WEBVTT - Discouraging & Humiliating 0:00:09.110 --> 0:00:12.950 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:12.990 --> 0:00:17.229 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:17.390 --> 0:00:18.770 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:18.950 --> 0:00:24.520 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.240 So it's a big difference between Texas, which that was 0:00:34.380 --> 0:00:37.640 a potential extinction event there because they got swept out 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.480 of everything from governor to the Supreme Court and even 0:00:41.540 --> 0:00:44.710 the House of Representatives. That is going to do damage, 0:00:44.770 --> 0:00:45.850 not just in Texas. 0:00:46.210 --> 0:00:46.650 It's going to. 0:00:46.650 --> 0:00:49.949 Hurt the Republican Party going forward. And if we can't 0:00:49.990 --> 0:00:54.070 win in places like Texas or Kansas or Iowa, you know, 0:00:54.170 --> 0:00:55.940 we are not viable nationally. 0:00:56.670 --> 0:01:00.360 Ron DeSantis will be the next president of the United 0:01:00.460 --> 0:01:04.720 States is something somebody might say if they believe that. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.760 If they had never seen him in public. 0:01:07.620 --> 0:01:10.640 I'm going to address that very question and talk about 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.280 Ron's speech the other day and his appearance on Laura 0:01:13.390 --> 0:01:16.190 Ingraham's show and a bunch more. But first, this. 0:01:16.590 --> 0:01:18.190 So there's a couple of things going on that you 0:01:18.209 --> 0:01:21.640 should know about. First of all, it's a day of 0:01:21.740 --> 0:01:24.400 rioting in Paris. Watching some of the videos, you have 0:01:24.420 --> 0:01:26.780 to search for them because for whatever reason, the media 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.500 is not interested in the France riots. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.819 Yeah, it turns out it's angry leftists and not plucky 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.100 young students who just want higher teacher pay. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.160 They're expecting between a half million and a three quarter 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.380 million people in the streets today in France. 70,000 police 0:01:43.459 --> 0:01:44.980 are on hand to deal with that. So it could 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.980 be quite the day in France. Going over to England, 0:01:48.020 --> 0:01:51.550 cross the channel. Russell Brand has been found guilty of 0:01:51.810 --> 0:01:54.930 one count of rape and several counts of sexual assault. 0:01:55.570 --> 0:01:58.250 I did a dive into what that means under their 0:01:58.330 --> 0:02:02.410 laws over there. He is likely he's 51 years old. 0:02:02.450 --> 0:02:05.310 He is likely to spend most of his 50s in jail. 0:02:06.450 --> 0:02:09.299 Russell Brand is a very rich celebrity who they often 0:02:09.340 --> 0:02:11.680 call a comedian. Yet I've never heard him say anything 0:02:11.740 --> 0:02:15.019 funny one time ever. But he's become a really big 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.040 deal for I know for a lot of you. He's 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.030 he's big on. Well, Tucker Carlson and a bunch of 0:02:20.050 --> 0:02:25.490 different new right stuff. He's he's a huge figure. So 0:02:25.510 --> 0:02:30.150 I don't know how you all feel about that. And 0:02:30.169 --> 0:02:31.790 then a couple of races that we don't know the 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:37.560 answer to yet in Los Angeles. Ramen noodles, the ramen, 0:02:37.580 --> 0:02:42.880 the socialist is leading over Karen Bass. barely like a 0:02:42.940 --> 0:02:45.139 point and a half, but 30% of the vote yet 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.180 to count because California is just so ridiculous in the 0:02:48.220 --> 0:02:50.799 way we count ballots. How can Los Angeles, one of 0:02:50.820 --> 0:02:54.670 the most modern cities on planet Earth, have 30% of 0:02:54.690 --> 0:02:56.930 the vote yet to count? How is that even possible? 0:02:57.350 --> 0:02:58.590 Here's my headline for the L.A. 0:02:59.030 --> 0:02:59.250 Race. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.280 In the race between insane and incompetent, insane has pulled 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:05.260 ahead for the moment. 0:03:05.490 --> 0:03:08.150 Yeah, no kidding. Then up there in Alaska, where one 0:03:08.169 --> 0:03:10.250 of your Dan Sullivans used to be or is a 0:03:10.290 --> 0:03:13.570 senator currently and running against that other woman, Peltola. Peltola's 0:03:13.630 --> 0:03:19.730 in the lead. 600 vote difference between the two. That 0:03:19.830 --> 0:03:22.390 is razor thin. And they think because of the way 0:03:22.470 --> 0:03:22.880 Alaska is. 0:03:22.930 --> 0:03:23.890 Now, Alaska is different. 0:03:23.930 --> 0:03:26.410 It's so spread out and so rural. L.A., I don't 0:03:26.430 --> 0:03:28.609 know your excuse, but Alaska, they think it might be 0:03:28.650 --> 0:03:30.230 a month before they have the results. 0:03:31.580 --> 0:03:34.640 Wow. Plus, you've got their Byzantine ranked choice stuff to 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.580 go through. I don't know how long that takes. But 0:03:36.980 --> 0:03:39.560 the thing, well, many things struck me about being in 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.050 Alaska this summer. One of them was that there are 0:03:44.090 --> 0:03:47.510 towns you've all heard of. Everybody's heard of in Alaska 0:03:48.270 --> 0:03:52.120 and not just like Anchorage, but Haines, Alaska, Sitka, you know, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.400 various towns. They're tiny. They're absolutely tiny. They're just the 0:03:56.460 --> 0:03:59.140 only towns of any significant size. And so people know 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.740 their names. Just like, you know, Lincoln, Nebraska, you know, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.740 everybody knows a town from each state, at least one 0:04:05.780 --> 0:04:08.839 to three towns, but they're tiny. So, yes, 600 votes. 0:04:08.860 --> 0:04:10.100 That's that's amazing. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:16.460 So I don't know how you could possibly think. A U.S. 0:04:16.660 --> 0:04:19.440 Senate seat on the line and the amount of money 0:04:19.580 --> 0:04:21.800 and power that's involved in a U.S. Senate seat. How 0:04:21.820 --> 0:04:25.339 do you keep skullduggery from happening when it's that close 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.250 on either side? 600 votes. I mean, you don't have 0:04:29.270 --> 0:04:29.450 to do it. 0:04:29.450 --> 0:04:32.310 It's very difficult. Yeah, I'll bet. Not many skulls have 0:04:32.350 --> 0:04:35.130 to be dug. So back to the question of Ron 0:04:35.170 --> 0:04:39.000 DeSantis being the next president. Jack jumped the gun there 0:04:39.100 --> 0:04:42.279 a bit with his cynical dismissal. Accurate. 0:04:43.260 --> 0:04:43.920 Ron. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.960 Accurate that it's cynical. Ron DeSantis is one of the 0:04:49.060 --> 0:04:53.640 few people who's going to get a solid, credible second 0:04:53.700 --> 0:04:57.440 chance to run for president. I consciously decided not to 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.550 use the phrase another bite at the apple because it's 0:05:01.690 --> 0:05:04.930 such a cliche in commentary these days. Just say what 0:05:04.970 --> 0:05:05.270 you mean. 0:05:05.290 --> 0:05:07.970 I was listening to him yesterday. I thought he would 0:05:08.010 --> 0:05:10.990 be president if it were the 1800s, if everybody is 0:05:11.029 --> 0:05:13.310 taking this all in in print. Or if it were 0:05:13.310 --> 0:05:15.610 2028 and I'm about to make the case, I'll thank 0:05:15.630 --> 0:05:19.520 you to stop with your cynicism, your skepticism. Get back 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:20.099 in my barrel. 0:05:21.339 --> 0:05:26.520 Exactly. Crawl into your jar, idiot. Ron DeSantis. made the 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.599 mistake that we swore we were not going to make 0:05:29.900 --> 0:05:34.609 in our radio career. Try it as somebody else's version 0:05:34.650 --> 0:05:35.529 of what we ought to be. 0:05:36.210 --> 0:05:37.789 Here's my Ron DeSantis impersonation. 0:05:37.890 --> 0:05:43.110 Oh, my God. See what I'm working with? He's making 0:05:43.250 --> 0:05:47.000 awkward movements. He's standing awkwardly. His arms are doing odd things. 0:05:47.460 --> 0:05:51.290 Posture is somewhat offbeat. This does not work well. He's 0:05:51.390 --> 0:05:53.490 tucked his neck down. He doesn't know what to do 0:05:53.529 --> 0:05:56.010 with his hands. He's one of those people that's so uncomfortable. 0:05:56.500 --> 0:05:59.039 He just is like, where should I put my hands here? 0:05:59.660 --> 0:06:02.300 Does this look relaxed? You know, Katie, in retrospect, maybe 0:06:02.339 --> 0:06:07.200 we should have done our show in the way others advised. Right, yeah. Anyway. Okay, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:13.390 so here's my point. Ron DeSantis ran as the professional 0:06:13.710 --> 0:06:19.260 political consultant's version of Ron DeSantis last time. And combined 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:24.450 with the Trump comeback, he was doomed. This time, Ron 0:06:24.650 --> 0:06:27.390 Diaz is going to run as Ron Diaz. He's going 0:06:27.410 --> 0:06:30.650 to say, look, I'm awkward. I'm not very charismatic, but 0:06:30.690 --> 0:06:33.590 I get stuff done. Here's my record in Florida. Do 0:06:33.610 --> 0:06:36.409 we want another game show host? Do we want another 0:06:36.490 --> 0:06:39.750 slick politician? I get stuff done. Here's the stuff I 0:06:39.790 --> 0:06:41.750 want to get. And we'll play some of what he 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.530 said recently. I'm not saying he has any more than a, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.870 you know. double-digit-ish chance, just as nobody does this far out. 0:06:50.470 --> 0:06:53.230 But I think it could be a different process. 0:06:53.250 --> 0:06:55.370 The fact that he has to think about when to 0:06:55.450 --> 0:06:57.300 smile and all that sort of stuff, or at least 0:06:57.380 --> 0:06:59.760 the last time around he did, I hate the fact 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.960 that that matters. That's not the way you should choose 0:07:01.980 --> 0:07:03.219 your chief executive. 0:07:03.580 --> 0:07:08.339 Right, and I think he's figured that out. So quickly, 0:07:08.740 --> 0:07:10.900 let's do 50, what he said the other night in 0:07:10.930 --> 0:07:12.090 a speech, got a lot of attention. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.600 Well, first, we were not immune to this wave. I mean, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.950 we felt it. We saw it in our data. I 0:07:18.990 --> 0:07:22.950 told candidates in the beginning of the fall, take what 0:07:22.990 --> 0:07:27.030 President Trump got here two years ago, 13-point margin statewide. 0:07:27.410 --> 0:07:28.790 Take 10 points off that. 0:07:29.190 --> 0:07:32.510 That's the new line of scrimmage with where voters were there. 0:07:32.570 --> 0:07:35.120 And so if he won your district by 15, you're 0:07:35.150 --> 0:07:36.520 down to a five-point race. 0:07:36.580 --> 0:07:38.920 And so we always plan for that. And I think 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:39.540 if you look. 0:07:40.420 --> 0:07:44.860 Texas had basically a 20-point swing. Trump won by 13. 0:07:44.860 --> 0:07:47.680 They lose the governor's race by 7%. They lost the 0:07:47.740 --> 0:07:50.680 Senate race by more than that. We had about that 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.840 10 to 12-point swing. We didn't do the 20. And 0:07:53.860 --> 0:07:56.290 I think it's because We've built up a lot of 0:07:56.370 --> 0:07:59.450 trust with our voters over the years that when we're 0:07:59.490 --> 0:08:01.450 asking them to come out, they do. So we were 0:08:01.570 --> 0:08:04.420 able to mitigate the downside. We were not immune to it, 0:08:04.650 --> 0:08:08.100 but we won every statewide race, U.S. Senate, governor, all 0:08:08.150 --> 0:08:11.600 our cabinet races. We had a 27 out of 40 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:12.440 in the Florida Senate. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.000 We did lose one. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:15.360 I'm not a Floridian, but. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.540 The fact that Florida won every statewide race for Republicans 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.860 and Texas lost every single statewide race for Democrats. What 0:08:24.900 --> 0:08:29.600 a stark difference between two large red states. I know Floridians, 0:08:29.780 --> 0:08:32.160 some of them famous, some of them not. And they 0:08:32.220 --> 0:08:36.620 all say it's a really well-governed state. We try stuff 0:08:36.660 --> 0:08:38.679 and if it doesn't work out right, we just change it. 0:08:38.740 --> 0:08:42.260 He's probably the best state executive in the country. 0:08:43.110 --> 0:08:46.060 Yeah, yeah. I want to feature one more thing that 0:08:46.100 --> 0:08:48.530 he said on Laura Ingram's show. This is clip 53, Michael. 0:08:49.730 --> 0:08:52.980 If you're going to do huge conservative things that are 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.480 going to reorient the country for a generation, fine. But 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.380 I saw no indication that the current group of Republican 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:05.070 senators were interested in doing that type of bold conservative change. 0:09:05.090 --> 0:09:09.689 I mean, why haven't we done immigration? Shut off H-1B visas. 0:09:09.950 --> 0:09:13.580 Why haven't we codified Trump's immigration executive orders? 0:09:13.750 --> 0:09:14.300 There's so. 0:09:14.500 --> 0:09:15.260 Why haven't we. 0:09:15.860 --> 0:09:20.300 Strip jurisdiction from the federal courts over deportation cases. There's 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.940 so many things that could have been done. They didn't 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.459 even attempt it, Laura. They would say, oh, if only 0:09:25.500 --> 0:09:27.460 we needed 50 votes, we would have done it. You 0:09:27.500 --> 0:09:30.620 don't have 50 votes for doing conservative things. You've never 0:09:30.780 --> 0:09:34.160 shown that you'll do conservative things even with 50 votes. 0:09:34.460 --> 0:09:36.520 So I hear you. I'd love to see all this 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.580 great stuff being done. I just never saw an indication 0:09:39.620 --> 0:09:40.179 that they did it. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:41.219 Wow, that's good. 0:09:42.460 --> 0:09:44.840 Yeah, his point midterm was a real rebuke of the 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.960 president and Congress and voters stayed home from frustration because 0:09:47.980 --> 0:09:51.400 they didn't see what they were promised being executed. And 0:09:52.330 --> 0:09:55.470 you cannot have enough contempt for Congress at this point. 0:09:55.750 --> 0:09:59.730 Both parties. I mean, they don't do much and what 0:09:59.750 --> 0:10:03.410 they do is the wrong thing no wonder people people 0:10:03.429 --> 0:10:06.860 are frustrated and america vaults back and forth from one 0:10:06.929 --> 0:10:09.390 crappy party to the other one back and forth and 0:10:09.410 --> 0:10:12.459 back and forth every couple of years what will break 0:10:12.540 --> 0:10:17.700 the log jam nobody knows anyway Ron, I think Ron 0:10:17.740 --> 0:10:21.349 has a real chance. He has got to hang a 0:10:21.450 --> 0:10:25.449 lantern on his awkwardness. Although, you know, against like a 0:10:25.470 --> 0:10:30.190 Marco Rubio, who's another solid conservative and is significantly more articulate, 0:10:33.059 --> 0:10:35.220 it's going to be a tough sled. But who knows? 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:36.480 I don't know. 0:10:36.580 --> 0:10:37.440 It's going to be fun to watch. 0:10:37.580 --> 0:10:43.770 I think we care more now about presentation and glibness 0:10:43.890 --> 0:10:48.050 and the showbiz angle of it than we ever have. 0:10:48.290 --> 0:10:50.790 So it's not his time, man. If it was 1888 0:10:50.790 --> 0:10:51.949 or something, that'd be perfect. 0:10:52.490 --> 0:10:59.120 Do you think, uh, the backlash against the Trumpian, I'm 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:03.020 an entertainer thing again, if he hangs his lantern. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.400 On, no, we're going to choose a different entertainer. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.450 Okay. You know, you're probably right. Uh, I am, I'm 0:11:08.550 --> 0:11:12.230 wishing my wishes are the father of my thoughts. So 0:11:13.090 --> 0:11:18.370 scammers and data salesmen and online jerks, they know who's 0:11:18.390 --> 0:11:20.429 the father of my thoughts because they have all sorts 0:11:20.470 --> 0:11:25.069 of information on me. Family members, names of my kids, addresses, 0:11:25.370 --> 0:11:29.130 cell phone numbers. It's all exposed for anyone who looked 0:11:29.190 --> 0:11:33.429 on these data broker sites. Incogni gets that stuff off 0:11:33.590 --> 0:11:34.170 of the sites. 0:11:34.550 --> 0:11:35.970 And if you don't believe us, type your own name 0:11:35.990 --> 0:11:38.270 into a people search site sometime and see all that 0:11:38.309 --> 0:11:40.120 information show up, including family members. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:40.880 It's disturbing. 0:11:41.910 --> 0:11:44.350 And that is why we use Incogni. Incogni sends requests 0:11:44.370 --> 0:11:47.230 to remove your personal information, including your address, from hundreds 0:11:47.270 --> 0:11:49.270 of data brokers. I check every week to see how 0:11:49.290 --> 0:11:51.380 many data brokers they went after this week. I love it. 0:11:51.700 --> 0:11:53.679 And it keeps sending them because these sites love to 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.440 sneak your info right back up there again. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.610 Incogni has sent hundreds of removal requests for both of us. 0:11:59.620 --> 0:12:01.160 I haven't checked in the last couple of days. I'll 0:12:01.179 --> 0:12:03.860 have to. But there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. And right now, 0:12:03.900 --> 0:12:06.679 if you use our code Armstrong, you get 60% off. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.830 They can't scam you if they can't find you. Go 0:12:08.870 --> 0:12:13.630 to incogni.com slash Armstrong. Get that 60% off. I-N-C-O-G-N-I dot 0:12:13.690 --> 0:12:16.470 com slash Armstrong and Cogni dot com slash Armstrong. 0:12:16.510 --> 0:12:18.910 As I've been saying for years, economic reporting is the 0:12:19.070 --> 0:12:22.189 dumbest reporting that exists of all the genres of reporting. 0:12:22.330 --> 0:12:25.880 They don't even try, and oftentimes it's being reported by 0:12:25.910 --> 0:12:28.199 people that don't know. But so yesterday there were all 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.880 these pronouncements made about the stock market going up and 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.219 what it means from the election. Today, a 1,200-point drop, 0:12:36.260 --> 0:12:38.660 one of the biggest drops in months, and now all 0:12:38.700 --> 0:12:42.510 kinds of pronouncements about... why they were wrong yesterday about 0:12:42.770 --> 0:12:44.670 everything is going to be wonderful ever, ever. Now the 0:12:44.690 --> 0:12:47.390 Democrats have been elected and that means the steady government, 0:12:47.450 --> 0:12:50.449 people are feeling comfortable. What happened now? We don't feel 0:12:50.490 --> 0:12:51.370 comfortable a day later. 0:12:52.030 --> 0:12:54.050 Keeping in mind, you're the same guy who said that 0:12:54.090 --> 0:12:54.810 stuff yesterday. 0:12:55.190 --> 0:12:55.410 Right? 0:12:55.429 --> 0:12:56.170 Yeah, exactly. 0:12:59.510 --> 0:13:02.990 Uh, too much AI in too many areas of our lives. 0:13:03.030 --> 0:13:04.470 We want to talk about that among other things. 0:13:04.550 --> 0:13:04.870 Stay here. 0:13:06.370 --> 0:13:16.880 Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:18.550 --> 0:13:21.390 From Belgium to Ireland to the Netherlands, several grocery stores 0:13:21.410 --> 0:13:24.290 say they were also impacted by cyber attacks. One store 0:13:24.309 --> 0:13:27.710 in Sweden saying, Overnight, our refrigerators and freezers were hacked 0:13:27.750 --> 0:13:30.370 and the temperature set to 50 degrees. The store meaning 0:13:30.370 --> 0:13:34.590 50 degrees Celsius, which is about 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The 0:13:34.690 --> 0:13:38.220 attacks forcing some stores to close. Many left with empty shelves. 0:13:38.620 --> 0:13:41.000 One Swedish grocery store employee saying they had to throw 0:13:41.059 --> 0:13:44.240 away all of their frozen goods. I said, hey, I mean, 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.219 the only thing you notice is that it was actually 0:13:46.260 --> 0:13:48.780 warm inside the freezer and that sort of thing. Various 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.189 supermarket chain representatives across the continent say the attacks resulted 0:13:52.250 --> 0:13:54.110 in millions of dollars of spoiled food. 0:13:54.170 --> 0:13:55.870 So I saw this clip on the list and I 0:13:55.970 --> 0:13:59.290 actually said to the producer, Hanson, is this new or 0:13:59.350 --> 0:14:00.850 is this the same one from the other day? No, 0:14:00.890 --> 0:14:05.560 it's an ongoing story. The Internet hacking of freezers across Europe. 0:14:05.940 --> 0:14:06.980 What the heck is going on? 0:14:08.059 --> 0:14:11.309 A couple of things. Number one, hackers. Finding a motive 0:14:11.410 --> 0:14:14.650 is tough. There is some speculation that Putin is sending 0:14:14.690 --> 0:14:17.010 the message, okay, you're going to support Ukraine, are you? 0:14:17.330 --> 0:14:19.240 I am going to mess with you every day. I 0:14:19.460 --> 0:14:20.920 am going to make your lives hard. 0:14:21.740 --> 0:14:22.140 Maybe. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.960 I'm always a little confused by sending a message that 0:14:26.220 --> 0:14:28.300 people aren't sure if it's from you or not. 0:14:30.770 --> 0:14:34.390 He always... He always preserves plausible deniability. 0:14:34.410 --> 0:14:36.570 I mean, that's why part of his thing. So I terrorists, 0:14:36.610 --> 0:14:40.360 you know, often take responsibility for it, like within an 0:14:40.390 --> 0:14:42.620 hour or the next day. We want you to know 0:14:42.700 --> 0:14:45.480 we did this. OK, we're trying to get a result 0:14:45.900 --> 0:14:46.560 from what we're doing. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.540 This brings us back to a conversation we've had many times. 0:14:49.950 --> 0:14:56.790 Why does Putin bother preserving not even credible deniability, plausible deniability? 0:14:57.070 --> 0:15:00.350 I don't know exactly. But like the many drone attacks 0:15:00.390 --> 0:15:03.090 and explosions at airports and the rest of it, he's 0:15:03.150 --> 0:15:06.229 sending a message. He figures you know who did it, 0:15:07.150 --> 0:15:10.180 which is in contrast to his domestic thing, which is 0:15:10.220 --> 0:15:13.820 to make it so freaking obvious who did it. I'm 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.800 not even going to cover my tracks, he says. That's 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:16.680 how scary I am. 0:15:16.900 --> 0:15:17.100 Anyway. 0:15:17.860 --> 0:15:20.540 The other thing that I thought was interesting was that 0:15:21.540 --> 0:15:24.660 hackers are like if it's connected to the Internet, it 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.580 is hackable from refrigerators to your ring doorbell or whatever. 0:15:29.700 --> 0:15:32.760 You know, if it's not got decent security, the hackers, 0:15:32.820 --> 0:15:34.489 I guess, are going all over the place. 0:15:34.780 --> 0:15:37.790 This is another vote for living in a jar. See 0:15:37.910 --> 0:15:38.350 our two. 0:15:39.710 --> 0:15:45.510 The default administrator password for this, the the. temperature controller 0:15:45.570 --> 0:15:49.120 that's involved in a lot of these places, these freezers, 0:15:50.030 --> 0:15:54.160 the default administrator password is 12345. And a lot of 0:15:54.220 --> 0:15:57.780 supermarket chains or its people don't change the password. I wouldn't. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.980 I would just leave it to whatever it was. I'm 0:16:00.020 --> 0:16:02.260 not going to put a new password on my freezer. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:03.740 Why do we even have a password, I would think. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.540 Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. But if it is 0:16:07.590 --> 0:16:09.450 connected to the Internet, it's got to have a password, 0:16:09.470 --> 0:16:12.610 and it better not be 12345. The other interesting aspect 0:16:12.650 --> 0:16:15.250 of the long report I read on it, was that 0:16:16.230 --> 0:16:20.530 somebody or other, where is this? Researchers at the cybersecurity 0:16:20.590 --> 0:16:25.730 firm Clarity successfully used Anthropix Cloud after the French cyber 0:16:25.750 --> 0:16:28.130 attacks last month to build a test program to attack 0:16:28.170 --> 0:16:33.090 refrigerator systems. It took them 30 minutes and $ 6. With AI, 0:16:33.110 --> 0:16:35.510 you just prompt it and get a coffee, said the 0:16:35.630 --> 0:16:41.390 chief technology officer. Interesting. Hot and cold running cyber attacks 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.580 is my prediction for I don't know until we figure 0:16:44.620 --> 0:16:45.420 out what to do about it. 0:16:45.420 --> 0:16:50.590 It could be just a weirdo, right? It's like, why 0:16:50.630 --> 0:16:54.970 do you vandalize the park equipment? 0:16:55.410 --> 0:16:56.690 Yeah, a vandal. 0:16:56.810 --> 0:16:57.490 It's a vandal, yeah. 0:16:58.290 --> 0:16:58.430 Yeah. 0:16:59.090 --> 0:17:01.770 It could be that. That'd actually be better news than 0:17:01.790 --> 0:17:03.540 if it's Putin sending a message. I can reach out 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:04.800 and touch you in so many different ways. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:06.940 Yeah. Yeah. 0:17:07.540 --> 0:17:09.639 There's so many with everything hooked to the Internet. If 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.270 the Chinese decide to attack Taiwan and they want to 0:17:12.310 --> 0:17:15.270 disrupt the United States or Russia or whoever does that, 0:17:15.450 --> 0:17:18.090 there's so many different ways to do it. Power plants, 0:17:18.190 --> 0:17:21.310 cell phones, freezers at grocery stores is one I had 0:17:21.450 --> 0:17:22.830 didn't have on my radar. 0:17:23.750 --> 0:17:23.970 Sure. 0:17:24.230 --> 0:17:24.450 Yeah. 0:17:24.790 --> 0:17:24.970 Yeah. 0:17:25.050 --> 0:17:28.350 Use your imagination. It's all on the table. And Xi 0:17:28.369 --> 0:17:31.470 Jinping has a building full of the smartest people in China, 0:17:31.490 --> 0:17:34.080 the smartest computer people in China working on that very 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.300 thing right now, as we speak. And they're building ships 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.060 for the Navy as fast as they can. 0:17:41.300 --> 0:17:47.219 So the biggest online dating company in the world is 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:52.760 saying no AI bots on our site because they're worried 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.700 about people just using AI bots. And then what's the point? 0:17:55.740 --> 0:17:57.590 Which is kind of an interesting topic and fits in 0:17:57.609 --> 0:18:00.480 with other things. It's a New York Times guest essay today. 0:18:00.890 --> 0:18:02.050 Maybe we'll get to that a little bit later. 0:18:02.730 --> 0:18:06.419 And as we scan the horizon for interesting and wise 0:18:07.060 --> 0:18:10.080 autopsies of the recent election, we've come across a couple 0:18:10.100 --> 0:18:13.720 of people who are very, very stupid who are commenting 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.459 on it as well. So we'll share those with you 0:18:15.510 --> 0:18:16.090 next half hour. 0:18:16.350 --> 0:18:18.710 New York Times has got a great inside the war 0:18:18.770 --> 0:18:22.030 room in recent days of the Trump people. There's some 0:18:22.070 --> 0:18:26.490 interesting nuggets in that. Of just how bad the gallows 0:18:26.530 --> 0:18:27.990 humor was leading up to the election. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.220 They saw it coming. Struck you as authentic, huh? 0:18:30.500 --> 0:18:30.719 Oh, yeah. 0:18:32.030 --> 0:18:53.040 Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.659 Now, look, I mean, if I were in the ballot, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:57.320 we would have won. 0:18:57.820 --> 0:19:00.500 You saw the people that were packed, thousands and thousands 0:19:00.540 --> 0:19:01.639 of people at every rally. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:03.980 And if I was on the ballot, we would have won. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.930 But you couldn't transfer that love. 0:19:06.950 --> 0:19:08.570 There was such love at those rallies. 0:19:08.590 --> 0:19:09.409 It was incredible. 0:19:10.330 --> 0:19:12.770 We weren't able to transfer the love to candidates. 0:19:13.530 --> 0:19:17.730 Vice President Vance says the reason Republicans lost last night 0:19:17.790 --> 0:19:20.050 was the war in Iran. 0:19:20.109 --> 0:19:24.040 Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the 0:19:24.140 --> 0:19:27.600 gasoline up a little bit short term. And probably that's... 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.359 probably it's true but at the same time if i 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:31.780 had it to do again i'd have to do it 0:19:31.820 --> 0:19:34.679 again because long term uh it's the only answer you 0:19:34.700 --> 0:19:38.300 can't let iran have a nuclear weapon i do yeah 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.160 i can't let iran have a nuclear weapon or everything 0:19:41.180 --> 0:19:46.189 that you see here someday might not exist so. 0:19:45.950 --> 0:19:49.630 Do you think trump understood what vance did right there 0:19:49.710 --> 0:19:55.090 so the reporting by Fox yesterday was that, uh, all your, uh, 0:19:56.090 --> 0:19:58.370 important people there in the white house gathered together. What's 0:19:58.410 --> 0:20:00.630 our messaging going to be coming out of last night's 0:20:00.710 --> 0:20:04.210 ass kicking and Vance immediately runs to the Twitter machine 0:20:04.410 --> 0:20:06.850 and tweets out a, his reason for it, which wasn't 0:20:06.890 --> 0:20:10.520 what they were going to say, obviously. Um, got ahead 0:20:10.540 --> 0:20:13.490 of their messaging. You think Trump understands what's going on there? 0:20:14.890 --> 0:20:16.510 Yeah, I think he does. 0:20:16.810 --> 0:20:17.270 Probably. 0:20:17.850 --> 0:20:20.550 Yeah, I suspect so. I just like this line that 0:20:20.590 --> 0:20:22.150 he couldn't transfer the love. 0:20:22.170 --> 0:20:23.750 That's all I'm trying to do, baby. I'm trying to 0:20:23.790 --> 0:20:24.490 transfer my love. 0:20:25.230 --> 0:20:32.630 Yeah, you can't transfer love. Yeah, you'll just have to wait. Beautiful. 0:20:33.369 --> 0:20:37.500 So New York Times with an interesting piece today. They're liberals. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:37.770 They are. 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.080 I give more credit to any story that includes Jonathan Swan. 0:20:43.420 --> 0:20:46.020 And this one does. I've seen the enemy and it 0:20:46.100 --> 0:20:49.060 is us inside Team Trump's historic collapse. I'll just give 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:50.310 you a little bit of this because we don't need 0:20:50.330 --> 0:20:52.710 to spend a lot of time on this. The Washington 0:20:52.750 --> 0:20:54.470 Post has got a good article about what the Democrats 0:20:54.510 --> 0:20:56.910