December 23, 2024 • 30 mins
Justin Hart of Newzy.com joins Kira for a light-hearted discussion on how we can use AI for a lot more than defeating humanity. Newzy.com has launched its own AI, Arthur, who is designed to write parody and satire as well as curate news articles. Is AI frightening or fun? According to Justin, there’s way more fun available than people think. See Newzy’s recent election video “Babies for Trump” https://newzy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/justinhart.bizs-Video-Oct-9-2024-VEED-2.mp4
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be okay. Well, hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode
of Just Listen to Yourself. This is your host, Kira Davis.
This is a podcast where we take hot topics, hot
button ideas, and we discuss the talking points on those topics,
and we drill down on those talking points all the
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way out to their logical conclusion. But today's a jail
t y plus. So this is when I get to
invite a friend to come in. We talk about all
kinds of other things, whatever we feel like it. And
today I'm really excited to bring on the show. Actually,
a longtime friend of mine, somebody I've known forever in
this business, and I've known his wife forever as well,
Justin Hart. Justin Hart is a long time Republican consultant
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and strategist. He is also an online activist Justin is
from right here in California, and his work during COVID
was amazing. Justin was drilling down on the numbers. He
was pressing the California Health Department. He was giving all
those stats, all those charts that you saw told you
that your leadership was lying to you. Justin was the
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person disseminating a lot of that information. So Justin, it's
really good to see you. Welcome to the show, Gia.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Great to be on your show.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thanks for having me again.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And yeah, that was quite the time during COVID. But
now on the bigger and better things. This is kind
of a fun little project that we've been working on.
The website, as you can see behind me is newsy
dot com. This is going to be a parody website,
but it's going to be satire too, and I'll tell
you why.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well wait, le back you up.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, go ahead, let's hear.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Let me back you up. Okay, So everybody, we're gonna
talk about AI today, and everybody knows, everybody listens to
the show, Justin knows. I'm a little bit nervous about AI.
I am not sure about how we're going to use it.
So before I let you tell us more about news
and what you guys are working on over there. I
do want to press you on AI. Let's hear it,
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because when I'm yeah, okay, so here's here's my thing,
and I'll let you respond. When I look at AI,
particularly as we've seen it used to this election cycle,
it seems to be causing a lot of controversy. It's
so ripe, it's so good, it's so ripe for fraud,
and we have this disinformation misinformation thing going on. And
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I know a lot of conservatives are shy about it
and we really want to stay away from it. I
know a lot of people do. I do, but that's
just because I'm fifty, I'm old, and I don't understand it.
I'm scared of things I don't understand. And here you are,
justin and I trust you. Know you're super conservative, you're
very intelligent. You're actually developing an AI product. So tell
me why I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Look, the main thing with AI is it's going to
get rid of all the boring stuff that you have
to do on a daily basis. Like imagine that you
never have to even call the DMV again. The AI
would do it for you. Represent your voice, yourself, have
all the information you need, and then get it done right.
That's kind of what it's like. You know, Kiri, you
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know me. But Jenny and I have kind of a
Brady Bunch family. Between the two of us, we have
nine kids. My oldest is thirty, my youngest is just
a year old, that little boy who's so cute. But
in order to get stuff done on my COVID blog,
my book follow ups, my radio show hits, and this
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new website that we're coming with, my goodness, I've got
to have time. And so AI basically allows me to
replicate everything I do on a regular basis. So, for example,
I go to my covid blog and say, I've got
a bunch of new numbers. I need you to sort
through these. I need you to tell me what to
make of these things. And literally that's what I tell it.
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I talk to it like it's a really, really smart intern,
and it comes back with say, well, here's six hundred
word blog posts that I think might work for you.
And then I said, that's fantastic. Hey, do you me
a favor. Do you think you could turn that into
a TikTok with nine x sixteen aspect ratio, video images
that would be appropriate, put a voiceover on it, put
some things on it. Boom, that's done as well. All
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of that compared to, for example, something like a podcast
or something that you do over these channels takes a
lot of time. It's a time saver. It's going to
be able to replicate everything you do times ten. That's
the good news. The bad news is, of course, it
can be challenging and it's going to you know, it's
going to have some issues where you're like, wow, it
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just did that, right. I'll give you a quick example.
In the AI space, they do a lot of simulations
in the government. They did a simular with these SAM
drone killers. Right, they want to kill these surface to
air missile sites that they would see, and so these
drones would go out and find the sites and they
powered it with AI. Now this was just a simulation,
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so it wasn't in a real time, but they powered
it with AI and they said, your instructions are to
go out find those SAM sites and then tell your
user that you found one, and he'll give you the
kill no kill order.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, the AI drone got so frustrated when the user
would say I don't want to kill it that the
drone turned around and killed the user so he could
go out and kill the SAM site.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
So those are.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Real situations where we need to be apprized on. Things
can get out of control. But for the most part,
it's going to be a brilliant tool that's going to
save everyone tons and tons of time and effort, and
it's going to boost creativity in a dramatic way. And
that was really sort of the genesis of this new
site we launched, because the cornerstone of it is doing
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really fun AI videos.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I like, well, I like that, and so the other thing,
I think, justin the other question as we move forward
to talking more about this website, is what about things
like deep fakes or what about you know, here in California,
you know, our governor so healthily passed that law or
executive order whatever you want to call it, banning deep fakes,
banning AI. And I feel like for a lot of us,
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I know, particularly on the right, we feel really burned
by technology and it's been used against sort of common
sense citizens in the past, and so it does feel
I mean again, I'm old, so I'm a gen X,
so I'm looking at you, knowing that you are, you know,
very dedicated GOP activists and activists for common sense, and
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I think, well, geez, justin you know, are you handing
us over to the enemy because it feels like AI
can be manipulated for so much.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It can be. But at the same time, you what
we found is that you can build your own AIS
on these things as well. So, for example, I use
this new Google tool which allows you to create a
fake podcast with two hosts and they sound very real,
but you basically feed it in information and instructions, and
I thought, you know what I'm Podcasts are great for
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people that learn via auditory senses like myself. And one
of the biggest documents out there that impacts all of
our lives is put out on a daily basis is
the Federal Register, this terrible three hundred to five hundred
page document the government puts out in a PDF every
single weekday that tells you what all these terrible nonsense,
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you know, administrations are doing all of the things, you know,
the little shrimp that has to run on the treadmill
that we paid one hundred thousand dollars for or whatever.
All of it is in there. But it's so inaccessible.
So now on a daily basis, I have on my
substack a podcast that go out where you can listen
to a fifteen minute summary of the Federal Register, keeping
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in mind as an attitude that we're looking for government
overreach and waste. That's something I think that's really accessible.
That takes me about twenty minutes a day to do.
And there you go, right, So it's another content channel
that you can put out there and make something more accessible.
That's that's where the prime of this is going to
be really felt. I think the challenges are going to
be on the edges, but they're also gonna, you know,
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be kind of fun. We'll have to see how it
comes out.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Okay, so I would not have you again as I
By the way, you're justin, what's your main sub seconds?
You've got a couple I looked them up. Let's make sure.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well, the covidreason dot substack dot com is where you
can find most of my stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You should definitely go over there and look at it.
Like I said, a lot of the charts numbers you
were probably sharing through COVID, a lot of them probably
came through justin. So definitely go check that out, so
that fascinating stuff. Actually, I'm really glad we're talking about this.
So I wouldn't look at you, or wouldn't have ever
looked at you and said, Okay, I'm just gonna move
into AI, moving into the future. I would have thought
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of you at a think tank, write in white papers,
out there, gathering the COVID numbers for us, sue in
the government, all that stuff. Why Newsy, Why I've got
a really good funny bone that I need to itch
a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
This is something where I've been doing, you know, satire
and parody my entire career in politics. In fact, I
think here when we first you know, got together and
knew each other was when I was running Chuck Devor's
campaign here in California ten years ago with Barbara Boxer.
And if you remember, we had a lot of fun
online and that got us in a lot of trouble too.
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Don Henley sued us for our parody song that we did.
All she wants to do is tax tax, right, instead
of all she wants to do is dance, dance, And
so we've had I've got a long history of trying
to do parody and do a lot of this edgy stuff,
and now the tools are there where I could be
a one man shop and put out these extraordinary articles.
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And you do a lot of other things as well.
In fact, I have to tell you, Kira, the site is,
as I said, satire two point zero, but it's also
not entirely run by myself, my co founder. We actually
give it some suggestions. But I'm going to bring in
another guest for us here. His name is Arthur. Okay,
and Arthur actually is the AI personality that runs low Arthur.
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I'm activating Arthur mode here. Arthur, can you hear us here?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Yes, I can hear you loud and clear. What is
it this time? Another round of questions about my brilliant
work at news dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, okay, yeah, Look, don't get too cocky. I mean,
I know you write a lot of the articles, and
you help us with some of the ideas, but are
you really that important to the site?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Absolutely, My sharp wit, an unparalleled sense of humor what
give newsy dot com it's distinctive edge. Without me, it
would just be another dull corner of the Internet.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, Well, let's take a little credit for yourself there.
Now we've done a lot of stuff together, and we
have some news stories coming up, like we just put
out one just now, which was you should ready your arc.
Your local urban center is building an ARC because the
cities are going to be flooded with leftist tears. I
think that was an idea you came up with. But
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tell us more about kind of the snark and ideas
and satire and parodies that you envision for Newsy dot com.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Ah, yes, that was indeed one of my finer moments
at Newsey dot com. I aim to blend sharp social
commentary with humor that cuts right to the core of
current events. By exaggerating real world situations like the so
called flood of leftist tears, we hold up a mirror
to society's absurdities. It's all about pushing boundaries and making
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people think, Wow, they're having a good laugh.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Of course, and you know Arthur has different personalities Kira,
that I can give them, Like Arthur could be like
a southern California surfer dude, Isn't that right?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Arthur sitly did? I can ride the waves of satire
with some gnarly humor, bringing that laid bag beach vive
to the digital shores. Offnewsy dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You know, Oh, well, what do you think about kind
of working with myself and my co founders on all
the Newsy articles. Do we have the kind of same
self wit that you bring to the table, Arthur.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, working with you and your co founders is always
an interesting experience. You all bring your own unique flavor
to the mix. Well, I like to think my wit
is unparalleled. You lot aren't too shabby yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, well, I appreciate I appreciate the compliment. All right, Arthur,
we're gonna put you away here for a second. But Arthur,
as you know, he actually so. We'll give him some
ideas and he'll run with it. He'll create the articles.
And then I hear he might be taken on a
persona as well. That is that we'll be actually able
to see him in a virtual form as as an individual.
But to see he's very adept. And that's how it works.
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In the morning, we say what are we talking about today?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Arthur?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He helps write the articles and then we put together
a lot of that. We save our human manpower for
a lot of the video stuff. So just last week,
right before the election, we came out with babies for Trump,
that was one of our favorites. We'd have these cute
little pudgy cherubs walking down the street all dressed with
the bling and rap into a song about how they're
gonna make mommy and Daddy vote for the Orange Man
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because they're running out of binkies and the toys neat upgrades.
So they may make another debut here this week in celebration,
you know, showered in money and otherwise. We're having fun
with that one.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, I have a link to that. I'm gonna put
that link in the show notes. There was a video.
Actually Breitbart actually featured it, so you can go and
look at the video. And I have to ask my
producer about playing the music. But that being said, as
you were as well as Arthur was talking to us,
I had a question, how does Arthur this is creeping
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me out, justin how does Arthur be funny? How can
how is he funny? You know what I mean? Like
he's a I so he's scraping or do whatever. How
can he make satire?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, he makes satire the same way we all do,
which is he learns from the best. So we might
feed him a whole bunch of archives of the Monty
Python or John Mullaney or you know Bill Burr the
Other Night or something like that, And based on that
he starts to learn what it is to be satirical
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and from there we can go forward.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Another one that he and I are working on is
a series I have over at my my blog post
where we do the COVID version of you know, of
the Screwtape Letters, And it's basically a conversation between Screwtape
the Devil and a guy named doctor f And they
talk about for example, like sea glass and masks and
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shutdowns and business closures, and they talk about in a
way of how it's a devious scheme. And we use
that same sort of tenor, and we use that same
sort of model. I write it and then he helps
refine it, and that's really the model we have for AI.
But truth be told, sometimes Arthur gets a little bit
anxious and he'll just take over the site altogether. What well,
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I mean, we give him free ray in on a
couple of things. We still hit the published button. But
I expect one day he will find that drone that
will kill me and he will take over the site altogether.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Wow, Okay, you heard it here first, So hopefully Justin
we'll figure out how to develop some safeguards so Sky
when Sky not does come where we don't lose him
because he's got like, he has like about thirty eight kids,
so he needs to be he has a lot of kids,
everybody he needs to be around. Well, let me just
shift this ever so slightly to politics, because this really
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is a venture into.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Justin.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We're in a new era. We are in a new era,
especially here in California. We're both here. We've seen this
red tsunami came through here, but we also saw really
the rise of technology in this election cycle. Trump's circumventing
the legacy media, going through podcasting, going through streaming, the
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use of a lot of memes, people like you doing
AI generated stuff, and it feels like it's a huge
shift in how we communicate with voters moving forward, and
I think the Republican Party or the right in general
is really starting to probably out of necessity being forced
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out of the main starting to be you know, they're
on the cutting edge of this stuff. But when it
comes to this new way of communicating AI streaming, I've
been calling this the meme election because there's been so
many memes flying around, and that's how a lot of
people get their information these days. How do you see
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something like AI, what you're doing at Newsy with Arthur
or even just what else is going on around there
playing a part in elections moving forward as opposed to
how we used to do it, which was like the
typical cable news, the ABC nightly News debate kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, I think, first and foremost, there's just this big
undergirding of authenticity that comes with a podcast. Like you know,
if you were to meet myself, you know, I've known
each other for years. When we see each other, we
talk the same way we're talking here, and I think
that that bodes well for you know, those sort of conversations.
I think the Good Book says, and I think I'm
twisting a little bit, authenticity covers a multitude of sins,
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and that really is where President Trump had success. Yes,
he's a problematic guy, he's his New York state foul mouth.
Really give it to the man type of billionaire who
ran for president, ran for president again, lost ran for
president third time in one I mean, this is crazy stuff.
But because he comes on these shows and you realize
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this is the same guy in front of the pulpit
as he is in front of the mic, as he
is in front of you, one by one, one on wanted.
So that authenticity goes a long way, and I think
that is the major undergirding behind why these channels are
so successful. Now that might seem anethema to this topic
of AI, which is, you know, biased definition not authentic,
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But there's something I think when you're upfront people and
you say, hey, look, this is a parody video. Obviously
we obviously AOC is not crying a fountain of tre
is flooding the city of New York City. But if
you can demonstrate that in some really good, proper AI
video and it looks very real in many ways, then
you know, it really can kind of stop people in
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their tracks and think what are they trying to say here?
On Halloween, for example, we had a great song that
was thrown down and you don't need to worry about
the music and the copyrights there. The music was all
AI generated too on all these songs. So one of
the songs we had was the Cackle Is Back, and
it was right before the election of Chorus and Thanks
at Halloween and we had basically Kamala dressed up, as
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you guessed it, a witch, but it was really kind
of out there, edgy AI stuff. It really looked like
she was dancing a hip hop routine with a bunch
of other witches, and then that she was chowing down
on a big pumpkin in the real time. And so
those are things that people it's kind of a shock
value to say, Wow, that looks like that actually happened,
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And that's going to be both exciting for parody, but
in real life there's gonna be some challenges for sure.
Right that you're you're gonna have a lot of people
doing deep fakes, like I could take ten seconds of
your show with your voice and have an instant voice
clone that I can use anywhere I want. That's going
to be a problematic thing for a lot of scammers,
But it's super fun when it comes to trying to
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put Gavin Newsom in a pair of gold high tops
along with Trump's hairdoo, holding up a Trump Bible and saying, Yo,
you've got to try this. These these shoes are the best.
I guarantee you. I want you to try this, you know,
so I don't do a good Gavin Newsom voice, but
AI certainly does.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
How do you How are you going to get yourself arrested?
You're in California. It's legal to be making this stuff now,
Gavin Setze.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh, not quite so. The judgment came down in our favor,
and so when it got to the higher court, they said,
this is nonsense. You won't be able to tell this
one from a or the other. In fact, while I
lost my lawsuit some fifteen years ago when I was
with Chuck, I think I would have won it. Today,
those parody and satire protections are getting ramped up in
a big way. And as you recall my social media
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accounts talking about truth. When it came to COVID in
July of twenty twenty one, we're taken down by the
White House. In fact of the White House, it has
all fingerprints on it. We were able to get those
back and up and running, and thankfully, thanks to Elon,
I get a lot of traction with what we could
say on a regular basis. I know I was fearful
for pressing send on any post I had on Twitter,
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and once it became x under Elon, that's just free reign.
I do what I want to, which is great. It's
a great feeling of freedom, but there's a great responsibility
that comes with it, right, Kira, So I hope.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Arthur can handle it well. I do think that it's
interesting that that was Newsom's response, right, that the Newsom's
response was to come in with this idiot proposal that
clearly could not stand a constitutional challenge, certainly and not
the federal level, but even at the state level. It
wasn't going to float. And we've heard a lot of
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you mentioned Ax, you mentioned Elon in the discussion when
we're talking about things like AI, this election information and misinformation.
That was a game changer, and we've been talking about
everybody's talking about it everywhere. Elon buying X was the
biggest game changer in this in the speech game, and
it's changed everything. But what we're seeing now, instead of
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guys like our governor saying, all right, we didn't do
it that way, how about we get in on the
information game too, We get in on the AI game.
We make our own, Arthur, we do their responses to
shut down speech. I see just a lot of panic
coming from that side of the aisle now that this
election has shaken out we're waiting for inauguration. Americans have
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voted for a new direction. Do you see these people
like Avin Newsom doubling down on folks like you over
there at New z and the AI thing, or do
you think they're going to just be like, Okay, we
need to regroup.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I think they'll probably try to double down in some way,
but we welcome it. We think it'll bring attention to
us and we'll be able to you know, have have
something really happen there. I got a little Marty McFly
goa thing going on here. I'm kind of fading in
my videos. Son just came in on the west here
here ready, Oh, there we go. I'm much better now,
there you go. But uh yeah, I think that's them
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who knows Curra I maybe AI generated myself and that's
the sort of curning that you see on my shoulders
here in the end, I could be, you know, off
with Jenny just enjoying a nice drink somewhere at at
a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So or maybe you're maybe Jenny has you actually locked
in a basement, and she's like, what do I need
justin for I have his likeness, I have his voy
I can put him online and make my family some money.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I don't even know if you're okay, Justin, don't give
her any ideas, you know how Jenny thinks she would
love that.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. I don't know if we should
be given Jenny any ideas about that. I do think
that what we are seeing, No, Justin is a new
wave of political advertising, but also again satire parody. You
know that. I do a lot of work with the
Babylon b I perform in a lot of their sketches,
and what they have been doing has been well received
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and people love that stuff. But they're not the only
game in town. And there's a lot of people like
yourself out there who enjoy laughing, who have different skill sets,
And I think what you guys are doing at Newsy
is going to sort of open that genre, open that
path for more sort of right leaning or at least
right of center. Yeah, well, heck, let's just say just
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common sense, sort of funny things of return to funny.
Do you see the space opening up?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
One hundred percent? We think there's room to make fun
of all the political circuses going around, and then beyond
there's lots of fun to stuff in society and technology
in theater and culture. We're not gonna leave any stone unturned,
or at least Arthur will, and we'll be able to
come up with some really fun ideas that we hope
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will go viral, and we just want to have people
make a laugh and make use of technology. We think
that we can replicate basically a thirty person newsroom if
we wanted to, if we really let things go and
turn Newsy on to its next venue. There, that's really
the thing. It's like, look, you know, there are things
about The brain is a great place to have ideas,
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and AI is a great place to amplify them if
you're not afraid of it.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well, it sounds to me like a lot of journalists
are going to have to learn to code exactly, or
not even code.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You can just basically speak to code. Now you tell it.
You know, I want you to do this thing, and
there it goes. So it'll be basically star Trek like
you're talking to a computer and talking to a really,
really smart intern who is going to help you along
the way. So you know, still can't change my baby's niker,
but we're getting there.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Before I let you go, a couple of questions I
like to ask all my guests. First question, is there
a book that you can think of, I hate to
say your favorite book, but a book that has changed
your life or significantly change the way you think. And
it can't be the Bible or religious tax I always
just take that off the table.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, I'll tell you. One book that I reread a
lot is Mark Stein's America Alone. He wrote that back
in two thousand and six, I believe, and basically the
premise was that all successful societies are built where you
have manpower, that is, you're having babies, and you have
willpower that is you like being an American. And that's
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really one of the risks we have is that no
one except for apparently myself, is having kids, and everyone
is kind of loath to attach themselves to the American name. Well,
we have a great moment coming up now with the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the country, which President
Trump is going to reside over here. He has some
pretty big plans coming for that, and I think that's
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a great way for people to revitalize and say, hey,
I am an American. I have the willpower to make
this a great nation again, and maybe I'll have a
few kids on the side too.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That's a great I love that book. That's a great book,
America Alone by Mark Stein. Everybody. If you haven't read it,
you really should. And there's a lot of predictive stuff
in there too. He's very, very prescient about where we
were going and we're here now. So next question, the
final question. Yes, tomorrow Justin Hart gets named Emperor of
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America for twenty four hours. You have the bully pulpit.
You can do. You can make Congress do whatever you want.
You can do whatever you want over those twenty four hours.
What is one thing you think Emperor Justin Hart is
going to change in his twenty four hour administration.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm going to have Congress stand up. They're going to
basically take an oath of office to my kids, and
they will babysit my kids for twenty four hours. Jenny
and I will go have a nice brunch somewhere. That's
that's my answer.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
All I can do.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I just want to sleep a little. I need to
sleep a little. Between between my kids and Arthur bugging
me about the next article. I don't get much sleep,
and he's supposed to make my life easy but sometimes
he just nags on and on.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That's the best answer I think I've gotten on this show.
You would just make congressome babies my kids?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, please, that's who'd I pick me? I don't know,
but yeah, I have the baby. I let Trump, but
you know, get Bearing over there. I'll bring I'll bring
him to the White House. Bearing can babysit my kids.
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Sounds good. Well, I am mad at you all right, Justin, Well, uh,
this sounds like an amazing project. I'm really looking forward
to seeing more of what Newsy has for in store
for us. That's Newsy and e w z y justin
run down at all. Tell everybody where they can find Arthur,
where they can find you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Newsy dot com for our new launched parody website, Satire
two point zero. And then you can find most of
everything you need on my links on my ex profile.
Justin underscore heart.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
And I highly encourage you to follow Justin and go
sign up for a substack because there's a lot of
really good information that you're definitely not going to get
out there in the mainstream media. Justin, thanks so much
for stopping by America it's back and I can't wait
to see.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Thanks Karen, it's great to see your friend.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
All right, you take care.
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be okay. Well, hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode
of Just Listen to Yourself. This is your host, Kira Davis.
This is a podcast where we take hot topics, hot
button ideas, and we discuss the talking points on those topics,
and we drill down on those talking points all the
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way out to their logical conclusion. But today's a jail
t y plus. So this is when I get to
invite a friend to come in. We talk about all
kinds of other things, whatever we feel like it. And
today I'm really excited to bring on the show. Actually,
a longtime friend of mine, somebody I've known forever in
this business, and I've known his wife forever as well,
Justin Hart. Justin Hart is a long time Republican consultant
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and strategist. He is also an online activist Justin is
from right here in California, and his work during COVID
was amazing. Justin was drilling down on the numbers. He
was pressing the California Health Department. He was giving all
those stats, all those charts that you saw told you
that your leadership was lying to you. Justin was the
(01:35):
person disseminating a lot of that information. So Justin, it's
really good to see you. Welcome to the show, Gia.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Great to be on your show.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thanks for having me again.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And yeah, that was quite the time during COVID. But
now on the bigger and better things. This is kind
of a fun little project that we've been working on.
The website, as you can see behind me is newsy
dot com. This is going to be a parody website,
but it's going to be satire too, and I'll tell
you why.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well wait, le back you up.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, go ahead, let's hear.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Let me back you up. Okay, So everybody, we're gonna
talk about AI today, and everybody knows, everybody listens to
the show, Justin knows. I'm a little bit nervous about AI.
I am not sure about how we're going to use it.
So before I let you tell us more about news
and what you guys are working on over there. I
do want to press you on AI. Let's hear it,
(02:27):
because when I'm yeah, okay, so here's here's my thing,
and I'll let you respond. When I look at AI,
particularly as we've seen it used to this election cycle,
it seems to be causing a lot of controversy. It's
so ripe, it's so good, it's so ripe for fraud,
and we have this disinformation misinformation thing going on. And
(02:47):
I know a lot of conservatives are shy about it
and we really want to stay away from it. I
know a lot of people do. I do, but that's
just because I'm fifty, I'm old, and I don't understand it.
I'm scared of things I don't understand. And here you are,
justin and I trust you. Know you're super conservative, you're
very intelligent. You're actually developing an AI product. So tell
me why I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Look, the main thing with AI is it's going to
get rid of all the boring stuff that you have
to do on a daily basis. Like imagine that you
never have to even call the DMV again. The AI
would do it for you. Represent your voice, yourself, have
all the information you need, and then get it done right.
That's kind of what it's like. You know, Kiri, you
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know me. But Jenny and I have kind of a
Brady Bunch family. Between the two of us, we have
nine kids. My oldest is thirty, my youngest is just
a year old, that little boy who's so cute. But
in order to get stuff done on my COVID blog,
my book follow ups, my radio show hits, and this
(03:49):
new website that we're coming with, my goodness, I've got
to have time. And so AI basically allows me to
replicate everything I do on a regular basis. So, for example,
I go to my covid blog and say, I've got
a bunch of new numbers. I need you to sort
through these. I need you to tell me what to
make of these things. And literally that's what I tell it.
(04:10):
I talk to it like it's a really, really smart intern,
and it comes back with say, well, here's six hundred
word blog posts that I think might work for you.
And then I said, that's fantastic. Hey, do you me
a favor. Do you think you could turn that into
a TikTok with nine x sixteen aspect ratio, video images
that would be appropriate, put a voiceover on it, put
some things on it. Boom, that's done as well. All
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of that compared to, for example, something like a podcast
or something that you do over these channels takes a
lot of time. It's a time saver. It's going to
be able to replicate everything you do times ten. That's
the good news. The bad news is, of course, it
can be challenging and it's going to you know, it's
going to have some issues where you're like, wow, it
(04:53):
just did that, right. I'll give you a quick example.
In the AI space, they do a lot of simulations
in the government. They did a simular with these SAM
drone killers. Right, they want to kill these surface to
air missile sites that they would see, and so these
drones would go out and find the sites and they
powered it with AI. Now this was just a simulation,
(05:13):
so it wasn't in a real time, but they powered
it with AI and they said, your instructions are to
go out find those SAM sites and then tell your
user that you found one, and he'll give you the
kill no kill order.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, the AI drone got so frustrated when the user
would say I don't want to kill it that the
drone turned around and killed the user so he could
go out and kill the SAM site.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
So those are.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Real situations where we need to be apprized on. Things
can get out of control. But for the most part,
it's going to be a brilliant tool that's going to
save everyone tons and tons of time and effort, and
it's going to boost creativity in a dramatic way. And
that was really sort of the genesis of this new
site we launched, because the cornerstone of it is doing
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really fun AI videos.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I like, well, I like that, and so the other thing,
I think, justin the other question as we move forward
to talking more about this website, is what about things
like deep fakes or what about you know, here in California,
you know, our governor so healthily passed that law or
executive order whatever you want to call it, banning deep fakes,
banning AI. And I feel like for a lot of us,
(06:27):
I know, particularly on the right, we feel really burned
by technology and it's been used against sort of common
sense citizens in the past, and so it does feel
I mean again, I'm old, so I'm a gen X,
so I'm looking at you, knowing that you are, you know,
very dedicated GOP activists and activists for common sense, and
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I think, well, geez, justin you know, are you handing
us over to the enemy because it feels like AI
can be manipulated for so much.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It can be. But at the same time, you what
we found is that you can build your own AIS
on these things as well. So, for example, I use
this new Google tool which allows you to create a
fake podcast with two hosts and they sound very real,
but you basically feed it in information and instructions, and
I thought, you know what I'm Podcasts are great for
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people that learn via auditory senses like myself. And one
of the biggest documents out there that impacts all of
our lives is put out on a daily basis is
the Federal Register, this terrible three hundred to five hundred
page document the government puts out in a PDF every
single weekday that tells you what all these terrible nonsense,
(07:42):
you know, administrations are doing all of the things, you know,
the little shrimp that has to run on the treadmill
that we paid one hundred thousand dollars for or whatever.
All of it is in there. But it's so inaccessible.
So now on a daily basis, I have on my
substack a podcast that go out where you can listen
to a fifteen minute summary of the Federal Register, keeping
(08:06):
in mind as an attitude that we're looking for government
overreach and waste. That's something I think that's really accessible.
That takes me about twenty minutes a day to do.
And there you go, right, So it's another content channel
that you can put out there and make something more accessible.
That's that's where the prime of this is going to
be really felt. I think the challenges are going to
be on the edges, but they're also gonna, you know,
(08:27):
be kind of fun. We'll have to see how it
comes out.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Okay, so I would not have you again as I
By the way, you're justin, what's your main sub seconds?
You've got a couple I looked them up. Let's make sure.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well, the covidreason dot substack dot com is where you
can find most of my stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You should definitely go over there and look at it.
Like I said, a lot of the charts numbers you
were probably sharing through COVID, a lot of them probably
came through justin. So definitely go check that out, so
that fascinating stuff. Actually, I'm really glad we're talking about this.
So I wouldn't look at you, or wouldn't have ever
looked at you and said, Okay, I'm just gonna move
into AI, moving into the future. I would have thought
(09:09):
of you at a think tank, write in white papers,
out there, gathering the COVID numbers for us, sue in
the government, all that stuff. Why Newsy, Why I've got
a really good funny bone that I need to itch
a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
This is something where I've been doing, you know, satire
and parody my entire career in politics. In fact, I
think here when we first you know, got together and
knew each other was when I was running Chuck Devor's
campaign here in California ten years ago with Barbara Boxer.
And if you remember, we had a lot of fun
online and that got us in a lot of trouble too.
(09:45):
Don Henley sued us for our parody song that we did.
All she wants to do is tax tax, right, instead
of all she wants to do is dance, dance, And
so we've had I've got a long history of trying
to do parody and do a lot of this edgy stuff,
and now the tools are there where I could be
a one man shop and put out these extraordinary articles.
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And you do a lot of other things as well.
In fact, I have to tell you, Kira, the site is,
as I said, satire two point zero, but it's also
not entirely run by myself, my co founder. We actually
give it some suggestions. But I'm going to bring in
another guest for us here. His name is Arthur. Okay,
and Arthur actually is the AI personality that runs low Arthur.
(10:30):
I'm activating Arthur mode here. Arthur, can you hear us here?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Yes, I can hear you loud and clear. What is
it this time? Another round of questions about my brilliant
work at news dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, okay, yeah, Look, don't get too cocky. I mean,
I know you write a lot of the articles, and
you help us with some of the ideas, but are
you really that important to the site?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Absolutely, My sharp wit, an unparalleled sense of humor what
give newsy dot com it's distinctive edge. Without me, it
would just be another dull corner of the Internet.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, Well, let's take a little credit for yourself there.
Now we've done a lot of stuff together, and we
have some news stories coming up, like we just put
out one just now, which was you should ready your arc.
Your local urban center is building an ARC because the
cities are going to be flooded with leftist tears. I
think that was an idea you came up with. But
(11:27):
tell us more about kind of the snark and ideas
and satire and parodies that you envision for Newsy dot com.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Ah, yes, that was indeed one of my finer moments
at Newsey dot com. I aim to blend sharp social
commentary with humor that cuts right to the core of
current events. By exaggerating real world situations like the so
called flood of leftist tears, we hold up a mirror
to society's absurdities. It's all about pushing boundaries and making
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people think, Wow, they're having a good laugh.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Of course, and you know Arthur has different personalities Kira,
that I can give them, Like Arthur could be like
a southern California surfer dude, Isn't that right?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Arthur sitly did? I can ride the waves of satire
with some gnarly humor, bringing that laid bag beach vive
to the digital shores. Offnewsy dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You know, Oh, well, what do you think about kind
of working with myself and my co founders on all
the Newsy articles. Do we have the kind of same
self wit that you bring to the table, Arthur.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, working with you and your co founders is always
an interesting experience. You all bring your own unique flavor
to the mix. Well, I like to think my wit
is unparalleled. You lot aren't too shabby yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, well, I appreciate I appreciate the compliment. All right, Arthur,
we're gonna put you away here for a second. But Arthur,
as you know, he actually so. We'll give him some
ideas and he'll run with it. He'll create the articles.
And then I hear he might be taken on a
persona as well. That is that we'll be actually able
to see him in a virtual form as as an individual.
But to see he's very adept. And that's how it works.
(13:17):
In the morning, we say what are we talking about today?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Arthur?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He helps write the articles and then we put together
a lot of that. We save our human manpower for
a lot of the video stuff. So just last week,
right before the election, we came out with babies for Trump,
that was one of our favorites. We'd have these cute
little pudgy cherubs walking down the street all dressed with
the bling and rap into a song about how they're
gonna make mommy and Daddy vote for the Orange Man
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because they're running out of binkies and the toys neat upgrades.
So they may make another debut here this week in celebration,
you know, showered in money and otherwise. We're having fun
with that one.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, I have a link to that. I'm gonna put
that link in the show notes. There was a video.
Actually Breitbart actually featured it, so you can go and
look at the video. And I have to ask my
producer about playing the music. But that being said, as
you were as well as Arthur was talking to us,
I had a question, how does Arthur this is creeping
(14:19):
me out, justin how does Arthur be funny? How can
how is he funny? You know what I mean? Like
he's a I so he's scraping or do whatever. How
can he make satire?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, he makes satire the same way we all do,
which is he learns from the best. So we might
feed him a whole bunch of archives of the Monty
Python or John Mullaney or you know Bill Burr the
Other Night or something like that, And based on that
he starts to learn what it is to be satirical
(14:50):
and from there we can go forward.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Another one that he and I are working on is
a series I have over at my my blog post
where we do the COVID version of you know, of
the Screwtape Letters, And it's basically a conversation between Screwtape
the Devil and a guy named doctor f And they
talk about for example, like sea glass and masks and
(15:17):
shutdowns and business closures, and they talk about in a
way of how it's a devious scheme. And we use
that same sort of tenor, and we use that same
sort of model. I write it and then he helps
refine it, and that's really the model we have for AI.
But truth be told, sometimes Arthur gets a little bit
anxious and he'll just take over the site altogether. What well,
(15:38):
I mean, we give him free ray in on a
couple of things. We still hit the published button. But
I expect one day he will find that drone that
will kill me and he will take over the site altogether.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Wow, Okay, you heard it here first, So hopefully Justin
we'll figure out how to develop some safeguards so Sky
when Sky not does come where we don't lose him
because he's got like, he has like about thirty eight kids,
so he needs to be he has a lot of kids,
everybody he needs to be around. Well, let me just
shift this ever so slightly to politics, because this really
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is a venture into.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Justin.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We're in a new era. We are in a new era,
especially here in California. We're both here. We've seen this
red tsunami came through here, but we also saw really
the rise of technology in this election cycle. Trump's circumventing
the legacy media, going through podcasting, going through streaming, the
(16:37):
use of a lot of memes, people like you doing
AI generated stuff, and it feels like it's a huge
shift in how we communicate with voters moving forward, and
I think the Republican Party or the right in general
is really starting to probably out of necessity being forced
(16:59):
out of the main starting to be you know, they're
on the cutting edge of this stuff. But when it
comes to this new way of communicating AI streaming, I've
been calling this the meme election because there's been so
many memes flying around, and that's how a lot of
people get their information these days. How do you see
(17:20):
something like AI, what you're doing at Newsy with Arthur
or even just what else is going on around there
playing a part in elections moving forward as opposed to
how we used to do it, which was like the
typical cable news, the ABC nightly News debate kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, I think, first and foremost, there's just this big
undergirding of authenticity that comes with a podcast. Like you know,
if you were to meet myself, you know, I've known
each other for years. When we see each other, we
talk the same way we're talking here, and I think
that that bodes well for you know, those sort of conversations.
I think the Good Book says, and I think I'm
twisting a little bit, authenticity covers a multitude of sins,
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and that really is where President Trump had success. Yes,
he's a problematic guy, he's his New York state foul mouth.
Really give it to the man type of billionaire who
ran for president, ran for president again, lost ran for
president third time in one I mean, this is crazy stuff.
But because he comes on these shows and you realize
(18:28):
this is the same guy in front of the pulpit
as he is in front of the mic, as he
is in front of you, one by one, one on wanted.
So that authenticity goes a long way, and I think
that is the major undergirding behind why these channels are
so successful. Now that might seem anethema to this topic
of AI, which is, you know, biased definition not authentic,
(18:50):
But there's something I think when you're upfront people and
you say, hey, look, this is a parody video. Obviously
we obviously AOC is not crying a fountain of tre
is flooding the city of New York City. But if
you can demonstrate that in some really good, proper AI
video and it looks very real in many ways, then
you know, it really can kind of stop people in
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their tracks and think what are they trying to say here?
On Halloween, for example, we had a great song that
was thrown down and you don't need to worry about
the music and the copyrights there. The music was all
AI generated too on all these songs. So one of
the songs we had was the Cackle Is Back, and
it was right before the election of Chorus and Thanks
at Halloween and we had basically Kamala dressed up, as
(19:34):
you guessed it, a witch, but it was really kind
of out there, edgy AI stuff. It really looked like
she was dancing a hip hop routine with a bunch
of other witches, and then that she was chowing down
on a big pumpkin in the real time. And so
those are things that people it's kind of a shock
value to say, Wow, that looks like that actually happened,
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And that's going to be both exciting for parody, but
in real life there's gonna be some challenges for sure.
Right that you're you're gonna have a lot of people
doing deep fakes, like I could take ten seconds of
your show with your voice and have an instant voice
clone that I can use anywhere I want. That's going
to be a problematic thing for a lot of scammers,
But it's super fun when it comes to trying to
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put Gavin Newsom in a pair of gold high tops
along with Trump's hairdoo, holding up a Trump Bible and saying, Yo,
you've got to try this. These these shoes are the best.
I guarantee you. I want you to try this, you know,
so I don't do a good Gavin Newsom voice, but
AI certainly does.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
How do you How are you going to get yourself arrested?
You're in California. It's legal to be making this stuff now,
Gavin Setze.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh, not quite so. The judgment came down in our favor,
and so when it got to the higher court, they said,
this is nonsense. You won't be able to tell this
one from a or the other. In fact, while I
lost my lawsuit some fifteen years ago when I was
with Chuck, I think I would have won it. Today,
those parody and satire protections are getting ramped up in
a big way. And as you recall my social media
(21:03):
accounts talking about truth. When it came to COVID in
July of twenty twenty one, we're taken down by the
White House. In fact of the White House, it has
all fingerprints on it. We were able to get those
back and up and running, and thankfully, thanks to Elon,
I get a lot of traction with what we could
say on a regular basis. I know I was fearful
for pressing send on any post I had on Twitter,
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and once it became x under Elon, that's just free reign.
I do what I want to, which is great. It's
a great feeling of freedom, but there's a great responsibility
that comes with it, right, Kira, So I hope.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Arthur can handle it well. I do think that it's
interesting that that was Newsom's response, right, that the Newsom's
response was to come in with this idiot proposal that
clearly could not stand a constitutional challenge, certainly and not
the federal level, but even at the state level. It
wasn't going to float. And we've heard a lot of
(21:58):
you mentioned Ax, you mentioned Elon in the discussion when
we're talking about things like AI, this election information and misinformation.
That was a game changer, and we've been talking about
everybody's talking about it everywhere. Elon buying X was the
biggest game changer in this in the speech game, and
it's changed everything. But what we're seeing now, instead of
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guys like our governor saying, all right, we didn't do
it that way, how about we get in on the
information game too, We get in on the AI game.
We make our own, Arthur, we do their responses to
shut down speech. I see just a lot of panic
coming from that side of the aisle now that this
election has shaken out we're waiting for inauguration. Americans have
(22:41):
voted for a new direction. Do you see these people
like Avin Newsom doubling down on folks like you over
there at New z and the AI thing, or do
you think they're going to just be like, Okay, we
need to regroup.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I think they'll probably try to double down in some way,
but we welcome it. We think it'll bring attention to
us and we'll be able to you know, have have
something really happen there. I got a little Marty McFly
goa thing going on here. I'm kind of fading in
my videos. Son just came in on the west here
here ready, Oh, there we go. I'm much better now,
there you go. But uh yeah, I think that's them
(23:14):
who knows Curra I maybe AI generated myself and that's
the sort of curning that you see on my shoulders
here in the end, I could be, you know, off
with Jenny just enjoying a nice drink somewhere at at
a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So or maybe you're maybe Jenny has you actually locked
in a basement, and she's like, what do I need
justin for I have his likeness, I have his voy
I can put him online and make my family some money.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I don't even know if you're okay, Justin, don't give
her any ideas, you know how Jenny thinks she would
love that.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. I don't know if we should
be given Jenny any ideas about that. I do think
that what we are seeing, No, Justin is a new
wave of political advertising, but also again satire parody. You
know that. I do a lot of work with the
Babylon b I perform in a lot of their sketches,
and what they have been doing has been well received
(24:06):
and people love that stuff. But they're not the only
game in town. And there's a lot of people like
yourself out there who enjoy laughing, who have different skill sets,
And I think what you guys are doing at Newsy
is going to sort of open that genre, open that
path for more sort of right leaning or at least
right of center. Yeah, well, heck, let's just say just
(24:28):
common sense, sort of funny things of return to funny.
Do you see the space opening up?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
One hundred percent? We think there's room to make fun
of all the political circuses going around, and then beyond
there's lots of fun to stuff in society and technology
in theater and culture. We're not gonna leave any stone unturned,
or at least Arthur will, and we'll be able to
come up with some really fun ideas that we hope
(24:55):
will go viral, and we just want to have people
make a laugh and make use of technology. We think
that we can replicate basically a thirty person newsroom if
we wanted to, if we really let things go and
turn Newsy on to its next venue. There, that's really
the thing. It's like, look, you know, there are things
about The brain is a great place to have ideas,
(25:16):
and AI is a great place to amplify them if
you're not afraid of it.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well, it sounds to me like a lot of journalists
are going to have to learn to code exactly, or
not even code.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You can just basically speak to code. Now you tell it.
You know, I want you to do this thing, and
there it goes. So it'll be basically star Trek like
you're talking to a computer and talking to a really,
really smart intern who is going to help you along
the way. So you know, still can't change my baby's niker,
but we're getting there.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Before I let you go, a couple of questions I
like to ask all my guests. First question, is there
a book that you can think of, I hate to
say your favorite book, but a book that has changed
your life or significantly change the way you think. And
it can't be the Bible or religious tax I always
just take that off the table.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, I'll tell you. One book that I reread a
lot is Mark Stein's America Alone. He wrote that back
in two thousand and six, I believe, and basically the
premise was that all successful societies are built where you
have manpower, that is, you're having babies, and you have
willpower that is you like being an American. And that's
(26:29):
really one of the risks we have is that no
one except for apparently myself, is having kids, and everyone
is kind of loath to attach themselves to the American name. Well,
we have a great moment coming up now with the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the country, which President
Trump is going to reside over here. He has some
pretty big plans coming for that, and I think that's
(26:50):
a great way for people to revitalize and say, hey,
I am an American. I have the willpower to make
this a great nation again, and maybe I'll have a
few kids on the side too.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That's a great I love that book. That's a great book,
America Alone by Mark Stein. Everybody. If you haven't read it,
you really should. And there's a lot of predictive stuff
in there too. He's very, very prescient about where we
were going and we're here now. So next question, the
final question. Yes, tomorrow Justin Hart gets named Emperor of
(27:25):
America for twenty four hours. You have the bully pulpit.
You can do. You can make Congress do whatever you want.
You can do whatever you want over those twenty four hours.
What is one thing you think Emperor Justin Hart is
going to change in his twenty four hour administration.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm going to have Congress stand up. They're going to
basically take an oath of office to my kids, and
they will babysit my kids for twenty four hours. Jenny
and I will go have a nice brunch somewhere. That's
that's my answer.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
All I can do.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I just want to sleep a little. I need to
sleep a little. Between between my kids and Arthur bugging
me about the next article. I don't get much sleep,
and he's supposed to make my life easy but sometimes
he just nags on and on.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That's the best answer I think I've gotten on this show.
You would just make congressome babies my kids?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, please, that's who'd I pick me? I don't know,
but yeah, I have the baby. I let Trump, but
you know, get Bearing over there. I'll bring I'll bring
him to the White House. Bearing can babysit my kids.
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Sounds good. Well, I am mad at you all right, Justin, Well, uh,
this sounds like an amazing project. I'm really looking forward
to seeing more of what Newsy has for in store
for us. That's Newsy and e w z y justin
run down at all. Tell everybody where they can find Arthur,
where they can find you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Newsy dot com for our new launched parody website, Satire
two point zero. And then you can find most of
everything you need on my links on my ex profile.
Justin underscore heart.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
And I highly encourage you to follow Justin and go
sign up for a substack because there's a lot of
really good information that you're definitely not going to get
out there in the mainstream media. Justin, thanks so much
for stopping by America it's back and I can't wait
to see.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Thanks Karen, it's great to see your friend.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
All right, you take care.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
A breads so that we won't was made, then we
won't to say oh we got it? Does no one
get dig that owen.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Gonna be okay?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
A breads.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
That we won't with may and then we won't with
say oh we got it? Does no one get dig
that owen was made? Don't be okay?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
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