesn't recognize
you as something you could use as a word, doesn't
understand that you okay actually is kind of grammatically okay,
(25:58):
whereas I okay is not. I mean, So, just things
like that makes me think now we're quite a way's way,
because that you could show anybody over the age of
eight you okay, and they would be able to read
that and understand it. But your computer or iPhone or
whatever can't. That's a good point. I just don't know
(26:19):
how quickly they'll overcome that sort of thing or find
workarounds or whatever. But it's it's an interesting question. More
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the big art museum in New York, and my kids
(27:42):
are getting really tired chat GPT, I just say, where
do I go to see the most? Van Goes? I
didn't see where we were because I'd had that conversation
earlier with it about how do we get to the Met,
so it knew what the conversation was. So I just said,
where do I go to see the most? Bengos? That
said go up to the third floor, numbers eight twenty
(28:04):
two through eight twenty five. I mean, that's just amazing. Yeah,
that is. That's crazy. Huh. And there's all kinds of
examples of that. Again, if you're not using it, men,
you should start. By the way, the past tense of
van Goes is actually van Wentz. Anyway, you know, we
don't really have time for this next story. I'll give
(28:25):
you the very short version of this, and it's very
inside Silicon Valley, but it points to an ongoing fight
in American society. You got this guy, Sean McGuire. He's
thirty nine years old. He's a zillionaire. He's a big
contributor to a private equity fund. Is that what they are,
Sequoa Capital, And they're a super giant financier of things
(28:51):
technical and futuristic and blah blah blah. And if you're
in that world, you're more than familiar with them. They
manage more than sixty billion dollars, top tier venture capital firm.
This guy is he's ses A and G material for sure.
Sean McGuire shout out if you're listening. He posted about
Zorn Mumdani, the communist Islamist jackass who may well be
(29:18):
the next mayor of New York City. McGuire chimed in
on the New York City mayoral candidate, a Democratic socialist
who is Muslim, calling mundanmi On Islamist who comes from
a culture that lies about everything. And he's spent the
days since sparring with ex posters in Silicon Valley types.
And now the left is mobilized trying to get Sequoia
(29:41):
his employer, to get rid of him or silence him
or whatever. And it's an interesting fight. It includes a
number of like big time CEOs of Indian descent, because Mundani,
the African American which I want to talk about, is
actually of Indian descent. Is Indian parents just ended up
(30:03):
in Uganda. But it's really quite the fight. Now, can
you express something that's a little that's out there? Referring
to India as a culture that lies about everything? That
is not the first time I have heard that allegation
about Indian business culture. Really, anything about exception is viewed
(30:25):
differently there than it is in the United States. Yeah, yeah,
But anyway, you're seeing more and more people saying, yeah,
I don't care what you think. Here's what I think
on the right side of the aisle, and I love it.
His ideas are bad. Subjective to the light of day,
they won't last. How is it going me trying to
get rid of RBF? If you suffer from RBF, you
(30:46):
should stay tuned because I've learned some things about that.
We've got mail bag on the way. Also, stay here.
Guy through the slowest pitch of Major League Baseball season
this year night, in an attempt to get out of
a game in which it was a blowout and everybody
wanted to be over, he threw a thirty four mile
an hour pitch, which wouldn't be easy to do. Yeah
(31:10):
that's uh yeah, that's it doesn't have enough steam to
get to the place, right. Yeah. Yeah, here's your freedom
loving quota the day. Continuing our series of the great
Thomas Sowel celebrating his ninety fifth birthday while we were
on vacation. So many choices, I'll go with this one today.
People who pride themselves on their complexity and derit others
for being simplistic should realize that the truth is often
(31:33):
not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Oh that's a good one, right there, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Mailbag drops a note mail Bag at Armstrong and Geddy
dot com. I love this from Alnonymous at the Sea Ranch,
beautiful little community northern California on the Ocean. I have
(31:54):
stayed there many times. Yeah yeah, I'd thought about buying
some real estate there once upon a time, but what
was holding back was I didn't have nearly enough money anyway,
Al rights, I find the best definition of maturity to
be doing what you want to do, even if your
mother wants you to do it. That's a great definition
(32:15):
of maturity anyway, just thinking about it, taking it in yes,
I am ruminating it. In yes, I mean the obvious is,
you know, I'm going to do what I want. And
if your mother says I think that's a great idea,
you say, well, I'm not doing it. You're not mature.
But then he makes his ultimate point. Unfortunately, the left
(32:35):
isn't mature enough to acknowledge wanting anything that Trump's Trump
puts in place, even if they believe it's a good idea.
Order security, sending illegal aliens who are violent criminals out
of the US, requiring able bodied, non child bearing adults
on Medicaid work for their benefit, destroying your on's ability
to create a nuclear warhead. The list is long. Come on, Left,
(32:56):
it's time to grow up. I was thinking of examples
of my high schooler who does a number of things
that are self defeating, but it's part of his whole
rebelling against the man thing that you have to do
when you're that age. Well, right, exactly. You know I've
told the story before, and we should do a mail bag,
but I can't resist. I was. I can picture the
very intersection my dad and I were at stop sign
(33:18):
on the way back to high school. It's probably my
junior year or so, going back for some ballgame or something,
and he was talking about college and I said, yeah,
maybe I don't want to go to college, and he said, Okay,
that's up to you. I well, I, oh, no, I
guess I'll go to college. The one my son is
he's always talking about how lady's gonna stay up, and
then he got stuff to do the next day. I'm like,
how is this going to benefit you? Well, you're not
(33:39):
doing anything. Why is sting up late gonna make it?
Because I'm gonna step as late as I want. Okay,
got it moving along. WNBA observation writes Dan and Frog's Breath,
North Carolina. You know I've spent many any happy days. Indeed,
I lived at one time in North Carolina. I don't
recall visiting the friendly environs of Frogs Breath anyway, he says, gentlemen,
(34:04):
the story the other day about Caitlin Clark finishing ninth
in the player's All Star vote is evidence that the
nineteenth Amendment was a terrible idea should be repealed. Sorry, Katie,
Oh good lord. He wants to deny to write a
woman to vote? Dan, Come on, maybe that sort of
attitude passes in Frog's breath. Not on this show, certainly not,
(34:26):
Robert writes, guys, Tuesday's discussion on gender Benning madness reminded
me of my own identity disorder. See. I was born
in North America, but sometimes I identify as Central American
or South American. You see, I'm actually trans American. That
in my mind? Will so that in mind? Will California
allow me to have my gender as trans am on
my license? Can I get a racing stripe and a
(34:47):
phoenix tattoo on my chest paid for by medical as
gender affirming care. I think he's trying to point out
how absurd all of that is. You are what you are,
no matter what you say.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You are.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Jared and Mississippi totally different topic on the Epstein list.
I'm losing confidence with this administration. Everyone knows Epstein didn't
hang himself, and now the gas lighting continues, just like
under Biden. It's Jared and Missouri. I got this from
Patty coincidental that Net and Yahoo nominated Trump for the
Nobel Peace Prize the day after Trump squashed the Epstein case.
(35:22):
The Masad and CIA used Epstein to blackmail politicians and
political leaders. He was given free rein to do whatever
evil atrocities he could dream up. The public won't let
the story die because of the thousands of children that
have been trafficked. Rexwell was convicted given twenty years. She
should be freed because nothing happened here. Bongino, Patel and
BONDI are obeying orders from Trump. Yeah, I forgot to
(35:45):
bring that aspect of it everybody, those of you, because
I know if you who are really into the Epstein thing,
it's all about the hundreds of thousands of children that
have been trafficked for sex by the Democratic Party in
Hollywood and my number of other people. Yeah, totally different topic.
We are trying to come up with an only fans
gimmick because it's not all sacks, and we came up
(36:09):
with Jack building birdhouses while wearing a female cheerleader outfit.
And boy, the response from you folks has been overwhelmingly positive.
A number of subscribers have already identified themselves Jack, so
have had it. Wow, Wow, I should launch that today.
All I need is the cheerleading outfit some lumber in
a couple of hours. Sounds like a great idea. Get
(36:29):
me doing it. I love it. Um, so we're sending
Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine now, hmm our two. We'll
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