Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty Armstrong and Getty. According to the.
Speaker 3: White House zappers, while visiting Donald Trump in the Oval Office,
Speaker 3: Elon Musk's four year old needed a diaper change. Luckily
Speaker 3: there was plenty left over from the previous tenant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that ten? I asked for ten? Was
Speaker 2: that joke?
Speaker 1: Ten?
Speaker 2: That was on joke? Ten? Huh?
Speaker 1: Okay, my joke TenneT joke was a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1: My Joe Pye was in continent? Is the point?
Speaker 2: My joke? Ten? Is Bill Maher Kanye West is getting
Speaker 2: a divorce? Is that joke? Ten?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Well, here I have that joke.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: Marriage is over, Biancusen sorry, and Kanye West of cold
Speaker 4: it quits. I I just hope this doesn't make Kanye
Speaker 4: do something stupid. Yeah, apparently it was. It was a
Speaker 4: while in coming. Try can I try to be sensitive?
Speaker 4: You said to her, it's not you, it's not me,
Speaker 4: it's the Jews.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty funny. It's not you, it's not me,
Speaker 2: it's the Jews.
Speaker 1: Kanye, It's so crazy. I hadn't heard that they're getting
Speaker 1: a divorce.
Speaker 2: So a week after she's naked looking like a hostage
Speaker 2: at the Grammys, they're getting a divorce. Her played a
Speaker 2: role in any way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Plus I heard something she's not down with the
Speaker 1: anti Semitism at all. And I hadn't understood exactly how
Speaker 1: that quote unquote super Bowl out of his got on
Speaker 1: where he rambles and says, go to my website. Then
Speaker 1: the only product that his website is a swastika T shirt.
Speaker 1: He had an ad agency by a local Super Bowl
Speaker 1: spot in every market he could around America, so Big
Speaker 1: Fox didn't air it. It was just on. I can't
Speaker 1: remember many dozens of local markets around America, that crazy
Speaker 1: ass commercial of his. And he's, man, is he headed
Speaker 1: for a big crack up?
Speaker 2: Well with what goal? Or do you just think he's
Speaker 2: actually nuts?
Speaker 1: Oh, he's got to just be nuts. I mean it
Speaker 1: could be he's an obsessive anti Semite in the vein
Speaker 1: of a certain Chancellor of Germany.
Speaker 2: But well, I don't think that's clearly nuts. I mean
Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but I don't think that's it.
Speaker 2: I don't he wants he wants people to be mad
Speaker 2: at him. He's got some sort of childish upset doing
Speaker 2: things to make people not like him so he can
Speaker 2: say people don't like him thing going. I mean, like
Speaker 2: his tweet about his tweet about I turned down three
Speaker 2: make a Wish kids and wheelchairs this week. I mean,
Speaker 2: he just he just wants people to be upset with
Speaker 2: him for some sad reason, and that he hasn't killed
Speaker 2: himself already is shocking to me. I think that's going
Speaker 2: to be a headline in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: But as usual, when you're talking about something like this,
Speaker 1: trying to come up with a rational explanation for crazy,
Speaker 1: you just you can't.
Speaker 2: He might be the richest mentally ill person in the world,
Speaker 2: and then can you know, kind of get away with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he were not independently wealthy, he would be living
Speaker 1: in a box somewhre absolutely just yeah, yeah, too bad, folks.
Speaker 1: Be grateful for your mental health to the extent that
Speaker 1: you have. Any Ah, So a headful of AI related
Speaker 1: stories that I found very interesting as we move further
Speaker 1: and further into this world. I've actually been using it
Speaker 1: a bit more in last week, partly because Apple updated
Speaker 1: their software, and I've had a couple of searches that
Speaker 1: they needed to use chat GPT to help with and
Speaker 1: it's been quite impressive, really, so I'm feeling more and
Speaker 1: more like at least I understand how some of it works.
Speaker 1: But anyway, a story number one is they did a
Speaker 1: couple of universities got together did a series of experiments
Speaker 1: where they were they had to volunteers pose as drone
Speaker 1: pilots making kill or no kill, shoot or no shoot decisions.
Speaker 1: And they would, you know, up the ante by showing
Speaker 1: them pictures of civilians hurt and killed by drone strikes
Speaker 1: and buildings damage and stuff like that. They made it
Speaker 1: as impactful as they could in a research setting. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's too bad this this article is written
Speaker 1: with way too much editorial, so I'll just summarize it
Speaker 1: for you. People seemed very willing to overcome their own thinking,
Speaker 1: or over turn their own thinking if the AI system
Speaker 1: said I disagree, even if it had been made infinitely
Speaker 1: clear to them that the AI system is unsophisticated and
Speaker 1: it makes mistakes. But they seemed in large numbers to
Speaker 1: defer to the computer, and amusingly, they tried it with
Speaker 1: like a primitive robot saying I would go ahead and
Speaker 1: shoot at them, and then turning very robotically. Then they
Speaker 1: used did a more sophisticated humanoid like robot, and then
Speaker 1: they just did a simple computer interface to suit that
Speaker 1: changed it, and it did a little bit.
Speaker 2: So the human psychology of this AI side is interesting.
Speaker 2: So that's it's like the famous trolley car problem. You
Speaker 2: will say, go ahead and run over the person if
Speaker 2: if something tells you to, if a supposed expert tells you.
Speaker 1: To, yeah, even if somebody makes clear to you, hey,
Speaker 1: this expert is wrong a fair amount. And the way
Speaker 1: they this experiment was they would show them pictures very
Speaker 1: quickly of their target, and that often included the symbol
Speaker 1: of either your side or the other side, either the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian flag or the Russian Z for instance, and and
Speaker 1: say shoot or don't shoot. And even though they'd programmed
Speaker 1: the AI to be random in its decisions so it
Speaker 1: was wrong as much as it was right, the people
Speaker 1: would refer to it in large numbers. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: just thought that was kind of interesting. We tend well,
Speaker 1: certain people tend to be very easily led, whether it's
Speaker 1: a human being or a technical beast like AI.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess that that explains the whole, not on
Speaker 2: purpose to get back to Germans and Nazi things, but
Speaker 2: the whole, the whole. I was just following orders thing.
Speaker 2: I guess that fits in with that. You're you're willing
Speaker 2: to do lots of things if somebody tells you to yeah,
Speaker 2: an expert tells you to yeah.
Speaker 1: To refer to a very famous parable, I guess it
Speaker 1: is about how among human beings there are sheep, there
Speaker 1: are wolves, there are sheep dogs, and the masses of
Speaker 1: folks are a little sheepy. And you know, you could
Speaker 1: be insulting about that and call them sheeple and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and I have in the past. But if
Speaker 1: that is the way most people are at some point,
Speaker 1: you have to realize that and be a realist about it.
Speaker 1: Founding Fathers work. That's why the designed so many checks
Speaker 1: and balances against somebody seizing dictatorial powers, because a lot
Speaker 1: of sheeple want a dictator because it's simple and they
Speaker 1: know what they're supposed to do in a dictatorship. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Another quick artificial intelligence story. New study shows that over
Speaker 1: aliance on artificial intelligence to perform certain tasks reduces critical thinking.
Speaker 1: Study conducted by Carnegie, Mellen and Microsoft who is working
Speaker 1: as hard as they can to get AI going, found
Speaker 1: that people who use AI regularly for basic routine tasks
Speaker 1: will lose their ability for complex critical thinking. From social
Speaker 1: workers to people who write code for a living, the
Speaker 1: professional surveyed, We're all asked to share real life examples,
Speaker 1: and the blah blah blah. The methodology is not that
Speaker 1: interesting and it's long. But of course, if you know,
Speaker 1: if I have a machine to shovel snow for me,
Speaker 1: my snow shoveling muscles are going to get less strong.
Speaker 1: And it's true intellectually too. Well.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this fits in with my example
Speaker 2: of it. I'm still the only person I've heard say this.
Speaker 2: I want to get it. I want to say it
Speaker 2: again because I want credit for it when it becomes
Speaker 2: a big thing, because I do think it's going to
Speaker 2: be a big thing. I'm a worst driver now because
Speaker 2: of the automatic driving in my Tesla. When I'm in
Speaker 2: my car without it, I'm not as I just don't
Speaker 2: pay as good attention because I got in the habit
Speaker 2: of something paying attention for me. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 2: that's why I had my motorcycle wreck because I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm it happens so quickly that my brain got retrained
Speaker 2: when I'm driving that I don't need to pay attention.
Speaker 2: There's a computer paying attention for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's undeniable, and that's going to become
Speaker 1: a real problem nationwide. There aren't enough people driving cars
Speaker 1: that have that technology yet, I guess. But similar sort
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 2: When something else can do it for you, you atrophy amazingly quickly.
Speaker 2: Apparently all of us.
Speaker 1: Have had the experience of like spacing off behind the wheel,
Speaker 1: and you'd like startle and you think, oh god, no,
Speaker 1: I got to pay attention. I gotta pay attention. If
Speaker 1: you systematically get trained, no, it's okay to space Offah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going to change your metal approach of course. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So a couple of quick words from the summary of
Speaker 1: this article, and then we will get to the funny
Speaker 1: AI story, or at least ironic. Researchers wrote in the
Speaker 1: paper that AI can result in the deterioration of cognitive
Speaker 1: faculties that ought to be preserved.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: A key irony of automation is that by mechanizing routine
Speaker 1: tasks and leaving exception handling to the human user. You
Speaker 1: deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their
Speaker 1: judgment and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving the matrophied and
Speaker 1: unprepared when the exceptions do arid.
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly what happened with the driving. It's
Speaker 2: just it happens with everything apparently that we use AI for.
Speaker 1: Wow, this reminds me of that internal study that Facebook
Speaker 1: did that said, Hey, this stuff's addictive and it'll wreck
Speaker 1: your minds. Don't let your kids do this anyway. Let's
Speaker 1: keep marketing to the suckers anyway. That's striking, especially because
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Speaker 1: feature about California versus Florida and policy and homeowners insurance.
Speaker 1: It is quite a striking difference. Anyway. All State Insurance
Speaker 1: was using AI models to write responses to letters speak
Speaker 1: in emails because they get zillions of them from customers,
Speaker 1: and All State is discovering these soulless, generative AI models
Speaker 1: made up entirely of data and code, are more empathetic
Speaker 1: than many of its human representatives.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: The insurer said that during the often frustrating back and
Speaker 1: forth between customers and claim reps after a claim is filed,
Speaker 1: nearly all of the All State emails are now generated
Speaker 1: by AI, and that as a result, they are less
Speaker 1: accusatory and jargony and more empathetic than the humans.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: All States using open eyes GPT model for what it's worth. Quote,
Speaker 1: when these emails used to go out, even though we
Speaker 1: had standards and so on, they would include a lot
Speaker 1: of insurance jargon. They weren't very empathetic, claims would claims
Speaker 1: agents would get frustrated, and so it wasn't necessarily great
Speaker 1: communications said their chief information officer.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. So have you found yourself doing this now
Speaker 2: that Google has the little AI summary at the top
Speaker 2: whenever you search anything. I've been using that a lot,
Speaker 2: and I don't almost exclusively, and I don't scroll down
Speaker 2: to check other things. I go with the little AI
Speaker 2: summary and assume it's right. I guess far superior.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, I'm not sure I'd say I
Speaker 1: assume it's right, but it's it's helpful. It's what I
Speaker 1: was looking for way, way, way more often than the
Speaker 1: useless just Google.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's succinct and it Yeah, that's something, and
Speaker 2: it'll get a lot better, I assume. With allso, with
Speaker 2: all the dangers of it choosing what it wants you
Speaker 2: to see inherent to the problem. We got a lot
Speaker 2: more on the waist here.
Speaker 5: And when you're trying to make that decision, do I
Speaker 5: feel safe flying? And I do very much. So there's
Speaker 5: no trend. There's nothing that ties these accidents together. So
Speaker 5: using critical thinking, you can say for yourself, do all
Speaker 5: of these things indicate some kind of trend in aircraft accidents?
Speaker 5: And to me, as an experienced investigator and being involved
Speaker 5: in aviation as a mechanic and as a safety inspector
Speaker 5: for the FAA. I'm perfectly I feel perfectly safe doing this.
Speaker 5: I don't see anything tying these together that says, oh,
Speaker 5: the FAA's bad or the system is a problem. So
Speaker 5: you got that plane landed in Canada on its upside down,
Speaker 5: which she's not supposed to do.
Speaker 2: Somebody should have told the pilot. And I had a
Speaker 2: number of people in my real life, because this is
Speaker 2: three and a couple of weeks, say what's going on
Speaker 2: with flying? And that guy's saying, nothing's going on with flying.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a real test of our ability to
Speaker 1: be rational as human beings. Since it just keeps popping up,
Speaker 1: you start to think maybe something's going on.
Speaker 2: Right. We mentioned this last week a little follow up
Speaker 2: on the asteroid that might hit the Earth in twenty
Speaker 2: thirty two. So they have spotted an asteroid way out
Speaker 2: there in outer space that is headed to Horde Earth,
Speaker 2: but it's so far away that it's difficult to nail
Speaker 2: down exactly where it's going to pass by. I mean,
Speaker 2: just imagine the tiniest bit of being off and measuring
Speaker 2: it from that far away would over that many gazillion
Speaker 2: miles turn into a pretty wide space. But it has
Speaker 2: a watch.
Speaker 1: Don't look up. I know how the process works.
Speaker 2: It has a two percent chance of hitting Earth in
Speaker 2: twenty thirty two, and as you said the other day,
Speaker 2: a one in fifty chance, ain't nothing. One in fifty
Speaker 2: of it hit and Earth. So this particular asteroid is
Speaker 2: forty to ninety meters wide, they do know that, which
Speaker 2: is what the length of a football field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, roughly.
Speaker 2: The thing that hit in the Yukton Peninsula that wiped
Speaker 2: out the dinosaurs was several kilometers, so is much bigger
Speaker 2: than that. So this isn't a wipes out Earth, wipes
Speaker 2: out human beings sort of asteroid. But it would would
Speaker 2: be a heck of a big deal wherever it hit,
Speaker 2: really big deal. And I don't know do we currently
Speaker 2: have the technology to intercept that. If fat is it
Speaker 2: gets closer, because that's seven years from now. As it
Speaker 2: gets closers, we I'm sure the one in fifty will
Speaker 2: get narrowed down as it gets closer. Just the math
Speaker 2: will get easier and if they can determine. Look, we
Speaker 2: got like an eighty percent chances is going to hit Earth.
Speaker 2: We got to intercept it right. With our modern technology.
Speaker 1: I would think we'd be able to nudge it successfully
Speaker 1: enough that it would move the Earth. But I've read
Speaker 1: scientists talking about this. How if it was say, aimed
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and and
Speaker 1: you came along as Nassa and said, now we think
Speaker 1: we can nudge it so it doesn't hurt it hit
Speaker 1: the earth completely. We'll be nudging it eastward a long way,
Speaker 1: and all the countries eastward not a long way like
Speaker 1: you know whatever. Actually that would be the United States udge.
Speaker 2: We'll say, nudge it into China.
Speaker 1: Let's go with westward for the sake of the argument.
Speaker 1: So we say, no, we're going to nudget so far
Speaker 1: west it doesn't even hit the earth. And all the
Speaker 1: countries of the west, China, India, you know, Russia, Europe
Speaker 1: are like, no, you're not nudging it west. How about
Speaker 1: you nudge Niche.
Speaker 2: So China sends up their spaceship, we send up our spaceship,
Speaker 2: and we're on both sides of the asteroid trying to
Speaker 2: push a different directions.
Speaker 1: Oh no, wrestling in space. It's gonna be an interesting
Speaker 1: media a death Come do your work.
Speaker 2: And what what how much time I got, Michael, I've
Speaker 2: got my biggest complaint of the weekend. Starbucks has changed
Speaker 2: their lids, and I'm outraged. They got rid of their
Speaker 2: plastic lids to be good for the earth, and they've
Speaker 2: got these paper lids now that you can't put a
Speaker 2: stopper in. He used to be able to put a
Speaker 2: little plastic stopper and so he could ride in your
Speaker 2: car and it doesn't spill. You can't do that anymore
Speaker 2: with their dumb paper lids. So that's the I emailed
Speaker 2: several people in Ukraine and told them how upset I was.
Speaker 1: Have Trump step in. He got rid of the paper straws.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can get rid of this garbage Starbucks.
Speaker 2: I hate your paper lids. You suck.
Speaker 1: Make coffee great again, exactly.
Speaker 2: Some really disturbing news about the budget so far this
Speaker 2: fiscal year that everybody should be paying attention to, but
Speaker 2: nobody is. Among other things we can talk about. I
Speaker 2: hope you can stay.
Speaker 1: Here, Armstrong and Getty. People are really scared.
Speaker 6: I think that you know, twelve days ago, people knew
Speaker 6: where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how
Speaker 6: they were going to pay for their kids' take care,
Speaker 6: their medical bills, and then all gone overnight.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make it clear that I'm not happy
Speaker 2: that this person is wondering where they're going to get
Speaker 2: their next paycheck or how they're going to survive, because
Speaker 2: you know, we most of us have been there at
Speaker 2: some point in our lives. But the fact that these
Speaker 2: government workers are unaware that the private sector lives this
Speaker 2: way all the time is amazing to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're in a different kind of bubble than the
Speaker 1: one we usually talk about. I would call it an
Speaker 1: employment reality bubble. They don't understand that the vast majority
Speaker 1: the world strikes that bargain. Yeah, our production, our skill,
Speaker 1: our value to the company will be high enough that
Speaker 1: they keep us until it's not. Then we got to
Speaker 1: find another gig.
Speaker 2: So let's play the intro from sixty minutes on this
Speaker 2: story last night. This was their first story about DOGE
Speaker 2: cutting USAID and all that sort of stuff yesterday.
Speaker 1: And enjoy the foreboding language used by Scott Pelly.
Speaker 7: It's too soon to tell how serious President Trump is
Speaker 7: in defiance of the Constitution. In his first twenty eight days,
Speaker 7: he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some
Speaker 7: a right guaranteed by the fourteenth Amendment, and he has
Speaker 7: closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law.
Speaker 7: Lower courts are holding up many of the president's priorities,
Speaker 7: but nothing has risen to the Supreme Court, where these
Speaker 7: battles over presidential power could rewrite history. Presidents often push
Speaker 7: limits FDR's New Deal, for example, and voters in this
Speaker 7: last election wanted change, but the scope and speed of
Speaker 7: Trump's reach for power may be unprecedented. One example is
Speaker 7: a sixty three year old agency created by Congress, codified
Speaker 7: in law, and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's an interesting reach for power that you're trying
Speaker 2: to shrink the government.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. And the idea that the fourteenth Amendment
Speaker 1: thing is clearly unconstitutional and he knows it and everybody
Speaker 1: knows it. And how shutting down USA temporarily when you
Speaker 1: reassess how it projects American power broad is somehow just
Speaker 1: an unforgivable and horrific sin against humanity. And it's just
Speaker 1: so intellectually dishonest. But again, I've given up on Network
Speaker 1: News and CBS. It's a joke.
Speaker 2: Like I always say, I almost never miss an episode
Speaker 2: of sixty Minutes. But I must have missed the one
Speaker 2: in which Scott Pelly said, no one's exactly sure how
Speaker 2: much Joe Biden's willing to challenge the Constitution, but the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruled he can't do away with student loans. However,
Speaker 2: he seems hell bent on doing it despite blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I must have missed that episode.
Speaker 1: In fact, he said the Supreme Court was illegitimate for
Speaker 1: enforcing the Constitution and vowed that he would do it anyway.
Speaker 1: No lesson an unprecedented reach for power, no lesson authority
Speaker 1: than Nancy Pelosi has said multiple times the President doesn't
Speaker 1: have the authority to cancel student loans, but he's doing
Speaker 1: it anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I must have missed that episode.
Speaker 1: Their partisan hacks anyway, I forget about their past as
Speaker 1: serious journalists.
Speaker 2: It's gone. I wanted to hear more from this poor
Speaker 2: Christina girl who got fired at her government job the.
Speaker 1: Other day and they had to leave the building.
Speaker 6: And these are folks who had decades and decades of
Speaker 6: public service, serving USAID across administrations from you know, George
Speaker 6: Bush to Obama to the first Trump administration, and they
Speaker 6: were never able to walk back in the building again.
Speaker 2: No way. You'd been there for decades doing a good job.
Speaker 2: You got fired and you weren't let back in the building.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of that happening before.
Speaker 1: Thank you for describing precisely how it's going to be
Speaker 1: as wasteful, out of control, ridiculous government programs get rained in.
Speaker 1: That is what it's going to look like. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate, but it must be done. Have you seen
Speaker 1: the deficit lately, sweetheart?
Speaker 2: Speaking of that alarming report shows us drowning in red ink.
Speaker 2: The New York Post threw in as Democrats block spending cuts,
Speaker 2: which is perfectly fine. So this is the first four
Speaker 2: months of the fiscal year. The federal government has a
Speaker 2: what they call mind numbing and it is eight hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty eight billion dollar shortfall four months into the
Speaker 2: fiscal year.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Per the non partisan Congressional Budget Office, that eight hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty eight billion dollar hole is fifteen percent higher
Speaker 2: than last year's first three month gap, which was horrifying
Speaker 2: and talked about then. But it's fifteen percent more now.
Speaker 2: Last month, the CBO projected at nearly two trillion dollars
Speaker 2: in overspending this year. I remember the first time we
Speaker 2: spent more than a trillion was that the beginning of
Speaker 2: COVID or was that eight when we had the big
Speaker 2: financial meltdown. But anyway, first time we spent we had
Speaker 2: a yearly budget deficit of a trillion, it was just,
Speaker 2: oh my god, we can't Bloh Now it's two trillion regularly.
Speaker 2: That's just what we do now, that's that's just where we.
Speaker 1: Have time with a strong economy, that's correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that would be about six point two percent
Speaker 2: of gross domestic product. It was three point eight percent
Speaker 2: on average over the last fifty years. Now it's six
Speaker 2: point two percent. That would be added, of course to
Speaker 2: our current thirty six trillion dollar debt, and in just
Speaker 2: a couple of years, the nation's debt. This has been
Speaker 2: threatened for a long time. The math is simple. It's
Speaker 2: out there on the horizon covered our direction. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's as inevitable as the sun rise, but we all
Speaker 2: pretend it's not or something. In just a few years,
Speaker 2: the nation's debt to GDP ratio will exceed it's World
Speaker 2: War two peak, which is amazing in peace time. What
Speaker 2: are we gonna do if there is a similar catastrophe
Speaker 2: like World War Two, which could easily happen with China
Speaker 2: could easily happen. Sure, combination of China and Russia and
Speaker 2: we in Europe are fighting them, absolutely could happen. But
Speaker 2: we're already spending like we did during World War Two.
Speaker 2: What happens in well, maybe you lose is what happens.
Speaker 1: I just like how any cut is identified as a horror,
Speaker 1: particularly by left these days in the media, because it
Speaker 1: will take away the the the excuse used for spending.
Speaker 1: It will be hurt. This is money budgeted for a
Speaker 1: starving pregnant women, So you're pregnant women starve. Here's the
Speaker 1: deal with government spending in casegnan a group of people
Speaker 1: that people could really have some compassion for. I think
Speaker 1: you chose all right exactly. So they spend zillions of
Speaker 1: dollars on god knows what, but they call it spending
Speaker 1: for starving pregnant women. Therefore, when you try to cut it,
Speaker 1: having identified it is wasteful and ridiculous, and one penny
Speaker 1: of every dollar goes to a hungry pregnant gal, they
Speaker 1: screech about it, that the scam being every dollar that's
Speaker 1: spent by government is given a noble sounding name. There's
Speaker 1: no there's no Department of flushing money down the toilet,
Speaker 1: even though you know it. Actually, more appropriately it would
Speaker 1: be the Department of handing out enormous gobs of cash
Speaker 1: to our cronies. Nobody actually calls itself that, but that's.
Speaker 2: What it is. Well, as I've heard a number of
Speaker 2: people point out there should be more. Asking Democrats, what
Speaker 2: would you cut? I assume you believe we've got to
Speaker 2: cut spending since we're thirty two trillion dollars in debt,
Speaker 2: would you cut? Of course, the answer is always going
Speaker 2: to be raised taxes. The billionaires aren't paying their fast share,
Speaker 2: and that's where you go with that.
Speaker 1: The rich, you need to pay their fresh share. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, I thought this was a great perspective written
Speaker 1: by a fellow by the name of Eugene Controvich. Controrovich.
Speaker 1: How many o's are enough? Eugene? Anyway, he's talking about
Speaker 1: the billions and billions of dollars that the US spends
Speaker 1: through the the UN for what he refers to as
Speaker 1: the global deep State in the Wall Street Journal. This
Speaker 1: is not some sort of fevered website or whatever. He mentions.
Speaker 1: In fiscal twenty two, the US government provided more than
Speaker 1: twenty one billion dollars to one hundred and seventy nine
Speaker 1: international organizations and multilateral entities. It's four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: pages of a State Department report just listing them. And
Speaker 1: that's on top of the direct foreign aid that went
Speaker 1: to radical progressive causes via the USAID that everybody's been
Speaker 1: talking about. So this is twenty one billion dollars on
Speaker 1: top of all that. Even the most and is headline
Speaker 1: for which is worth mentioning, is now, let's defund the UN.
Speaker 1: But he says even the most innocuous sounding international organizations
Speaker 1: have institutionalized woke ideology. Nearly every UN affiliated organization seeks
Speaker 1: to make climate change, of course, and or gender issues,
Speaker 1: including transgenderism, an integral part of their work. Not if
Speaker 1: they get around to it. It should be all about
Speaker 1: that DEI offices abound. The International Organization for Migration lists
Speaker 1: among its central activity areas of activity gender equality, environmental sustainability,
Speaker 1: and reducing global inequalities. The UN Commission on Human Rights
Speaker 1: promotes a variety of transgender propaganda programs, such as helping
Speaker 1: Nepalese LGBTQIP plus minus over the power three writers tell
Speaker 1: their own story. Then you know you can get into
Speaker 1: abortion and all sorts of stuff like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: virtually everything the UN does is as he said, sound
Speaker 1: like a taxpayer funded sixteen to nineteen project. Defund the UN.
Speaker 1: That's the next step. I wonder. I wonder because Trump
Speaker 1: and company have made threatening noises about that. I would
Speaker 1: love to see him send shockways like the ridiculous gazzil
Speaker 1: Argo plan Gazalalago. We'll take over Gaza and kick all
Speaker 1: the people out and turn it into a resort. His
Speaker 1: mobile eyes to the air world to say, eh, eh,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, maybe we can find a real solution
Speaker 1: to this. I would love to say, no, we're not
Speaker 1: going to fund the UN anymore at all, beginning next week,
Speaker 1: and see what reforms suddenly shakeout. Well.
Speaker 2: One of Elon's tweets over the weekend about things he's
Speaker 2: cutting this is one of the this is an interesting
Speaker 2: thing that has happened. Of course, one of the great
Speaker 2: things about Elon run on Twitter and being in charge
Speaker 2: of this is how he can get the news out
Speaker 2: in a way that some retired senator. You don't you've
Speaker 2: never heard of part of some blue ribbon commission. Nobody'd
Speaker 2: be paying any attention to him whatsoever. But Elon tweeted
Speaker 2: out funding for racist baby training has been canceled, and
Speaker 2: it's got the list of how they uh, how you
Speaker 2: can train your kid to not be racist starting at
Speaker 2: three months old. Babies are born racist and you have
Speaker 2: to train it out of them starting at three months.
Speaker 2: And it's actually has the information here what you do
Speaker 2: for your baby at three months, at nine months, at
Speaker 2: two years, at three years, and at five years to
Speaker 2: make sure your kid is not racist.
Speaker 1: So babies have a natural predilection to respond more favorably
Speaker 1: to faces that look like their own. Right, the way
Speaker 1: was made by God or nature, and you can't trend
Speaker 1: them out of it accord.
Speaker 2: Your way of presenting it. Or babies are born racist.
Speaker 2: You people are effing nuts, how but not a lot
Speaker 2: of you are spending your time trying to train your
Speaker 2: baby out of racism at three months. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of other things you should do for your baby.
Speaker 1: But all right, you know how every single couple in
Speaker 1: advertising is multi racial, sure, every single fan.
Speaker 2: Even though you know practically none in your real life, right, exactly.
Speaker 1: The actual statistics on that are really interested? Oh really,
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear that and highly politically incorrect. It'll
Speaker 1: probably end our career to even observe the truths. You
Speaker 1: can't observe the truth, like we were talking about in
Speaker 1: Germany before. If you insult anybody or hurt their feelings,
Speaker 1: you're a criminal. I am test drove the Tesla cyber
Speaker 1: truck the other day.
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about that because it's a controversial vehicle. Also,
Speaker 2: my kids say I have a new dent in my
Speaker 2: head that I should be aware of. I'm a shaven
Speaker 2: headed man. If you've never seen me before, and you
Speaker 2: can see my entire sphere spiracle head. My kids say
Speaker 2: I have a new dent. I should go to a phrenologist.
Speaker 2: I don't know who you see about.
Speaker 1: That, friend, because I don't think that's a thing. I thought, well, yes,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure it's the legitimate science.
Speaker 2: Will insurance cover it? Anyway? We got a lot more
Speaker 2: on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 1: Burger che burger tea barger tea.
Speaker 2: Burger right, yes, right from the seventies. No, I misplaced
Speaker 2: fourteen burger well drunk until I'm sorry, but I think
Speaker 2: he might be too drug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, try to tackle Paul Simon, but I missed. And
Speaker 1: now Sabrina Carpenter's dad drunk.
Speaker 2: I'm going girl at a party everyone, So I'm uh,
Speaker 2: we're big fans of drunkne call at my household. So
Speaker 2: I like to see him get a spot on the
Speaker 2: fifty years anniversary. There's so many drunk holds. My favorite part, though,
Speaker 2: is he looks down at his drink. He says, not
Speaker 2: my captain America.
Speaker 1: Wow, very funny. I'm not so obsessively political. I can't
Speaker 1: enjoy that. But how about let's do a little drunk
Speaker 1: kid go home from college suddenly knows everything character. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be charming?
Speaker 2: I think they've had that over the years a few times.
Speaker 1: Oh good good.
Speaker 2: One international update that's not exactly funny, so trouugh transition.
Speaker 2: Two quick things. So they got the big media in
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia right now. Marco Rubiar a Secretary of State
Speaker 2: meeting with Lavrov, basically the Secretary of State of Russia
Speaker 2: trying to work out a deal or start the talks
Speaker 2: or whatever. Zelensky isn't there anyway? This breaking news. All
Speaker 2: you need to know about this is the United States
Speaker 2: ask Russia for a moratorium on strikes against Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Speaker 2: Lavra rejected that. He said, be because Russia has never
Speaker 2: targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the first place.
Speaker 1: Must all that's a good one surgery.
Speaker 2: That's not a good start to the talks if you're
Speaker 2: just going to deny all reality. And then this horrific
Speaker 2: news that came out. Hamas says the youngest hostages ages
Speaker 2: two and five, and their mom are dead and their
Speaker 2: bodies will be sent back to Israel this week. So
Speaker 2: that one of the reasons Israel has been holding out
Speaker 2: this whole time and putting up with a lot of
Speaker 2: crap from Hamas is hoping to get back those two
Speaker 2: little kids and their mom. But they're all dead, probably
Speaker 2: have been for a while. How did those little kids die, Hamas?
Speaker 2: What happened there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding monsters. So a complete change topic here,
Speaker 1: I said we would do this, so let's squeeze it in.
Speaker 1: I found this very interesting. Its statistics on spouse's races
Speaker 1: for newlyweds, it goes through It's not up to date,
Speaker 1: so I suspect some of these numbers have changed a
Speaker 1: little bit because innerational marriage has become more common in
Speaker 1: the last four or five years, which you're not covered.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this just for the sake
Speaker 1: of the argument. I don't care who you marry. I
Speaker 1: hope you care for each other and are good for
Speaker 1: each other, and if you have kids, you raise them
Speaker 1: the best you can and you have a happy life together.
Speaker 2: I can't give a crap. I don't care either. I
Speaker 2: just think it's interesting human nature that it tends not
Speaker 2: to happen.
Speaker 1: Right indeed, and to deny that that's okay or natural
Speaker 1: or birds of a feather flock together is just it's
Speaker 1: it's a depth of how unrealistic the DEI crowd is.
Speaker 1: Of course they're they're Marxists. And also, and it's not
Speaker 1: just to us who are annoyed by or have noticed
Speaker 1: that every couple just portrayed on TV, especially in ads,
Speaker 1: has to be multiracial. Now. I get they think, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to show a black person, so a black
Speaker 1: person will want to buy this brand of wheelbarrow or
Speaker 1: a car or cereal too, which I think is probably
Speaker 1: not necessary. But anyway, I thought this is interesting. The
Speaker 1: most recent statistics they have white males merry white females,
Speaker 1: it's a zero point eight nine to eight percent of
Speaker 1: the time, so ninety percent of the time. It's slightly
Speaker 1: slightly more. It's ninety and a half percent that white
Speaker 1: females marry white males. Then there are a mix of
Speaker 1: other ethnicities they might marry, and it's this chart is
Speaker 1: quite interesting. It's a little challenging to read, but it
Speaker 1: has Black, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hispanic, Long Indian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, other, Pakistani, Vietnamese,
Speaker 1: all sorts of different things. Blah blah blah. One interesting
Speaker 1: departure from the tendency and this is, well, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to make of it is Japanese females marry
Speaker 1: white guys forty one percent of the time.
Speaker 2: But how often do black.
Speaker 1: Filipinos It's about forty four percent. Of course, you know
Speaker 1: the whole what's white, what's not?
Speaker 2: How often do you have a black white marriage, as
Speaker 2: is portrayed in ads like it's half the.
Speaker 1: Time among black female else it appears to be about
Speaker 1: six and a half percent. Black males merry white women
Speaker 1: about fourteen.
Speaker 2: Percent, But in the time in detergent commercials, it's more
Speaker 2: like ninety five percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's correct.
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