June 9, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour Two of A&G features...
- Pres. Trump goes to the NBA Finals...
- The advantage of being a younger sibling...
- The Strait, Israel & the president's blind spot...
- Apple's new parental controls--will they work?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Ketty arm Strong
and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The President has attended major sporting events before as commander
in chief, and he was a courtside regular as a
New York businessman, but his presidence here tonight and all
the security of rings as any fans crying foul.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, they already hate Trump. But I got admit, if
it was anybody take politics out of it completely, as
a fan, I would be thinking, do you really need
to come? Given what this does to well? Let Edokeef
of CBS News lay out what it was like for
people getting into the game.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, the real actions on the court tonight. Hundreds of
Secret Service and a thousand NYPD are also suiting up
part of a massive security plan to protect the president.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
A long time New York Knicks.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Fan, if you are not going to the game, we're
asking you to avoid the area around Madison Square Garden tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
A five block perimeter around Madison Square Garden is shut down.
Ticket Holders are being asked to show up at least
two hours early. The game comes a day after Five
people were stabbed in Penn Station just below the Garden,
one seriously injured.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's its own story. We need to talk about that later.
Guy that had stabbed people years ago, loose on the
street stabbing more people. Anyway, Well, what's your thoughts on
that you got a grudge against a president showing up
to an event you want to go to. I mean,
because they don't need to be there. Now, I'm gonna
put my fairness hat on. Think about if I was,
if I had to deal with all that crap because
(01:47):
Biden wanted to make a briefish appearance, say you're Obama.
I don't think it's politics. So there's no political advantage
for Trump being there? Is there? I wanted to go.
He flung New York, and he grew up in New York,
and he's a knicks man. I think that's what it
was about. Yeah, yeah, I'd probably bitch about it, but
I wouldn't worry about it that much. Now, if I
(02:09):
was going to the three hour line three hour line
to get into the game, I'm an older man. I
might need to have like an empty milk jog. Yeah,
a point on it. But yeah, yeah, if you were
used to going to those viewing parties right outside the garden,
which sound like just a great time. Yeah, yeah, I
would resent that some that those were closed down. So
(02:32):
the booing might have been It's a democratic city in
the same way that La no matter what happens, as
we just saw, is going to vote for a Democrat.
New York's kind of that way. And so then i't
like Trump anyway. And then you waited in line for
three hours. That does not exactly set up the mood
of the crowd to cheer you when they were in
(02:53):
line for three hours to get in to sit in
there somewhere between seven thousand and a million dollars seat jikes. Anyways,
during the national anthem that they put Trump up on
the screen, and is there some cheering? Yeah, there's some.
(03:19):
I would have called it because I was watching it live.
Sixty five thirty five two thirds a third who cares? Oh,
it doesn't matter. That's a meaningless thing, far from the
greatest challenge the Republic is facing. I at the present moment,
I couldn't stop just trying to recognize people in the
front row every time there was a player, a timeout
or whatever. And I was wondering do do those people like,
(03:42):
had they ever met before? Do they know each other?
Or do you become friends? Or like now that Chalomey
and Spike Lee are high fiven or had they ever
met before the Knicks thing got out of got on hand?
Or Ben Still or how about uh Ram Emmanuel and
Larry David. That was a good pairing right there. I
(04:04):
don't know if they'd ever met before, but man, they're
other and so I really full disclosure, I'm just not
an NBA fan at this point in my life, and
I didn't watch the game, but I was caught. I
was intrigued by the fact that what is her name?
The actress she was on one of the police procedures
for years market hagetary or what do you know the
(04:26):
woman I'm talking about, Michael right, what the hell's her name?
Is it Marisia? Or no, no, no, I know who
you're talking about. Assume it's to celebrity. It's a woman. Yeah,
Well I just said she was on a police procedural
that was a super big hit for a long time.
Market anyway, she was in the front row, and I'm like,
really really, yeah, she's starring in a new show I
(04:47):
think on Broadway. It's her rival or something. Riska that's it. Yeah,
Mriska hargitay. Uh, that's a billboard. They bought a billboard
for the show. Oh, they're at Courtside. That's a good airsporis.
Argidage's starring in the new revival of whatever the hell.
It's like buying an ad brigadoon. Yeah. Mostly it's super
(05:10):
rich people. So I'm assuming that Tracy Morgan who won
ninety million dollars because that Walmart truck hit him and
almost killed him. So he's among the super rich, and
he's at all the Knicks games. He was sitting in
the front row with Tina Feye next to him. I
wonder if he went ahead and comm you know, said out,
you come to the game with me. They started together
(05:31):
back on thirty Rock together, worked exactly in that live
truly funny show The Rama Manual Larry David Robert Kraft.
Three people in a row, like, I don't know if
they're friends or if they'd met for the first time
there at the gar Oh hey, you know, i'd be
just kind of a weird oh hey moment, just like
somebody you've seen on to Oh hey, you're the guy
that owns the Patriots. Oh you're the guy that might
(05:52):
be the next president, Nia shak hands. I would wait
three hours in line to overhear their conversation. No kidding,
that's an interesting grouping all the way around. It was
that way everywhere. Man. The coolest one though, was I'd
become I'm kind of a Jalen Brunson fanboy, even though
I'm rooting for the Spurs. Got into him last year.
He is some super stud performer. But anyway, he had
(06:12):
some amazing clutch plays last night with the crowd going
crazy and everything like that. And they go over to
also in the front row, Derek Jeter sitting with Eli
Manning high fiving. I thought, there is some guys that
understand what it's like to be in front of that
crowd and perform. Well, right, pressure, that was a cool
group right there. Coming up, your birth order affects your future,
(06:32):
but not for the reason you think, Jack, How do
I always respond to a headline like that? How do
you know what I think? But really interesting science about
birth order? Holy cat? You think? Okay, well I'll have
to hear this. Oh are you a scientist? Are you
answered the question? He's not answering, folks, I could be
(06:56):
in Congress and do one of those hearings. Yeah, I know,
exactly answer the question. I'm trying to you a question.
Every time I start dance, I reclaim my time, yes,
and then you yell I reclaimed my time, and nobody
knows what that means, so you stop talking. No way
to run a republic, folks. I had one other thing
(07:17):
I wanted to tease before we got going. Oh Apple,
The Apple Update seria is completely different.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I haven't tried it yet, but the new AI series.
Some people are saying it's really fantastic. But more important
than that, they announced a whole bunch of new parental
controls that I'm super into as a guy who's got
a couple of teen boys with iPhones that will We'll
update you on that whole thing too. And we got
to get into the Iran war at some point. Trump
(07:45):
making some pretty big claims today that it could be
over in a matter of days. I feel like I've
heard this a few times, not exactly sure what he's
trying to accomplish with those promises at this point and
who he's putting pressure on host again, Echoes of the
Ukraine Russia thing? Who's the roadblock to an agreement? Here? Again?
(08:07):
Donald J? Is it really is? Is it really is real?
We'll talk about it, all right. We got a lot
on the way. Stay here. Trump in New York City
Mayor Zorin Mamdani was also at the game. The guy
in charge of the kiss cam was like, should I
(08:32):
could be fun.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Out of it?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I didn't get that joke, right, We didn't get it either, Michael, Yeah,
what's the what's the joke there? Michael? Oh, you're running
kiss cam?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
You're supposed to you put the kiss cam on Mandami
and who he's supposed to kiss?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The person next him or whatever? Man, I still don't
understand that. What It doesn't matter. But the communist came
on him. Mndami spend one thousand dollars for standing room
only tickets to try to be a regular working class guy.
I guess, I guess all right, Jack, you are the
(09:08):
oldest sibling in your family, correct. I am I am
a three, I am a middle child, the middle of three.
And I must say I've never put much stock in
birth order. No, no, I you know, I don't want
to jump to the conclusion, but well, I'll hold up
so really interesting coverage in the Washington Post of some
(09:30):
new science about birth order. They mentioned that younger siblings
enjoy real advantages in life. Generally, the parents have more money,
more experiences. Parents. Older siblings can serve as role models, mentors,
productive rivals. You know, you play basketball against your older brother,
(09:50):
you're going to become a better basketball player. The ranks
of elite athletes are filled with many more younger siblings
than older brothers and sisters. There are a lot of
reasons why second born should do better, said this one
economics professor Brigham Young, but being born first is a
far better bet in life. The data shows. A landmark
(10:10):
study shows that younger siblings fare worse than first borns
on lifetime earnings, educational achievement, mental health, and for women
teen pregnancy. The later the birth order, the worst the
stats get. The youngest siblings get measurably less schooling than
the firstborn on average, but that only explained half of
the difference. The other half seems to be germs. They
(10:36):
followed one point two million Danish children born since nineteen
eighty into adulthood. The study found that the tiniest organisms
have a profound impact on a child's future. Exposure to
respiratory viruses before a baby's first birthday, when their immune
systems are immature, and before most childhood vaccinations consistently predicted
reduced earnings, education, and health decades later. Whoa illness, serious
(11:01):
respiratory illness, and you're more likely to get them if
you're the third child, or not just not the first,
because the first one is off at school or daycare whatever.
Bringing bugs home that doesn't happen to the firstborn kid. Wow,
this is going to come up with Thanksgiving. My younger brother,
(11:22):
thanks for bringing all those germs home. Yeah, way to go,
jermy boy.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I could get into the details of this, but they
said that data was absolutely clear. Earnings, education, mental health
outcomes all declined as community disease exposure rose. Now, these
are averages across populations. So the adult incomes fell by
nearly one percent, high school and college graduation dropped by
(11:48):
about half a percent. Psychiatric clinic visits arise by about
six percent above the baseline rate. Blah blah blah. And
they say those numbers might appear trivial, but their averages
across the entire population. Blah, blah blah. So this is
interesting from a scientific perspective, but a couple of caveats.
Number one, you know, try to keep your kid reasonably healthy,
(12:09):
do what you want, but to get the vaccinations against
scary stuff. They've performed miracles, saved kids' lives. Second thing is,
and this is the part I didn't want to get
to prematurely. You get dealt the cards, you get dealt.
We've lost that bad rock belief as human beings because
a grievance culture and the narcissism of small distinctions. Nobody
(12:31):
cares that you got, you know, eighty eight percent of
the good luck when somebody else got ninety one percent.
It's what you do with it that matters. In the
game and play, that's the only thing that matters. Yeah,
the whole one thing I had never for whatever reason,
had never really occurred to me to the other day
till somebody brought it up is if you're the oldest,
(12:52):
you grew up in the household of the full number
of your family for your whole life till you left.
Where's the youngest In some cases, depending on how spread
out they are, was an only child through high school
or or longer. Like my younger brother, which would have
been a completely different sitting down to the family table
(13:12):
with nobody else there than when I was in high
school and it was five of us. I had never
really thought about that before, right, yeah, yeah, Oh, there
was one more thing that I just thought was interesting
because since Judy got pregnant with Kate many years ago,
I've been fascinated by prenatal development, specifically neural development. Serious
(13:34):
illness is in early childhood can derail grain bait. Obviously,
it's derailed mind, can derail brain growth and cast a
long shadow on later life. In the first months of life,
roughly eighty five percent of an infant's calorie intake goes
toward neural development. Isn't that amazing? So speed your child
(13:55):
as your recommendation that absolute, as non negotiable. A serious
infection can reduce how much baby eats and divert calories
away from building a brain. The thing you know the most,
and we've talked about this and less lay and everybody knows, well,
everybody who's a parent knows this. You don't know this
till your parent completely is how different they are. They're
so incredibly different, They have such a different tool set
(14:20):
to go out into the world with some of it
you know, better than their siblings, some of it worse,
and you go out there with what you got and
you know, make your way. But it just that's that's
what the blows your mind. And that's why you can't
react to studies like this with a wait a minute,
wait a minute, my little brother's a genius and highly
(14:40):
successful and blah blah blah. Yeah, it's these are averages
across populations. Your family could be completely the opposite of
everything that is indicated by the averages. So we did
have a helicopter crash near the Strait of or Moves.
The pilots are fine, thank goodness. But the fact that
we're this far into the war and haven't lost more
(15:02):
guys or women is partially miraculous, and partially to the
fact that we stopped the war fairly quickly and haven't
really engaged since for better or worse, and I'm leaning
toward worse. We got more on that coming up a
little a little later with some of the quotes that
(15:24):
Trump has put out today on this thing is going
to wrap up soon, which he has been saying now
for quite a while. Oh a little later on the hour,
I'd like to get to a really good analysis of
is California's election rigged? The answer is there's no proof
that it is, but boy, they leave open a lot
of area of doubt. I'm a pretty hard no on
(15:45):
is it rigged? But yeah, it certainly doesn't. You don't
do yourself any favors by dragging it out over a
month like we got. There's a I mentioned this last week.
There's a close vote on a measure in the burg
that I live in. There is it's a billion dollars
at stake, and they're still counting the votes and it's
like four hundred votes apart on whether or not a
(16:08):
billion dollars get spent or not on this big housing development.
How could you possibly expect that there isn't somebody somewhere
who's trying to influence that when you got that much
money on the line, that's defying human nature. I'm a
little surprised to hear you say hard no. I'm agnostic
on the question because I don't think it's knowable. I've
(16:30):
designed a stadium where we don't check the tickets, and
then you ask me how many people snuck in without tickets.
I don't know, there's no mechanism. There's not an adequate
mechanism to check it. Yeah, I just I'm not concerned
that our guy Spencer Pratt got screwed by cheating on
the voting. I think it's just LA is eighty four
(16:51):
percent of votes Democrat. This is the result you should get. Yes,
that is definitely part of the reality, which is damn
mad I'm not claiming it's not maddening. How bad would
it have to get before you'd want to try something different?
That's what's amazing, just for a few years, right, Wow,
all right, if you miss a segment of the podcast
(17:12):
Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Where in the final throes of what will be a
very very good deal that will not allow in any way,
shape or form, nuclear weapons, etc. And then this straight
will open up right away. It'll open up immediately upon signing,
which could be in two or three days.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well, I want that to be true. There is zero
I'm not the mainstream media who is Trump said without
evidence regularly on stuff all time. But I'm gonna say
it here. Trump said without any evidence that I can
see anywhere, and I mean anywhere that this is going
to be over a couple of days. They're not going
(17:56):
to get a nuke in the street, will be open.
Have you come across any evidence of that being true
in any journalism anywhere. I haven't, no other than the
occasional comment by like an Ian Bremer on Twitter or
something that he's hearing dot but I've heard that multiple
times now. I hardly even pay attention to that sort
of pronouncement by Trump at this point. But like in
(18:16):
the last twenty four hours, because this is a new
thing from Trump that it's very very close in just
a couple of days now, I haven't seen that reported
by anybody, like any opinion piece, even right right. I
was thinking about this earlier, and this thought occurred to
me with greater clarity than it has before. Iran is
absolutely hell bent and obsessed with killing all the Jews
(18:39):
and wiping Israel off of the map. So you can
either give them that in negotiations or any other agreement
they come to is just a head fake, because they
will continue doing their most sacred duty is that they
see it. Yeah, I hope Trump is right about that.
By the way, He's got some behind the scenes him
(19:01):
and Jared Kushner and whoever working in Marco Rubio, and
they're gonna announce something. I hope that's what happens, and
I'll be very happy about that. But like I said,
I haven't even seen an opinion piece where they say
it's going to happen, let alone any factual reporting about it.
But I had one other thing. Maybe I'll think of it. Well,
Tree Yankst of Fox. Lets us know where we are now.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
After President Trump called on Israel and Iran to stop shooting,
both sides agreed. Since then, Israel has continued to operate
against Iran back Hesbelah in Lebanon, launching new strikes overnight
and issuing fresh evacuation orders this morning. Prime Minister Benjamint
Yahu addressed his country overnight with a message about Hesbola
by Mama.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
In the past twenty four hours, Iron and Hesbela tried
to impose a new equation on us. This equation is
intolerable and unacceptable to me. They thought they could fire
from Lebanese and Iranian territory at Israel and that we
would not act. That did not happen, and that will
not happen.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
If I'm BB Netan Yahoo, and I'm his age and
his point in everything in life. I just finish off
hesbelow once and for all.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
The world be damned with their opinion, right, I would agree.
We can get more into that situation if you want.
The absolutely unholy situation in Lebanon. As I mentioned earlier,
the Lebanese Army is the third most powerful force in
that country after the Israelis and Hesbela. It's a shell
of a country. It's always on the brink of civil war.
(20:27):
Sectarian religious violence is just a way of life there
since you know, ages ago, the eighties, I guess as
to the Strait of Horror Moves, which is why your
gas is so expensive. The reporter goes on with.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Questions about if the seasfire could be broken again. International
attention remains on the Strait of Horne Moves, where the
US naval blockade if Iranian ports.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Is expected to continue.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Sentcom says US forces disabled an unladened oil tanker in
the Gulf of Oman on Monday after it tried to
breach the blockade, and FA eighteen super Hornet from the
USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into the ship's
engineering and steering rooms. Now, since the blockade went into effect,
one hundred and thirty four vessels have been turned around,
(21:09):
with seven disabled.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It doesn't sound a lot like progress. The headline one
of the opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal today,
Israel fights while Trump talks. The US demands more restraint
from An ally than it does from Iran. More talk
about Israel needs to stop attacking than Iran needs to
stop attacking. Yeah, let me quote frequent correspondent JT who
(21:37):
dropped us a note. Trump keeps attacking the good side
quote unquote, in his belief that doing so will a
facilitated deal. The case of Russia, Trump kept accusing Zelensky
of being the stumbling block to the deal. You don't
have any cards. Do you even own a suit? While
echoing Putin's talking points. Trump is now attacking Nettnyal who
accusing him of scuttling a deal with Iran because of
Israel's attacks on Hesbla, and Trump is echoing Iran's talking
(21:59):
points in the Iran deal is linked to Israel not
attacking Hesbelah. Trump seems oblivious to the psychopathy of Putin
and Putin's willingness to absorb massive losses. Likewise, Trump seems
oblivious to the nature of the death cult, of Iran's
particular form of Islamism, and the willingness of Iran to
absorb endless pain on the part of the civilian Iranian population.
I agree latly, we all have blind spots because of
(22:21):
our life history, and I find that so interesting. And
Trump seems to be because his whole life he's dealt
with people where the goal was making the most money,
whether it was you know, a guy who owned land
or a hotel or a mobster or whoever it was.
(22:42):
I need to make a certain amount of money, then
we make a deal. And because that's been everything is
entire life, he assumes that's still true with like Putin
and Mulla's and can't wrap his head around the fact
that for some people that's not the end all be
all of their goals. Some people want dead Jews, some
people want to go down in history is Peter the
Great more than they want to, you know, come out
(23:05):
financially ahead, or save lives or help their people have happier,
productive lives. You Yeah, there is a real belief that
Iran's latest moves, the ramped up attacks by Hezbollah and
lobbing missiles at Israel at Kuwait, which we haven't even
talked about. They've launched a bunch of attacks in the region.
(23:26):
They've told the hu Thies, hey, go ahead and jump ugly.
A lot of folks are saying Iran is thinking, you know,
now's the time we're on the front foot. Let's assert
our power more in the region. Let's collect more power
to ourselves, you know. And you can throw Trump's name
in it or leave it out. But obviously Nettan Yahu
(23:46):
and Israel are saying, that's the last thing that's going
to happen here, the last thing on earth. Before we
move on to a different topic, would you like to
make any sort of prediction of where you think this
is going. I don't have any idea, uh, and what
length of time where we talked about like the near term,
this week or ultimately ultimately not ultimately, like a thousand
(24:11):
years from now. But oh, I was gonna go with
the thousand fi year. Yes, our robot orphan lord's harvesting
our organs. Of course, that's everything. A thousand years from now,
a I will open the street and build a data center. Gosh,
I don't want to let my wishes be the father
of my thoughts. I would think that the duplicity and
unwillingness to reach a deal that anybody could accept by
(24:32):
Tehran is finally going to piss off Trump and maybe
he'll do what needs to be done. I don't just
at least free Israel to do what needs to be done.
I don't. I'm very, very discouraged by the shape of
this now for a couple of months, right, yeah, I
(24:54):
mean it's just the same old We're working on a deal.
It's close, very close. Hey, bbe stop bombing the below
when they lob missiles at your people in your very capital,
stop stop stop, because we're almost at a deal. Please,
Hu either got to be willing to finish it hard,
(25:15):
do the ugly thing, or it ain't gonna work out positive.
I don't think an order without a sanction is merely
a suggestion. Briefly, since I mentioned AI and data centers,
did you see that stuff Elon said yesterday about building
the power plants and everything on the moon. I did
not know he thinks on a plane that just the
(25:38):
rest of us aren't thinking about at all. It was
a interview with somebody, and I didn't understand most of it,
but the main gist was planet Earth can produce a
maximum amount of power that he has figured out because
of various constraints of gravity, economics, climates, all kinds of
(26:04):
different things. And he had the number like in one
terra trillion watts of power to run all these data
centers because AI uses up so much energy, and the
ability to do it on the Moon is something like
a thousand times greater than anything Earth could ever produce.
And that's why he's working on right now getting to
(26:27):
the Moon in fairly short time and in space and
building these power plants that will be data centers for
a I know, and then and that's how we're going
to get to Mars and blah blah blah exponentially faster.
But just who's thinking about that? That he can only
produce so much power on Earth and we're gonna produce
it on the Moon so that we can take the
next step of Yeah, whether for good or ill, he
(26:49):
is a visionary. Absolutely, I can't even I'm a guy
who couldn't help my sun craft a decent Pinewood Derby car.
So the technology necessary to accomplish all of that to
say it boggles my mind. As an understatement, it's like
calculus to a golden retriever. But it's it's amazing or
and just his goals though, who's thinking about these things?
(27:11):
He could easily end up being the most important person
unless you're religious, and you're gonna go with Jesus the
most important person that's ever lived. If he makes us
a multi planetary species, which is his coal, certainly be
up there. Yeah, you need a gold statue of him somewhere.
(27:34):
Can we return to the Middle East just for a
moment if you want to? And you know, I don't
mind that transition because, like I always say, when we
start talking about AI this or that or the pecuring
these disease or whatever, Meanwhile over here you got people
who are willing to cut your head off because of
a religion. So that ain't changed. Yeah, Rather than rushing
(27:55):
through this, why don't we put it off for a
segment or two. But you hear about Lebanon and Hezbalon
a lot in relation to the discussion we've just been having.
I want to dig into that situation a little more
so folks understand it. I have got such a great
tease here, gallup is out with their latest and I
didn't even know they did this every year Americans' views
(28:18):
of morally acceptable behaviors. They have twenty behaviors that human
beings engage in, and whether or not we think they're
moral or not, and then the shifting numbers for some
of them over the years. Yeah, I've talked about a
subset of those results earlier, but yeah, I'd like to
hear the broad array. We're not as open minded about
trans stuff as we were five years ago. Far from it.
(28:41):
Tell you that, among other things, we'll get to stay
right here. Please.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
This year, we're taking a big step expanding our child
safety features.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Apple is rolling out a major software update with new
parental controls.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We're giving parents powerful, easy to use tools to help
manage what kids can see, who they can talk to,
and when they have access. Oh boy, man, if you
got kids and they got smartphones, especially if they're teenagers,
you only think about this every day because they walk
(29:23):
around with the worst neighborhood on planet Earth in their
hand in a way that was never possible before, and
are remarkably clever at getting around any senses that are
put up. When I was in high school living in
gladess living in small town western Kansas. I mean there
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were there there were people around that did bad things,
and I'm sure there were people that around that did
like pretty pretty bad things. But my dad had a
pretty good idea of who I was going to be
in communication with on a daily basis. Yeah, and it
would have been hard for me to run into a
lot of those people as a fifteen year old, whereas
(30:10):
now my sixteen year old could be talking to a
guy who will sell them a machine gun and Heroin
today easily, or groom them for god knows what. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well the scumbags and perverts have gotten systematic with it.
They know how to troll, how to you know, sort
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through many many young people online and find would be
victims in a way that it was impossible in like
personal interchange for all of human history. Let's go on
with this report from CBS News about Apple's new software.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple said it's expanding child
accounts required for kids under thirteen, limiting adult websites, and
setting age specific restrictions any app store apples, as parents
will be able to decide who kids can talk to
in I message and FaceTime, limit how much time can
be spent in specific apps, and extend.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Or pause device use entirely. That's the one that I
do because that's the one where I'm pretty sure. I
know they shut off completely at a certain time, and
I'm pretty positive at that point I got control of you.
But any of the other hours where you're on your phone,
I don't know if any of that other stuff is work.
I'm practically to the point of why do I even try,
(31:31):
based on things I've learned in the last six months
from my son and other parents of there's just so
many ways around all these things, and whichever one you
find out about, there's probably one hundred more. Right, whether
it's proxy websites or VPNs or whatever. They can ask
who they are the kids. Yeah, here's a little more
(31:52):
from that report.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
This comes as new research out today suggest that by
age thirteen, teens may be more emotionally ready to receive
their first smartphone without it automatically harming their mental health.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I think it's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Thorn Klosowski is a privacy expert at the nonprofit Electronic
Frontier Foundation. Kids are known to get around parental controls.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Are these foolproof. No, they never are.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
And that's kind of why the conversation is really an
important part here. Parents need to know that these tools exist,
they need to know how to use them, and they
need to know the kind of barriers that exist around them.
There's not like a really like silver bullet here that's
going to like magically fix this problem for everyone. I
think it's going to have to be a kind of
discussion that parents have with their kids, with the device makers,
ensuring that this, like Foster's a place where kids can
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still be kids.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
At thirteen, you're emotionally ready for a smartphone. You're not
emotionally ready for a smartphone when you're fifty. By the
way it alters your life, Why do they do these studies?
Ask anybody who use a phone right? Studies have found
they're a distraction in the classroom. Studies have found why anybody?
(33:02):
Why is anybody spending any money doing these studies? We
all know this, Michael. More importantly, that expert's name was Thorn.
If my name was Thorn, do you think I could
get away with going as Thor? Ask? Can people call
me Thor? Yeah? That'd be good, because that's what I
would do. That's my plan? Do you and I carry
a hammer?
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I was gonna say, do you want every single person
to constantly say where's your hammer? And deal with that
the rest of your life? I don't. Well, you're right
the downside. I hadn't thought the downside of being named
thor glad I brought it? Okay? One more clip from
this report can new parental.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Controls will roll out in September. This as Apple also
unveils Serie AI, a long awaited update to that conversational
back and forth with a personal assistant that they have there.
And after all of these announcements, just hours later, Rival
Open AI declaring it plans to take that company public.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And of course you could go on chat GPT and say,
how do I get around the new Apple parenial controls
as a thirteen year old? And it will tell you
and then you'll do it. I mean, I'm I don't
want to. I'm glad Apple's trying. I'm all for trying, sure,
but I do feel like I just have to accept
(34:15):
and hope by constantly telling my kids, you know, don't
buy drugs from strangers, and don't do this, don't do
that that it sinks in because I don't have any
belief I can stop them from being in contact with
this stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have to deal with
this as a parent of kids, so it's it's tough
for me to even talk about it. But to your point,
(34:37):
you work constantly to install and instill the principles that
will help them avoid the worst harms because this specific
like you know, ability to look at porner or ugly
porn or really too much porn at all is bad,
but it's it's just so difficult to limit that. I'm
(34:59):
to the point now where if we can sign an
agreement that all you do is look at porn and
nothing else, I'm in go ahead. It's gonna be bad
for your life, and you know, everybody will get an direction,
but that's better than a lot of the other stuff
that's out there that you could get into. Wow, it's
a hell of a deal. It is a hell of
a deal. Apple from the Tree of Knowledge, folks, I
(35:21):
stand by my my theory. Any comments text line four
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The President has attended major sporting events before as commander
in chief, and he was a courtside regular as a
New York businessman, but his presidence here tonight and all
the security of rings as any fans crying foul.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, they already hate Trump. But I got admit, if
it was anybody take politics out of it completely, as
a fan, I would be thinking, do you really need
to come? Given what this does to well? Let Edokeef
of CBS News lay out what it was like for
people getting into the game.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, the real actions on the court tonight. Hundreds of
Secret Service and a thousand NYPD are also suiting up
part of a massive security plan to protect the president.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
A long time New York Knicks.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Fan, if you are not going to the game, we're
asking you to avoid the area around Madison Square Garden tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
A five block perimeter around Madison Square Garden is shut down.
Ticket Holders are being asked to show up at least
two hours early. The game comes a day after Five
people were stabbed in Penn Station just below the Garden,
one seriously injured.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's its own story. We need to talk about that later.
Guy that had stabbed people years ago, loose on the
street stabbing more people. Anyway, Well, what's your thoughts on
that you got a grudge against a president showing up
to an event you want to go to. I mean,
because they don't need to be there. Now, I'm gonna
put my fairness hat on. Think about if I was,
if I had to deal with all that crap because
(01:47):
Biden wanted to make a briefish appearance, say you're Obama.
I don't think it's politics. So there's no political advantage
for Trump being there? Is there? I wanted to go.
He flung New York, and he grew up in New York,
and he's a knicks man. I think that's what it
was about. Yeah, yeah, I'd probably bitch about it, but
I wouldn't worry about it that much. Now, if I
(02:09):
was going to the three hour line three hour line
to get into the game, I'm an older man. I
might need to have like an empty milk jog. Yeah,
a point on it. But yeah, yeah, if you were
used to going to those viewing parties right outside the garden,
which sound like just a great time. Yeah, yeah, I
would resent that some that those were closed down. So
(02:32):
the booing might have been It's a democratic city in
the same way that La no matter what happens, as
we just saw, is going to vote for a Democrat.
New York's kind of that way. And so then i't
like Trump anyway. And then you waited in line for
three hours. That does not exactly set up the mood
of the crowd to cheer you when they were in
(02:53):
line for three hours to get in to sit in
there somewhere between seven thousand and a million dollars seat jikes. Anyways,
during the national anthem that they put Trump up on
the screen, and is there some cheering? Yeah, there's some.
(03:19):
I would have called it because I was watching it live.
Sixty five thirty five two thirds a third who cares? Oh,
it doesn't matter. That's a meaningless thing, far from the
greatest challenge the Republic is facing. I at the present moment,
I couldn't stop just trying to recognize people in the
front row every time there was a player, a timeout
or whatever. And I was wondering do do those people like,
(03:42):
had they ever met before? Do they know each other?
Or do you become friends? Or like now that Chalomey
and Spike Lee are high fiven or had they ever
met before the Knicks thing got out of got on hand?
Or Ben Still or how about uh Ram Emmanuel and
Larry David. That was a good pairing right there. I
(04:04):
don't know if they'd ever met before, but man, they're
other and so I really full disclosure, I'm just not
an NBA fan at this point in my life, and
I didn't watch the game, but I was caught. I
was intrigued by the fact that what is her name?
The actress she was on one of the police procedures
for years market hagetary or what do you know the
(04:26):
woman I'm talking about, Michael right, what the hell's her name?
Is it Marisia? Or no, no, no, I know who
you're talking about. Assume it's to celebrity. It's a woman. Yeah,
Well I just said she was on a police procedural
that was a super big hit for a long time.
Market anyway, she was in the front row, and I'm like,
really really, yeah, she's starring in a new show I
(04:47):
think on Broadway. It's her rival or something. Riska that's it. Yeah,
Mriska hargitay. Uh, that's a billboard. They bought a billboard
for the show. Oh, they're at Courtside. That's a good airsporis.
Argidage's starring in the new revival of whatever the hell.
It's like buying an ad brigadoon. Yeah. Mostly it's super
(05:10):
rich people. So I'm assuming that Tracy Morgan who won
ninety million dollars because that Walmart truck hit him and
almost killed him. So he's among the super rich, and
he's at all the Knicks games. He was sitting in
the front row with Tina Feye next to him. I
wonder if he went ahead and comm you know, said out,
you come to the game with me. They started together
(05:31):
back on thirty Rock together, worked exactly in that live
truly funny show The Rama Manual Larry David Robert Kraft.
Three people in a row, like, I don't know if
they're friends or if they'd met for the first time
there at the gar Oh hey, you know, i'd be
just kind of a weird oh hey moment, just like
somebody you've seen on to Oh hey, you're the guy
that owns the Patriots. Oh you're the guy that might
(05:52):
be the next president, Nia shak hands. I would wait
three hours in line to overhear their conversation. No kidding,
that's an interesting grouping all the way around. It was
that way everywhere. Man. The coolest one though, was I'd
become I'm kind of a Jalen Brunson fanboy, even though
I'm rooting for the Spurs. Got into him last year.
He is some super stud performer. But anyway, he had
(06:12):
some amazing clutch plays last night with the crowd going
crazy and everything like that. And they go over to
also in the front row, Derek Jeter sitting with Eli
Manning high fiving. I thought, there is some guys that
understand what it's like to be in front of that
crowd and perform. Well, right, pressure, that was a cool
group right there. Coming up, your birth order affects your future,
(06:32):
but not for the reason you think, Jack, How do
I always respond to a headline like that? How do
you know what I think? But really interesting science about
birth order? Holy cat? You think? Okay, well I'll have
to hear this. Oh are you a scientist? Are you
answered the question? He's not answering, folks, I could be
(06:56):
in Congress and do one of those hearings. Yeah, I know,
exactly answer the question. I'm trying to you a question.
Every time I start dance, I reclaim my time, yes,
and then you yell I reclaimed my time, and nobody
knows what that means, so you stop talking. No way
to run a republic, folks. I had one other thing
(07:17):
I wanted to tease before we got going. Oh Apple,
The Apple Update seria is completely different.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I haven't tried it yet, but the new AI series.
Some people are saying it's really fantastic. But more important
than that, they announced a whole bunch of new parental
controls that I'm super into as a guy who's got
a couple of teen boys with iPhones that will We'll
update you on that whole thing too. And we got
to get into the Iran war at some point. Trump
(07:45):
making some pretty big claims today that it could be
over in a matter of days. I feel like I've
heard this a few times, not exactly sure what he's
trying to accomplish with those promises at this point and
who he's putting pressure on host again, Echoes of the
Ukraine Russia thing? Who's the roadblock to an agreement? Here? Again?
(08:07):
Donald J? Is it really is? Is it really is real?
We'll talk about it, all right. We got a lot
on the way. Stay here. Trump in New York City
Mayor Zorin Mamdani was also at the game. The guy
in charge of the kiss cam was like, should I
(08:32):
could be fun.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Out of it?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I didn't get that joke, right, We didn't get it either, Michael, Yeah,
what's the what's the joke there? Michael? Oh, you're running
kiss cam?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
You're supposed to you put the kiss cam on Mandami
and who he's supposed to kiss?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The person next him or whatever? Man, I still don't
understand that. What It doesn't matter. But the communist came
on him. Mndami spend one thousand dollars for standing room
only tickets to try to be a regular working class guy.
I guess, I guess all right, Jack, you are the
(09:08):
oldest sibling in your family, correct. I am I am
a three, I am a middle child, the middle of three.
And I must say I've never put much stock in
birth order. No, no, I you know, I don't want
to jump to the conclusion, but well, I'll hold up
so really interesting coverage in the Washington Post of some
(09:30):
new science about birth order. They mentioned that younger siblings
enjoy real advantages in life. Generally, the parents have more money,
more experiences. Parents. Older siblings can serve as role models, mentors,
productive rivals. You know, you play basketball against your older brother,
(09:50):
you're going to become a better basketball player. The ranks
of elite athletes are filled with many more younger siblings
than older brothers and sisters. There are a lot of
reasons why second born should do better, said this one
economics professor Brigham Young, but being born first is a
far better bet in life. The data shows. A landmark
(10:10):
study shows that younger siblings fare worse than first borns
on lifetime earnings, educational achievement, mental health, and for women
teen pregnancy. The later the birth order, the worst the
stats get. The youngest siblings get measurably less schooling than
the firstborn on average, but that only explained half of
the difference. The other half seems to be germs. They
(10:36):
followed one point two million Danish children born since nineteen
eighty into adulthood. The study found that the tiniest organisms
have a profound impact on a child's future. Exposure to
respiratory viruses before a baby's first birthday, when their immune
systems are immature, and before most childhood vaccinations consistently predicted
reduced earnings, education, and health decades later. Whoa illness, serious
(11:01):
respiratory illness, and you're more likely to get them if
you're the third child, or not just not the first,
because the first one is off at school or daycare whatever.
Bringing bugs home that doesn't happen to the firstborn kid. Wow,
this is going to come up with Thanksgiving. My younger brother,
(11:22):
thanks for bringing all those germs home. Yeah, way to go,
jermy boy.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I could get into the details of this, but they
said that data was absolutely clear. Earnings, education, mental health
outcomes all declined as community disease exposure rose. Now, these
are averages across populations. So the adult incomes fell by
nearly one percent, high school and college graduation dropped by
(11:48):
about half a percent. Psychiatric clinic visits arise by about
six percent above the baseline rate. Blah blah blah. And
they say those numbers might appear trivial, but their averages
across the entire population. Blah, blah blah. So this is
interesting from a scientific perspective, but a couple of caveats.
Number one, you know, try to keep your kid reasonably healthy,
(12:09):
do what you want, but to get the vaccinations against
scary stuff. They've performed miracles, saved kids' lives. Second thing is,
and this is the part I didn't want to get
to prematurely. You get dealt the cards, you get dealt.
We've lost that bad rock belief as human beings because
a grievance culture and the narcissism of small distinctions. Nobody
(12:31):
cares that you got, you know, eighty eight percent of
the good luck when somebody else got ninety one percent.
It's what you do with it that matters. In the
game and play, that's the only thing that matters. Yeah,
the whole one thing I had never for whatever reason,
had never really occurred to me to the other day
till somebody brought it up is if you're the oldest,
(12:52):
you grew up in the household of the full number
of your family for your whole life till you left.
Where's the youngest In some cases, depending on how spread
out they are, was an only child through high school
or or longer. Like my younger brother, which would have
been a completely different sitting down to the family table
(13:12):
with nobody else there than when I was in high
school and it was five of us. I had never
really thought about that before, right, yeah, yeah, Oh, there
was one more thing that I just thought was interesting
because since Judy got pregnant with Kate many years ago,
I've been fascinated by prenatal development, specifically neural development. Serious
(13:34):
illness is in early childhood can derail grain bait. Obviously,
it's derailed mind, can derail brain growth and cast a
long shadow on later life. In the first months of life,
roughly eighty five percent of an infant's calorie intake goes
toward neural development. Isn't that amazing? So speed your child
(13:55):
as your recommendation that absolute, as non negotiable. A serious
infection can reduce how much baby eats and divert calories
away from building a brain. The thing you know the most,
and we've talked about this and less lay and everybody knows, well,
everybody who's a parent knows this. You don't know this
till your parent completely is how different they are. They're
so incredibly different, They have such a different tool set
(14:20):
to go out into the world with some of it
you know, better than their siblings, some of it worse,
and you go out there with what you got and
you know, make your way. But it just that's that's
what the blows your mind. And that's why you can't
react to studies like this with a wait a minute,
wait a minute, my little brother's a genius and highly
(14:40):
successful and blah blah blah. Yeah, it's these are averages
across populations. Your family could be completely the opposite of
everything that is indicated by the averages. So we did
have a helicopter crash near the Strait of or Moves.
The pilots are fine, thank goodness. But the fact that
we're this far into the war and haven't lost more
(15:02):
guys or women is partially miraculous, and partially to the
fact that we stopped the war fairly quickly and haven't
really engaged since for better or worse, and I'm leaning
toward worse. We got more on that coming up a
little a little later with some of the quotes that
(15:24):
Trump has put out today on this thing is going
to wrap up soon, which he has been saying now
for quite a while. Oh a little later on the hour,
I'd like to get to a really good analysis of
is California's election rigged? The answer is there's no proof
that it is, but boy, they leave open a lot
of area of doubt. I'm a pretty hard no on
(15:45):
is it rigged? But yeah, it certainly doesn't. You don't
do yourself any favors by dragging it out over a
month like we got. There's a I mentioned this last week.
There's a close vote on a measure in the burg
that I live in. There is it's a billion dollars
at stake, and they're still counting the votes and it's
like four hundred votes apart on whether or not a
(16:08):
billion dollars get spent or not on this big housing development.
How could you possibly expect that there isn't somebody somewhere
who's trying to influence that when you got that much
money on the line, that's defying human nature. I'm a
little surprised to hear you say hard no. I'm agnostic
on the question because I don't think it's knowable. I've
(16:30):
designed a stadium where we don't check the tickets, and
then you ask me how many people snuck in without tickets.
I don't know, there's no mechanism. There's not an adequate
mechanism to check it. Yeah, I just I'm not concerned
that our guy Spencer Pratt got screwed by cheating on
the voting. I think it's just LA is eighty four
(16:51):
percent of votes Democrat. This is the result you should get. Yes,
that is definitely part of the reality, which is damn
mad I'm not claiming it's not maddening. How bad would
it have to get before you'd want to try something different?
That's what's amazing, just for a few years, right, Wow,
all right, if you miss a segment of the podcast
(17:12):
Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Where in the final throes of what will be a
very very good deal that will not allow in any way,
shape or form, nuclear weapons, etc. And then this straight
will open up right away. It'll open up immediately upon signing,
which could be in two or three days.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well, I want that to be true. There is zero
I'm not the mainstream media who is Trump said without
evidence regularly on stuff all time. But I'm gonna say
it here. Trump said without any evidence that I can
see anywhere, and I mean anywhere that this is going
to be over a couple of days. They're not going
(17:56):
to get a nuke in the street, will be open.
Have you come across any evidence of that being true
in any journalism anywhere. I haven't, no other than the
occasional comment by like an Ian Bremer on Twitter or
something that he's hearing dot but I've heard that multiple
times now. I hardly even pay attention to that sort
of pronouncement by Trump at this point. But like in
(18:16):
the last twenty four hours, because this is a new
thing from Trump that it's very very close in just
a couple of days now, I haven't seen that reported
by anybody, like any opinion piece, even right right. I
was thinking about this earlier, and this thought occurred to
me with greater clarity than it has before. Iran is
absolutely hell bent and obsessed with killing all the Jews
(18:39):
and wiping Israel off of the map. So you can
either give them that in negotiations or any other agreement
they come to is just a head fake, because they
will continue doing their most sacred duty is that they
see it. Yeah, I hope Trump is right about that.
By the way, He's got some behind the scenes him
(19:01):
and Jared Kushner and whoever working in Marco Rubio, and
they're gonna announce something. I hope that's what happens, and
I'll be very happy about that. But like I said,
I haven't even seen an opinion piece where they say
it's going to happen, let alone any factual reporting about it.
But I had one other thing. Maybe I'll think of it. Well,
Tree Yankst of Fox. Lets us know where we are now.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
After President Trump called on Israel and Iran to stop shooting,
both sides agreed. Since then, Israel has continued to operate
against Iran back Hesbelah in Lebanon, launching new strikes overnight
and issuing fresh evacuation orders this morning. Prime Minister Benjamint
Yahu addressed his country overnight with a message about Hesbola
by Mama.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
In the past twenty four hours, Iron and Hesbela tried
to impose a new equation on us. This equation is
intolerable and unacceptable to me. They thought they could fire
from Lebanese and Iranian territory at Israel and that we
would not act. That did not happen, and that will
not happen.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
If I'm BB Netan Yahoo, and I'm his age and
his point in everything in life. I just finish off
hesbelow once and for all.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
The world be damned with their opinion, right, I would agree.
We can get more into that situation if you want.
The absolutely unholy situation in Lebanon. As I mentioned earlier,
the Lebanese Army is the third most powerful force in
that country after the Israelis and Hesbela. It's a shell
of a country. It's always on the brink of civil war.
(20:27):
Sectarian religious violence is just a way of life there
since you know, ages ago, the eighties, I guess as
to the Strait of Horror Moves, which is why your
gas is so expensive. The reporter goes on with.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Questions about if the seasfire could be broken again. International
attention remains on the Strait of Horne Moves, where the
US naval blockade if Iranian ports.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Is expected to continue.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Sentcom says US forces disabled an unladened oil tanker in
the Gulf of Oman on Monday after it tried to
breach the blockade, and FA eighteen super Hornet from the
USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into the ship's
engineering and steering rooms. Now, since the blockade went into effect,
one hundred and thirty four vessels have been turned around,
(21:09):
with seven disabled.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It doesn't sound a lot like progress. The headline one
of the opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal today,
Israel fights while Trump talks. The US demands more restraint
from An ally than it does from Iran. More talk
about Israel needs to stop attacking than Iran needs to
stop attacking. Yeah, let me quote frequent correspondent JT who
(21:37):
dropped us a note. Trump keeps attacking the good side
quote unquote, in his belief that doing so will a
facilitated deal. The case of Russia, Trump kept accusing Zelensky
of being the stumbling block to the deal. You don't
have any cards. Do you even own a suit? While
echoing Putin's talking points. Trump is now attacking Nettnyal who
accusing him of scuttling a deal with Iran because of
Israel's attacks on Hesbla, and Trump is echoing Iran's talking
(21:59):
points in the Iran deal is linked to Israel not
attacking Hesbelah. Trump seems oblivious to the psychopathy of Putin
and Putin's willingness to absorb massive losses. Likewise, Trump seems
oblivious to the nature of the death cult, of Iran's
particular form of Islamism, and the willingness of Iran to
absorb endless pain on the part of the civilian Iranian population.
I agree latly, we all have blind spots because of
(22:21):
our life history, and I find that so interesting. And
Trump seems to be because his whole life he's dealt
with people where the goal was making the most money,
whether it was you know, a guy who owned land
or a hotel or a mobster or whoever it was.
(22:42):
I need to make a certain amount of money, then
we make a deal. And because that's been everything is
entire life, he assumes that's still true with like Putin
and Mulla's and can't wrap his head around the fact
that for some people that's not the end all be
all of their goals. Some people want dead Jews, some
people want to go down in history is Peter the
Great more than they want to, you know, come out
(23:05):
financially ahead, or save lives or help their people have happier,
productive lives. You Yeah, there is a real belief that
Iran's latest moves, the ramped up attacks by Hezbollah and
lobbing missiles at Israel at Kuwait, which we haven't even
talked about. They've launched a bunch of attacks in the region.
(23:26):
They've told the hu Thies, hey, go ahead and jump ugly.
A lot of folks are saying Iran is thinking, you know,
now's the time we're on the front foot. Let's assert
our power more in the region. Let's collect more power
to ourselves, you know. And you can throw Trump's name
in it or leave it out. But obviously Nettan Yahu
(23:46):
and Israel are saying, that's the last thing that's going
to happen here, the last thing on earth. Before we
move on to a different topic, would you like to
make any sort of prediction of where you think this
is going. I don't have any idea, uh, and what
length of time where we talked about like the near term,
this week or ultimately ultimately not ultimately, like a thousand
(24:11):
years from now. But oh, I was gonna go with
the thousand fi year. Yes, our robot orphan lord's harvesting
our organs. Of course, that's everything. A thousand years from now,
a I will open the street and build a data center. Gosh,
I don't want to let my wishes be the father
of my thoughts. I would think that the duplicity and
unwillingness to reach a deal that anybody could accept by
(24:32):
Tehran is finally going to piss off Trump and maybe
he'll do what needs to be done. I don't just
at least free Israel to do what needs to be done.
I don't. I'm very, very discouraged by the shape of
this now for a couple of months, right, yeah, I
(24:54):
mean it's just the same old We're working on a deal.
It's close, very close. Hey, bbe stop bombing the below
when they lob missiles at your people in your very capital,
stop stop stop, because we're almost at a deal. Please,
Hu either got to be willing to finish it hard,
(25:15):
do the ugly thing, or it ain't gonna work out positive.
I don't think an order without a sanction is merely
a suggestion. Briefly, since I mentioned AI and data centers,
did you see that stuff Elon said yesterday about building
the power plants and everything on the moon. I did
not know he thinks on a plane that just the
(25:38):
rest of us aren't thinking about at all. It was
a interview with somebody, and I didn't understand most of it,
but the main gist was planet Earth can produce a
maximum amount of power that he has figured out because
of various constraints of gravity, economics, climates, all kinds of
(26:04):
different things. And he had the number like in one
terra trillion watts of power to run all these data
centers because AI uses up so much energy, and the
ability to do it on the Moon is something like
a thousand times greater than anything Earth could ever produce.
And that's why he's working on right now getting to
(26:27):
the Moon in fairly short time and in space and
building these power plants that will be data centers for
a I know, and then and that's how we're going
to get to Mars and blah blah blah exponentially faster.
But just who's thinking about that? That he can only
produce so much power on Earth and we're gonna produce
it on the Moon so that we can take the
next step of Yeah, whether for good or ill, he
(26:49):
is a visionary. Absolutely, I can't even I'm a guy
who couldn't help my sun craft a decent Pinewood Derby car.
So the technology necessary to accomplish all of that to
say it boggles my mind. As an understatement, it's like
calculus to a golden retriever. But it's it's amazing or
and just his goals though, who's thinking about these things?
(27:11):
He could easily end up being the most important person
unless you're religious, and you're gonna go with Jesus the
most important person that's ever lived. If he makes us
a multi planetary species, which is his coal, certainly be
up there. Yeah, you need a gold statue of him somewhere.
(27:34):
Can we return to the Middle East just for a
moment if you want to? And you know, I don't
mind that transition because, like I always say, when we
start talking about AI this or that or the pecuring
these disease or whatever, Meanwhile over here you got people
who are willing to cut your head off because of
a religion. So that ain't changed. Yeah, Rather than rushing
(27:55):
through this, why don't we put it off for a
segment or two. But you hear about Lebanon and Hezbalon
a lot in relation to the discussion we've just been having.
I want to dig into that situation a little more
so folks understand it. I have got such a great
tease here, gallup is out with their latest and I
didn't even know they did this every year Americans' views
(28:18):
of morally acceptable behaviors. They have twenty behaviors that human
beings engage in, and whether or not we think they're
moral or not, and then the shifting numbers for some
of them over the years. Yeah, I've talked about a
subset of those results earlier, but yeah, I'd like to
hear the broad array. We're not as open minded about
trans stuff as we were five years ago. Far from it.
(28:41):
Tell you that, among other things, we'll get to stay
right here. Please.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
This year, we're taking a big step expanding our child
safety features.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Apple is rolling out a major software update with new
parental controls.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We're giving parents powerful, easy to use tools to help
manage what kids can see, who they can talk to,
and when they have access. Oh boy, man, if you
got kids and they got smartphones, especially if they're teenagers,
you only think about this every day because they walk
(29:23):
around with the worst neighborhood on planet Earth in their
hand in a way that was never possible before, and
are remarkably clever at getting around any senses that are
put up. When I was in high school living in
gladess living in small town western Kansas. I mean there
(29:48):
were there there were people around that did bad things,
and I'm sure there were people that around that did
like pretty pretty bad things. But my dad had a
pretty good idea of who I was going to be
in communication with on a daily basis. Yeah, and it
would have been hard for me to run into a
lot of those people as a fifteen year old, whereas
(30:10):
now my sixteen year old could be talking to a
guy who will sell them a machine gun and Heroin
today easily, or groom them for god knows what. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well the scumbags and perverts have gotten systematic with it.
They know how to troll, how to you know, sort
(30:32):
through many many young people online and find would be
victims in a way that it was impossible in like
personal interchange for all of human history. Let's go on
with this report from CBS News about Apple's new software.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple said it's expanding child
accounts required for kids under thirteen, limiting adult websites, and
setting age specific restrictions any app store apples, as parents
will be able to decide who kids can talk to
in I message and FaceTime, limit how much time can
be spent in specific apps, and extend.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Or pause device use entirely. That's the one that I
do because that's the one where I'm pretty sure. I
know they shut off completely at a certain time, and
I'm pretty positive at that point I got control of you.
But any of the other hours where you're on your phone,
I don't know if any of that other stuff is work.
I'm practically to the point of why do I even try,
(31:31):
based on things I've learned in the last six months
from my son and other parents of there's just so
many ways around all these things, and whichever one you
find out about, there's probably one hundred more. Right, whether
it's proxy websites or VPNs or whatever. They can ask
who they are the kids. Yeah, here's a little more
(31:52):
from that report.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
This comes as new research out today suggest that by
age thirteen, teens may be more emotionally ready to receive
their first smartphone without it automatically harming their mental health.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I think it's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Thorn Klosowski is a privacy expert at the nonprofit Electronic
Frontier Foundation. Kids are known to get around parental controls.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Are these foolproof. No, they never are.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
And that's kind of why the conversation is really an
important part here. Parents need to know that these tools exist,
they need to know how to use them, and they
need to know the kind of barriers that exist around them.
There's not like a really like silver bullet here that's
going to like magically fix this problem for everyone. I
think it's going to have to be a kind of
discussion that parents have with their kids, with the device makers,
ensuring that this, like Foster's a place where kids can
(32:39):
still be kids.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
At thirteen, you're emotionally ready for a smartphone. You're not
emotionally ready for a smartphone when you're fifty. By the
way it alters your life, Why do they do these studies?
Ask anybody who use a phone right? Studies have found
they're a distraction in the classroom. Studies have found why anybody?
(33:02):
Why is anybody spending any money doing these studies? We
all know this, Michael. More importantly, that expert's name was Thorn.
If my name was Thorn, do you think I could
get away with going as Thor? Ask? Can people call
me Thor? Yeah? That'd be good, because that's what I
would do. That's my plan? Do you and I carry
a hammer?
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I was gonna say, do you want every single person
to constantly say where's your hammer? And deal with that
the rest of your life? I don't. Well, you're right
the downside. I hadn't thought the downside of being named
thor glad I brought it? Okay? One more clip from
this report can new parental.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Controls will roll out in September. This as Apple also
unveils Serie AI, a long awaited update to that conversational
back and forth with a personal assistant that they have there.
And after all of these announcements, just hours later, Rival
Open AI declaring it plans to take that company public.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And of course you could go on chat GPT and say,
how do I get around the new Apple parenial controls
as a thirteen year old? And it will tell you
and then you'll do it. I mean, I'm I don't
want to. I'm glad Apple's trying. I'm all for trying, sure,
but I do feel like I just have to accept
(34:15):
and hope by constantly telling my kids, you know, don't
buy drugs from strangers, and don't do this, don't do
that that it sinks in because I don't have any
belief I can stop them from being in contact with
this stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have to deal with
this as a parent of kids, so it's it's tough
for me to even talk about it. But to your point,
(34:37):
you work constantly to install and instill the principles that
will help them avoid the worst harms because this specific
like you know, ability to look at porner or ugly
porn or really too much porn at all is bad,
but it's it's just so difficult to limit that. I'm
(34:59):
to the point now where if we can sign an
agreement that all you do is look at porn and
nothing else, I'm in go ahead. It's gonna be bad
for your life, and you know, everybody will get an direction,
but that's better than a lot of the other stuff
that's out there that you could get into. Wow, it's
a hell of a deal. It is a hell of
a deal. Apple from the Tree of Knowledge, folks, I
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