WEBVTT - It's So Cool Until It Kills Us 0:00:05.170 --> 0:00:09.020 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.020 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:11.100 --> 0:00:14.840 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:20.530 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:28.740 Ah, the rhythm of life is back. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:33.290 Kids at school, 60 Minutes is new, NFL football games, 0:00:33.350 --> 0:00:34.170 all that sort of stuff. 0:00:34.210 --> 0:00:35.990 Soon-to-be playoff baseball. Loving it all. 0:00:36.909 --> 0:00:37.290 Excellent. 0:00:37.650 --> 0:00:37.970 Excellent. 0:00:38.010 --> 0:00:41.610 You could mournfully mourn the summer passing, but I like 0:00:41.630 --> 0:00:44.340 your forward-looking take on the challenge attitude. 0:00:44.420 --> 0:00:44.960 Way to go. 0:00:45.020 --> 0:00:45.740 You got to look forward. 0:00:46.420 --> 0:00:47.140 Yes, you do. 0:00:48.780 --> 0:00:49.620 What was I going to say? 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:49.820 Oh. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.960 So Friday, as we talked about a lot, was the 0:00:53.980 --> 0:00:56.800 25-year anniversary of 9-11, got a lot of coverage. The 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.380 day before, the 10th, was the one-year anniversary of the 0:01:00.420 --> 0:01:06.389 assassination of Charlie Kirk, which is a horrifying event to some, 0:01:06.709 --> 0:01:10.209 but a gleeful event to others, it turns out, which 0:01:10.270 --> 0:01:13.670 is highly troubling. So where did they do this man-on-the-street stuff? 0:01:15.270 --> 0:01:18.010 I believe it was in the Philadelphia environs. 0:01:19.110 --> 0:01:21.230 I'm sure you could do it lots of different places 0:01:21.390 --> 0:01:24.720 where they just ask some people what they felt about 0:01:24.740 --> 0:01:25.940 the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:26.760 This is what they had to say. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.039 What are your thoughts on Charlie Kirk? 0:01:30.180 --> 0:01:31.920 He got everything that was coming to him, and I 0:01:31.970 --> 0:01:32.860 wish it had been longer. 0:01:33.890 --> 0:01:36.410 So do you think it was good that he was assassinated? 0:01:36.430 --> 0:01:39.290 I think it was hilarious that he was assassinated. 0:01:40.010 --> 0:01:41.250 How do you feel about Charlie Kirk? 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:43.620 I feel fantastic. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.580 I mean, I think he had what was coming to 0:01:45.620 --> 0:01:47.750 him personally. And why did he deserve to die? 0:01:48.390 --> 0:01:50.790 Well, he did say that, you know, gun deaths, you 0:01:50.830 --> 0:01:53.110 need at least one to make guns worth it. 0:01:53.250 --> 0:01:54.510 So I think his was it. 0:01:55.390 --> 0:01:56.370 I don't think. 0:01:57.830 --> 0:02:01.810 That sort of talk would have happened or gone unremarked 0:02:01.890 --> 0:02:06.620 upon 20 years ago, no matter who it was that 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:07.160 got shot. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.560 We just didn't talk that way back then. Back then. 0:02:11.020 --> 0:02:13.320 Not that many years ago. Anyway, here's more of that. 0:02:16.650 --> 0:02:21.130 Rest in hell. Do you condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk? Condemn? 0:02:23.830 --> 0:02:24.190 I don't know. 0:02:24.250 --> 0:02:26.269 When it happened, I didn't really care, to be honest. 0:02:26.330 --> 0:02:29.570 I'm not even going to lie. My reaction was to laugh. 0:02:29.590 --> 0:02:33.350 And then when I saw the video, I was like, okay. 0:02:34.350 --> 0:02:35.790 And yeah, that was kind of my reaction. 0:02:36.490 --> 0:02:38.380 Kind of speaking to what I was talking about earlier, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.590 about young people have seen so much grotesque violence online, 0:02:42.710 --> 0:02:44.630 it doesn't leave a mark at all. 0:02:45.850 --> 0:02:53.150 Yeah, I was going to withhold my comments, other than... Well, 0:02:53.350 --> 0:02:57.530 let's go ahead and play the last one. What do 0:02:57.550 --> 0:02:58.230 you like to talk? 0:02:59.910 --> 0:03:00.989 Why is it F. Charlie Kirk? 0:03:01.850 --> 0:03:02.650 He's a racist. 0:03:02.750 --> 0:03:04.170 I'm glad that n * * * a' s dead. F * * * 0:03:04.190 --> 0:03:06.450 Charlie Kirk. How is he a racist? How is he 0:03:06.490 --> 0:03:07.329 a racist? You a b * * * h, that's 0:03:07.370 --> 0:03:08.050 not true. You know that? 0:03:08.090 --> 0:03:09.149 How so? You a b * * * h, that's 0:03:09.190 --> 0:03:09.510 not true, bro. 0:03:09.550 --> 0:03:11.670 I'm not talking to you. 0:03:11.750 --> 0:03:13.410 I'm not the one walking away from a conversation. 0:03:13.430 --> 0:03:18.450 Yeah, so you got a handful of things going on there. 0:03:18.570 --> 0:03:20.650 And to your point, I think one of them is 0:03:20.690 --> 0:03:24.389 not only do they see horrifying death and bloodshed and 0:03:24.410 --> 0:03:27.250 stuff online to the point that they become desensitized to. 0:03:27.230 --> 0:03:28.190 It, but also. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.660 When so much of your experience is online, human beings 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:38.360 become abstractions. They're kind of just Charlie Kirk was another 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:43.310 character on my screen. He does not have the reality. And, 0:03:43.970 --> 0:03:45.990 you know, you're always talking about are we the last 0:03:46.030 --> 0:03:50.690 generation and experienced life pre, you know, online life. If 0:03:50.850 --> 0:03:53.550 I see someone die on a screen, my reaction is 0:03:53.650 --> 0:03:57.350 based on my entire life's experience, which is experiencing human 0:03:57.390 --> 0:04:01.140 beings as human beings, other than like TV sitcom characters. 0:04:02.780 --> 0:04:05.300 A lot of these kids, most of their experience of 0:04:05.340 --> 0:04:11.140 other human beings is screen deep. And so they can't even, 0:04:11.420 --> 0:04:14.420 even if they wanted to, they have a hard time 0:04:14.580 --> 0:04:17.099 relating to an actual human being who felt a bullet 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.750 rip through his throat and realized he was going to 0:04:19.790 --> 0:04:21.870 die in that moment, realized he would never see his 0:04:21.930 --> 0:04:23.880 wife and children again. And his kids would grow up 0:04:23.890 --> 0:04:26.620 without him. And he bled out on the pavement. They, they, 0:04:27.900 --> 0:04:31.420 it's not that they don't want to appreciate that. I'm 0:04:31.460 --> 0:04:32.440 not sure they can. 0:04:32.900 --> 0:04:34.520 No, I don't think they can either. I know my 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.300 son can't and it disturbs me that he can't. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.750 Well, and then you've got the indoctrination and you know, 0:04:40.770 --> 0:04:41.529 I threatened to do this. 0:04:41.570 --> 0:04:42.070 I never did. 0:04:42.089 --> 0:04:46.200 Um, And what I threaten to do is talk about 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:52.700 Mao Zedong in the Cultural Revolutions, the way they ensured obedience, 0:04:53.339 --> 0:04:56.660 compliance with their policies. And it had to do with 0:04:56.779 --> 0:05:01.619 dividing humanity into two groups, the good and the evil, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.080 to grossly oversimplify it. But since the kids are getting 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.610 taught a lot of that woke stuff in school– they've 0:05:09.650 --> 0:05:13.360 now equated, well, quoting, I can't remember who said this. 0:05:13.420 --> 0:05:15.120 I should have written it down. It might've been James Lindsay, 0:05:15.140 --> 0:05:19.339 but political disagreement is increasingly treated as a serious moral 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.980 offense rather than a simple difference of opinion. When you 0:05:23.020 --> 0:05:25.849 see the world that way, punishing someone for holding different 0:05:25.930 --> 0:05:30.770 views becomes a moral good. And that's a good explanation 0:05:30.830 --> 0:05:34.849 of Mao's thing too. But yeah, so those people, young 0:05:34.910 --> 0:05:39.550 people who are disgusting and horrifying to me, They were 0:05:39.690 --> 0:05:47.610 taught Charlie Kirk was a murderously hateful character. Therefore, to 0:05:47.650 --> 0:05:51.710 celebrate his assassinations like celebrating the fact that Hitler finally 0:05:51.740 --> 0:05:54.640 killed himself in the bunker morally to them. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:57.040 Yeah, it's pretty troubling. 0:05:58.020 --> 0:06:00.400 I'd rather demonize the people who taught them that than 0:06:00.460 --> 0:06:02.279 to demonize the young dolts. 0:06:03.820 --> 0:06:04.060 Right. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:05.660 Yeah, they didn't raise themselves. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:07.380 Yeah. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.940 I don't know if there's any turning this around, but 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.460 I get, as I've said many, many times, I get 0:06:13.540 --> 0:06:17.540 flipped off regularly, angrily flipped off, not even just like 0:06:17.580 --> 0:06:22.719 a casual joking flip off because I see their face 0:06:22.779 --> 0:06:28.219 and sometimes the just angry, F you, because I'm driving 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.960 a Tesla Cybertruck and They don't like the fact that 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.360 Elon helped Trump. I can't even wrap my head around 0:06:36.420 --> 0:06:39.460 being that angry about what somebody else is driving. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.540 But I get that on a regular basis, and it 0:06:41.580 --> 0:06:43.580 makes me so disturbed. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.210 Not because I give a crap what anybody thinks about 0:06:48.490 --> 0:06:50.570 how I dress, how I drive, anything like that, but 0:06:50.630 --> 0:06:53.490 just that people can get that angry about politics. As 0:06:53.529 --> 0:06:57.130 I've said before, I guarantee you that for those people, 0:06:57.350 --> 0:07:00.870 if if somebody was beating me down because of that, 0:07:01.130 --> 0:07:03.400 they would think that was awesome. He got what he deserved. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:04.520 Like they said about Charlie Kirk. 0:07:05.540 --> 0:07:08.480 Well, that's not a political disagreement treated as a serious 0:07:08.540 --> 0:07:09.200 moral offense. 0:07:09.380 --> 0:07:11.320 That is not a good place for society to be. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.340 No, no. 0:07:12.780 --> 0:07:15.920 So, uh, a couple other exhibits, uh, in the prosecution 0:07:15.940 --> 0:07:19.120 of the modern world, if you will. Um, and a 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:23.140 number of people have written about this, uh, filmmaker, Lexi Alexander, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.510 who directed a movie called green street hooligans. That was, uh, 0:07:28.050 --> 0:07:30.150 Daniel Radcliffe was in it, and I can't remember who else. 0:07:31.450 --> 0:07:36.210 It's about hooliganism and alleged white nationalism in Britain and 0:07:36.390 --> 0:07:37.850 that sort of thing. It was a pretty big deal, 0:07:37.930 --> 0:07:40.510 and it's very, very well made. But when that poor 0:07:40.670 --> 0:07:44.190 young woman, that young mother who just ended maternity leave 0:07:44.210 --> 0:07:46.710 and went back to work for Bank of America got 0:07:46.830 --> 0:07:49.080 stabbed to death on the street by that lunatic in 0:07:49.140 --> 0:07:53.250 New York City, she celebrated it. She put out, uh, 0:07:53.410 --> 0:07:57.630 memes of like the bat light, except instead of the bat, it's, uh, 0:07:57.790 --> 0:08:02.310 Luigi Mangione celebrating that this woman had been stabbed because 0:08:02.420 --> 0:08:04.740 she's one of the evildoers. This gal happens to be 0:08:04.780 --> 0:08:06.940 Palestinian American for what that's worth. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.080 Um, that's. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.730 Bizarre in the true sense of the word. So strange 0:08:14.790 --> 0:08:20.830 as to be difficult to comprehend. Um, That idea that, 0:08:20.950 --> 0:08:23.570 and back to the whole political disagreement, is a serious 0:08:23.670 --> 0:08:31.920 moral failing. And then she explained it. Israel doesn't care 0:08:31.980 --> 0:08:33.640 about the woman who got killed. They care about the 0:08:33.700 --> 0:08:36.260 positive rating Bank of America gave them in the middle 0:08:36.300 --> 0:08:41.170 of a genocide. There is huge money at stake. Okay, 0:08:41.190 --> 0:08:45.790 so a young mom bleeding out on the pavement is good. Okay, sorry, 0:08:45.809 --> 0:08:48.570 I didn't really, I didn't follow you there. Here's another 0:08:48.630 --> 0:08:53.719 article about how Barron Trump lives an extremely reclusive life 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.040 because of the assassination attempts on his dad. And also, 0:08:58.100 --> 0:09:01.640 he'd grown close to Charlie Kirk. They were actual friends. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.490 And so he more or less lives in hiding because 0:09:07.510 --> 0:09:10.370 of the political violence and the number of both. There's 0:09:10.390 --> 0:09:13.590 a specific Iranian plot against him. There's a $ 10 million 0:09:13.650 --> 0:09:17.360 bounty on his head from Iran. And, you know, we 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.280 never got to it. I read the headline. They're now 0:09:19.450 --> 0:09:25.550 hiring local criminals all over the world to do their bidding. 0:09:25.690 --> 0:09:28.270 Like there was a case in Romania where they hired 0:09:28.309 --> 0:09:31.670 some local gangsters to beat down an Iranian dissident. And 0:09:31.690 --> 0:09:33.990 there was an incident, I think it was in France, 0:09:34.070 --> 0:09:37.530 that was fairly similar. So, yeah, the poor, poor kid 0:09:37.770 --> 0:09:42.530 has got, I mean, you know, all presidential kids, they're 0:09:42.570 --> 0:09:46.720 protected and keep a low-ish profile. Well, like the Obama 0:09:46.820 --> 0:09:51.030 girls went to a private school in Washington, D.C., but 0:09:51.070 --> 0:09:52.309 they went to the damn school. 0:09:52.530 --> 0:09:56.309 Well, yeah, I actually know someone who protected one of 0:09:56.330 --> 0:09:58.970 the Bush daughters all through her college years, following her 0:09:58.990 --> 0:10:02.320 around for part of her life. and bars and sorority houses, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.020 stuff like that. But they didn't really live in fear. 0:10:05.820 --> 0:10:10.760 Right, right, exactly. Yeah, it's just, oh, it was going 0:10:10.780 --> 0:10:15.699 to bring me ultimately to this. Yet another poll, Americans 0:10:15.780 --> 0:10:21.099 who find killing acceptable. One in six tell pollsters they're 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:27.910 okay with assassination. 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Roughgreens, 0:11:39.350 --> 0:11:40.970 they make any dog food better. 0:11:41.170 --> 0:11:43.130 I guess quickly following up on what I said about 0:11:43.190 --> 0:11:44.809 ignorant at best, evil at worst. 0:11:45.230 --> 0:11:46.390 Hey, morons. 0:11:47.330 --> 0:11:49.020 If you're okay with assassination, you. 0:11:48.929 --> 0:11:52.660 See what happens is some people on the other side 0:11:52.780 --> 0:11:56.020 start assassinating the men and women you like. 0:11:57.130 --> 0:11:59.970 And then it's just a race to the bottom, you see, 0:12:00.330 --> 0:12:00.870 is the thing. 0:12:01.950 --> 0:12:03.370 Yeah, yeah. 0:12:03.429 --> 0:12:06.400 That would stick with them better if they didn't view 0:12:06.780 --> 0:12:09.120 people on the other side as evil. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.860 But we're the good people. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:17.330 So assassinating us would be totally different than assassinating the 0:12:17.450 --> 0:12:20.690 evil people would be their point of view, which is 0:12:20.890 --> 0:12:23.610 obviously the sort of thing that leads you down the 0:12:23.650 --> 0:12:26.209 road you're describing. So an Emerson poll came out a 0:12:26.230 --> 0:12:31.240 couple of weeks ago. It was asking about Luigi Mangione, 0:12:31.380 --> 0:12:37.729 the deranged, misguided, barely 20-something idiot. Were his actions acceptable 0:12:37.770 --> 0:12:42.090 or unacceptable? And 16.7% of respondents said his actions were 0:12:42.110 --> 0:12:46.670 either completely acceptable or somewhat acceptable. This is not a fluke. 0:12:46.710 --> 0:12:48.340 It's the same finding as the firm's 2024 poll, December 0:12:48.340 --> 0:12:49.500 2024 poll. So about 17% or one out of six said, 0:12:55.290 --> 0:12:59.170 And after 20 months, the public trial, national news coverage, 0:12:59.210 --> 0:13:03.220 the number has held steady. Public opinion had every opportunity 0:13:03.250 --> 0:13:06.700 to self-correct, and it hasn't. It means that Americans' tolerance 0:13:06.740 --> 0:13:09.760 for political violence is becoming hardwired into the public consciousness, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.530 they write. Let's see, this is Adrian Norman writing. And 0:13:14.550 --> 0:13:17.110 the violence isn't limited to one type of victim, and 0:13:17.570 --> 0:13:23.319 it isn't confined to the opinion polls. Federal prosecutors argued 0:13:23.380 --> 0:13:26.580 in an August 2025 court filing that the killing of Mr. 0:13:26.620 --> 0:13:30.000 Thompson helped inspire the mass shooting at the National Football 0:13:30.020 --> 0:13:31.880 League headquarters a month prior. 0:13:33.380 --> 0:13:34.240 Simply put, Mr. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.600 Mangione hoped to normalize the use of violence to achieve 0:13:36.660 --> 0:13:39.800 ideological or political objectives since the murder of certain quarters 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.319 of the public who openly identify as acolytes of the defendant. 0:13:42.710 --> 0:13:45.309 have increasingly begun to view violence as an acceptable or 0:13:45.350 --> 0:13:49.469 even necessary substitute for reasoned political disagreement. Well, and if 0:13:49.510 --> 0:13:51.910 you tended not to believe that, if you were taught 0:13:52.050 --> 0:13:54.720 every day in school or damn near every day that 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:59.100 their speech is violence, and we've talked about this before, 0:13:59.740 --> 0:14:02.340 if speech is violence, then of course you can answer 0:14:02.380 --> 0:14:07.010 it with violence because every human society recognizes the right 0:14:07.050 --> 0:14:12.780 to self-defense. But To justify our violence, that's just in 0:14:12.820 --> 0:14:15.199 response to speech. First, we've got to teach the kids 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.240 that their speech is violence. It goes right back to 0:14:19.180 --> 0:14:22.520 the educational system and how it's been captured by leftist lunatics. 0:14:23.620 --> 0:14:25.360 So a couple of tech things coming up. 0:14:25.420 --> 0:14:28.080 Left-handers are hating the new foldable iPhone. 0:14:28.140 --> 0:14:30.740 How I used AI in my summer. 0:14:30.780 --> 0:14:31.400 Who do I sue? 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.480 Also, a tip I'm taking to look at your phone 0:14:35.500 --> 0:14:36.859 less that I think might be working. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.680 Looking at it less. All coming up. 0:14:38.710 --> 0:14:49.120 Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. 0:14:48.270 --> 0:14:50.180 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:14:52.450 --> 0:14:54.550 When we look at the hardware design for the iPhone Duo, 0:14:54.590 --> 0:14:57.490 you'll notice it has an asymmetrical design with sharp right 0:14:57.510 --> 0:14:59.930 corners on the hinge side and soft rounded corners on 0:14:59.950 --> 0:15:00.580 the outside. 0:15:00.740 --> 0:15:02.400 And they do this intentionally. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.440 So you can have a nice soft rounded edge resting 0:15:04.500 --> 0:15:07.180 on your hand rather than a sharp corner stabbing into 0:15:07.220 --> 0:15:09.500 your palm. But even worse than that, the iPhone Duo 0:15:09.580 --> 0:15:12.320 also had a major software change because instead of having 0:15:12.340 --> 0:15:15.350 your home screen dock, toolbars and app controls on the 0:15:15.490 --> 0:15:18.090 bottom of your phone like they always were, now they're 0:15:18.110 --> 0:15:20.630 gonna be on the right hand side. But if you're left-handed, 0:15:20.650 --> 0:15:22.729 you're going to have a sharp right corner stabbing the 0:15:22.750 --> 0:15:24.210 palm of your hand, and you're going to have to 0:15:24.250 --> 0:15:27.090 reach all the way across an even wider phone just 0:15:27.110 --> 0:15:28.190 to send a text message. 0:15:30.670 --> 0:15:34.260 So there's some guy claiming that the new Apple foldable 0:15:34.380 --> 0:15:36.160 iPhone is unfair to left-handers. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.560 Apple stabs left-handers. That's my headline. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.780 I've taken in a lot of these review videos on 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.460 different things over the last couple of years. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:44.580 God, some of the. 0:15:45.670 --> 0:15:48.790 so-called problems are so overblown in these reviews. I mean, 0:15:48.810 --> 0:15:50.670 you got to talk about something, but I did that 0:15:50.700 --> 0:15:52.820 with a lot of vehicles I've purchased and stuff like that. 0:15:52.860 --> 0:15:54.820 And then you get the car and it's like, okay, 0:15:54.860 --> 0:15:57.140 the cup holder's a little further up than I would 0:15:57.180 --> 0:15:57.680 like it to be. 0:15:57.820 --> 0:15:58.780 Maybe, I don't know. 0:15:58.820 --> 0:16:03.120 I can't imagine doing a 15 minute video about it. 0:16:03.620 --> 0:16:06.400 Anyway, back to the tech thing. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.080 And I think I want to get that iPhone because 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.900 I take in every TV show, movies, sports, football games, 0:16:11.940 --> 0:16:14.080 everything on my phone. So it'd be handy for me 0:16:14.100 --> 0:16:14.740 to have that screen. 0:16:16.820 --> 0:16:17.540 Two things I've done. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.530 I read a little piece in the New York Times 0:16:21.570 --> 0:16:23.710 about ways to look at your phone less, and one 0:16:23.730 --> 0:16:26.510 of them was to turn the picture to grayscale instead 0:16:26.550 --> 0:16:28.970 of the colors, because part of the dopamine hit is 0:16:29.010 --> 0:16:32.300 the lurid, bright, vivid colors that you get. So I 0:16:32.340 --> 0:16:35.560 turned my phone to the grayscale, and it is much, much, 0:16:35.820 --> 0:16:37.540 much less satisfying to look at. 0:16:38.060 --> 0:16:38.920 How interesting. 0:16:39.060 --> 0:16:39.600 I know. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.970 I was surprised myself. It's just kind of like to 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.730 look at it is kind of what a letdown. 0:16:46.090 --> 0:16:47.370 So where is that? 0:16:47.430 --> 0:16:50.350 Is that in settings? We're in settings. 0:16:50.630 --> 0:16:53.110 And the key is because sometimes you want the color, 0:16:53.510 --> 0:16:56.550 like especially if you're doing photos or watching videos. So 0:16:56.590 --> 0:16:59.369 I did the shortcut to where you triple click the 0:16:59.430 --> 0:17:01.310 right hand button. I can switch it to color real 0:17:01.330 --> 0:17:03.010 quick if I want to do a picture, then switch 0:17:03.050 --> 0:17:04.629 it back to gray. So I'm going to keep my 0:17:04.670 --> 0:17:06.580 phone that way from here on out because it is. 0:17:07.100 --> 0:17:11.240 Definitely less stimulating and exciting to look at a gray phone. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:12.820 One other tech thing. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.629 For better or worse, I showed my son a way 0:17:16.670 --> 0:17:19.210 to use AI for a homework assignment he had yesterday, 0:17:19.250 --> 0:17:21.790 which I thought was pretty handy. He got this assignment 0:17:21.810 --> 0:17:24.110 in English. He gets to pick a book to read, 0:17:24.170 --> 0:17:28.199 but it had some limits on what books he could read. 0:17:28.210 --> 0:17:29.659 It had to be a certain number of pages. It 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.560 had to be blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all these lists. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.540 I said, we could try this. I just took a 0:17:33.619 --> 0:17:36.860 picture of it. Put it on Claude and said, my 0:17:36.940 --> 0:17:39.550 freshman in high school needs to follow these rules for books, 0:17:39.609 --> 0:17:43.010 suggest some books. And it suggested like 10 different kinds 0:17:43.030 --> 0:17:44.310 of books. If you'd like this kind of book, if 0:17:44.330 --> 0:17:45.690 you'd like this kind of book, if you'd like this 0:17:45.730 --> 0:17:50.050 kind of book. And we picked Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 0:17:50.070 --> 0:17:52.550 is the right page length and skill level and everything 0:17:52.609 --> 0:17:55.290 like that. And I thought that was a really handy 0:17:55.330 --> 0:17:56.300 way to use AI. 0:17:56.910 --> 0:17:57.080 Yeah. 0:17:57.170 --> 0:17:58.580 Oh, yeah, definitely. Love it. 0:17:59.270 --> 0:18:01.100 God, the way it can just take a picture of 0:18:01.150 --> 0:18:04.119 something and it reads it for you and comprehends it 0:18:04.180 --> 0:18:04.700 is amazing. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.160 It's great up until the moment it kills us all. 0:18:07.220 --> 0:18:10.760 Yeah, I used it for hours yesterday trying to plan 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.900 a vacation using all sorts of different possibilities and scenarios 0:18:14.940 --> 0:18:18.480 and combinations. It was wonderfully, wonderfully productive. And then we'll 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.870 all be dead, but we'll be productive until that moment. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.070 Until it kills us, it is so cool. 0:18:23.990 --> 0:18:25.810 More on the way. If you're missing this podcast, Armstrong 0:18:25.850 --> 0:18:26.450 and Getty on demand. 0:18:26.490 --> 0:18:27.590 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:37.590 --> 0:18:39.510 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:41.530 --> 0:18:43.929 Well, we certainly need to begin to act urgently to 0:18:43.990 --> 0:18:48.119 address the challenges that exist. And unfortunately, Republicans have abandoned 0:18:48.130 --> 0:18:54.280 their responsibility. So under Speaker Mike Johnson, he killed a 0:18:54.340 --> 0:18:58.000 bipartisan task force, this Congress, that was prepared to do 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.270 the serious work necessary to to try to erect the 0:19:01.310 --> 0:19:04.470 guardrails to protect the health, the safety, the well-being of 0:19:04.490 --> 0:19:05.190 the American people. 0:19:05.490 --> 0:19:06.630 Talking about AI there. 0:19:06.670 --> 0:19:09.330 So that's Hakeem Jeffries likely to be the Speaker of 0:19:09.369 --> 0:19:10.229 the House soon. 0:19:10.250 --> 0:19:13.300 These Republicans sound like monsters. 0:19:13.619 --> 0:19:19.840 Saying Republicans have abandoned their responsibility around controlling AI. And 0:19:19.859 --> 0:19:24.240 Barack Obama speaking to a group yesterday behind closed doors 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.440 apparently said we've got to make this a central issue. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.260 For Democrats running for president and in Congress, and I 0:19:30.540 --> 0:19:33.380 really am worried that this is going to turn into 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.219 and I don't even it could go either direction. 0:19:35.460 --> 0:19:36.080 It's just like the. 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.590 Masks thing or the vaccines thing. Somehow it gets established 0:19:40.619 --> 0:19:42.990 that one side is for and one side is against. 0:19:43.609 --> 0:19:48.050 And then it's everybody gets locked into their positions because 0:19:48.070 --> 0:19:51.620 of their tribalism around their party. And the best example 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.620 is vaccines. For the past however many decades, it was 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:02.470 liberals who were anti-vaccine and Republicans calling them crazy for it. 0:20:02.580 --> 0:20:05.359 But then when COVID hit, for a variety of reasons, 0:20:05.420 --> 0:20:06.060 it got flipped. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:07.860 So you were anti-Trump. 0:20:10.630 --> 0:20:14.560 If you wanted to get vaccines and just, but if 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.399 that gets locked into AI where it's seen as a 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.180 partisan thing being for or against it, then we're really, 0:20:21.260 --> 0:20:21.979 really doomed. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:24.340 I hope that doesn't happen. 0:20:25.100 --> 0:20:28.300 When you ducked out fairly briefly last week to begin 0:20:28.340 --> 0:20:36.230 your journey, your jury odyssey, I was talking about, it 0:20:36.270 --> 0:20:41.410 had dawned on me the other day, how Directionality has 0:20:41.490 --> 0:20:45.570 taken over our society. And it's a term I'd never 0:20:45.609 --> 0:20:49.350 really even heard. Directionally, I agree with them. You know, 0:20:49.369 --> 0:20:52.650 they're trying to rein in AI. But we've become so 0:20:52.730 --> 0:20:56.629 tribal that you've got to go in the accepted direction 0:20:56.670 --> 0:21:01.590