WEBVTT - Wrestling In Space! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.120 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:24.960 Armstrong and Jetty Armstrong and Getty. According to the. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.720 White House zappers, while visiting Donald Trump in the Oval Office, 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:33.040 Elon Musk's four year old needed a diaper change. Luckily 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.519 there was plenty left over from the previous tenant. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.360 Yeah, that was that ten? I asked for ten? Was 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:42.680 that joke? 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:42.879 Ten? 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.400 That was on joke? Ten? Huh? 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:48.240 Okay, my joke TenneT joke was a ten out of ten. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.800 My Joe Pye was in continent? Is the point? 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.080 My joke? Ten? Is Bill Maher Kanye West is getting 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.840 a divorce? Is that joke? Ten? 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:56.440 Okay? 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.520 Well, here I have that joke. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:00:59.840 That's it. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.080 Marriage is over, Biancusen sorry, and Kanye West of cold 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:10.559 it quits. I I just hope this doesn't make Kanye 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:20.640 do something stupid. Yeah, apparently it was. It was a 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.320 while in coming. Try can I try to be sensitive? 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.440 You said to her, it's not you, it's not me, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:26.480 it's the Jews. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:34.120 Wow, that's pretty funny. It's not you, it's not me, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:35.280 it's the Jews. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.080 Kanye, It's so crazy. I hadn't heard that they're getting 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:40.640 a divorce. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:45.760 So a week after she's naked looking like a hostage 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.200 at the Grammys, they're getting a divorce. Her played a 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:49.960 role in any way. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.280 Yeah. Plus I heard something she's not down with the 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.680 anti Semitism at all. And I hadn't understood exactly how 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.600 that quote unquote super Bowl out of his got on 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.080 where he rambles and says, go to my website. Then 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.280 the only product that his website is a swastika T shirt. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.680 He had an ad agency by a local Super Bowl 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.480 spot in every market he could around America, so Big 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.280 Fox didn't air it. It was just on. I can't 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.359 remember many dozens of local markets around America, that crazy 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.040 ass commercial of his. And he's, man, is he headed 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:27.840 for a big crack up? 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.280 Well with what goal? Or do you just think he's 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.280 actually nuts? 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.000 Oh, he's got to just be nuts. I mean it 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.680 could be he's an obsessive anti Semite in the vein 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.240 of a certain Chancellor of Germany. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.640 But well, I don't think that's clearly nuts. I mean 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.280 I could be wrong, but I don't think that's it. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.440 I don't he wants he wants people to be mad 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:55.080 at him. He's got some sort of childish upset doing 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.560 things to make people not like him so he can 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.560 say people don't like him thing going. I mean, like 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.519 his tweet about his tweet about I turned down three 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.799 make a Wish kids and wheelchairs this week. I mean, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.400 he just he just wants people to be upset with 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:15.239 him for some sad reason, and that he hasn't killed 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.120 himself already is shocking to me. I think that's going 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.600 to be a headline in my lifetime. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.520 But as usual, when you're talking about something like this, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.680 trying to come up with a rational explanation for crazy, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:26.760 you just you can't. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.760 He might be the richest mentally ill person in the world, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.920 and then can you know, kind of get away with it. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.280 Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. I mean, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.680 if he were not independently wealthy, he would be living 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:42.200 in a box somewhre absolutely just yeah, yeah, too bad, folks. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.120 Be grateful for your mental health to the extent that 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.640 you have. Any Ah, So a headful of AI related 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.280 stories that I found very interesting as we move further 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.880 and further into this world. I've actually been using it 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.560 a bit more in last week, partly because Apple updated 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.640 their software, and I've had a couple of searches that 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.560 they needed to use chat GPT to help with and 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.800 it's been quite impressive, really, so I'm feeling more and 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.840 more like at least I understand how some of it works. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:19.040 But anyway, a story number one is they did a 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.919 couple of universities got together did a series of experiments 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:27.320 where they were they had to volunteers pose as drone 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.839 pilots making kill or no kill, shoot or no shoot decisions. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.640 And they would, you know, up the ante by showing 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:41.240 them pictures of civilians hurt and killed by drone strikes 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.520 and buildings damage and stuff like that. They made it 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.320 as impactful as they could in a research setting. And 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.039 you know, it's too bad this this article is written 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.680 with way too much editorial, so I'll just summarize it 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:59.200 for you. People seemed very willing to overcome their own thinking, 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.920 or over turn their own thinking if the AI system 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:08.160 said I disagree, even if it had been made infinitely 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.880 clear to them that the AI system is unsophisticated and 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.720 it makes mistakes. But they seemed in large numbers to 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.359 defer to the computer, and amusingly, they tried it with 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.680 like a primitive robot saying I would go ahead and 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.960 shoot at them, and then turning very robotically. Then they 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.280 used did a more sophisticated humanoid like robot, and then 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.919 they just did a simple computer interface to suit that 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.400 changed it, and it did a little bit. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.080 So the human psychology of this AI side is interesting. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.640 So that's it's like the famous trolley car problem. You 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.080 will say, go ahead and run over the person if 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.240 if something tells you to, if a supposed expert tells you. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.760 To, yeah, even if somebody makes clear to you, hey, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.720 this expert is wrong a fair amount. And the way 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.320 they this experiment was they would show them pictures very 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:07.359 quickly of their target, and that often included the symbol 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.279 of either your side or the other side, either the 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.200 Ukrainian flag or the Russian Z for instance, and and 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.440 say shoot or don't shoot. And even though they'd programmed 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.520 the AI to be random in its decisions so it 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.040 was wrong as much as it was right, the people 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.240 would refer to it in large numbers. So anyway, I 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.000 just thought that was kind of interesting. We tend well, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.840 certain people tend to be very easily led, whether it's 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.040 a human being or a technical beast like AI. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.920 Well, I guess that that explains the whole, not on 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.280 purpose to get back to Germans and Nazi things, but 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.440 the whole, the whole. I was just following orders thing. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.680 I guess that fits in with that. You're you're willing 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:53.600 to do lots of things if somebody tells you to yeah, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.000 an expert tells you to yeah. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.279 To refer to a very famous parable, I guess it 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.640 is about how among human beings there are sheep, there 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.560 are wolves, there are sheep dogs, and the masses of 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.880 folks are a little sheepy. And you know, you could 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.280 be insulting about that and call them sheeple and stuff 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.600 like that, and I have in the past. But if 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.240 that is the way most people are at some point, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.960 you have to realize that and be a realist about it. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.160 Founding Fathers work. That's why the designed so many checks 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.760 and balances against somebody seizing dictatorial powers, because a lot 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.720 of sheeple want a dictator because it's simple and they 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.840 know what they're supposed to do in a dictatorship. Anyway, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:40.600 Another quick artificial intelligence story. New study shows that over 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.000 aliance on artificial intelligence to perform certain tasks reduces critical thinking. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.320 Study conducted by Carnegie, Mellen and Microsoft who is working 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.640 as hard as they can to get AI going, found 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.640 that people who use AI regularly for basic routine tasks 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.440 will lose their ability for complex critical thinking. From social 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.720 workers to people who write code for a living, the 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.160 professional surveyed, We're all asked to share real life examples, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.440 and the blah blah blah. The methodology is not that 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.120 interesting and it's long. But of course, if you know, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.880 if I have a machine to shovel snow for me, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.600 my snow shoveling muscles are going to get less strong. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.160 And it's true intellectually too. Well. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.120 I don't know if this fits in with my example 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.240 of it. I'm still the only person I've heard say this. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.040 I want to get it. I want to say it 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.920 again because I want credit for it when it becomes 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.880 a big thing, because I do think it's going to 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.080 be a big thing. I'm a worst driver now because 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.240 of the automatic driving in my Tesla. When I'm in 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.160 my car without it, I'm not as I just don't 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.480 pay as good attention because I got in the habit 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.600 of something paying attention for me. Yeah, And I think 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.120 that's why I had my motorcycle wreck because I'm just 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.040 I'm it happens so quickly that my brain got retrained 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.760 when I'm driving that I don't need to pay attention. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.320 There's a computer paying attention for me. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.840 Yeah. I think that's undeniable, and that's going to become 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.880 a real problem nationwide. There aren't enough people driving cars 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.319 that have that technology yet, I guess. But similar sort 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:10.560 of thing. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.880 When something else can do it for you, you atrophy amazingly quickly. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.120 Apparently all of us. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.720 Have had the experience of like spacing off behind the wheel, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.920 and you'd like startle and you think, oh god, no, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.880 I got to pay attention. I gotta pay attention. If 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.160 you systematically get trained, no, it's okay to space Offah. Yeah, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.400 that's going to change your metal approach of course. Yeah. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.560 So a couple of quick words from the summary of 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.880 this article, and then we will get to the funny 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.600 AI story, or at least ironic. Researchers wrote in the 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.560 paper that AI can result in the deterioration of cognitive 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.040 faculties that ought to be preserved. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:46.440 Quote. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.400 A key irony of automation is that by mechanizing routine 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.880 tasks and leaving exception handling to the human user. You 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.680 deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.480 judgment and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving the matrophied and 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.960 unprepared when the exceptions do arid. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.600 I think that's exactly what happened with the driving. It's 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.080 just it happens with everything apparently that we use AI for. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.960 Wow, this reminds me of that internal study that Facebook 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.840 did that said, Hey, this stuff's addictive and it'll wreck 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.760 your minds. Don't let your kids do this anyway. Let's 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.640 keep marketing to the suckers anyway. That's striking, especially because 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.560 Microsoft is involved. So a quick word again from our 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.560 friends at prize Picks, right, Michael, isn't that right? Yeah, 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.840 And then we'll get back to a rather funny, ironic, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.679 bitterly amusing story about AI prize Picks. 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All State Insurance 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:07.480 was using AI models to write responses to letters speak 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.200 in emails because they get zillions of them from customers, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.120 and All State is discovering these soulless, generative AI models 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.359 made up entirely of data and code, are more empathetic 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.840 than many of its human representatives. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:23.520 Wow. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.880 The insurer said that during the often frustrating back and 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.880 forth between customers and claim reps after a claim is filed, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.600 nearly all of the All State emails are now generated 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.320 by AI, and that as a result, they are less 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:40.880 accusatory and jargony and more empathetic than the humans. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:42.800 That's interesting. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:48.280 All States using open eyes GPT model for what it's worth. Quote, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.160 when these emails used to go out, even though we 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.520 had standards and so on, they would include a lot 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.280 of insurance jargon. They weren't very empathetic, claims would claims 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.160 agents would get frustrated, and so it wasn't necessarily great 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.960 communications said their chief information officer. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.960 That's interesting. So have you found yourself doing this now 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.160 that Google has the little AI summary at the top 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.199 whenever you search anything. I've been using that a lot, 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.120 and I don't almost exclusively, and I don't scroll down 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.679 to check other things. I go with the little AI 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.199 summary and assume it's right. I guess far superior. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.640 Yeah, but you know, I'm not sure I'd say I 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.160 assume it's right, but it's it's helpful. It's what I 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.680 was looking for way, way, way more often than the 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.080 useless just Google. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.160 So yeah, it's succinct and it Yeah, that's something, and 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.560 it'll get a lot better, I assume. With allso, with 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.280 all the dangers of it choosing what it wants you 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.600 to see inherent to the problem. We got a lot 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.880 more on the waist here. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.440 And when you're trying to make that decision, do I 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.920 feel safe flying? And I do very much. So there's 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.160 no trend. There's nothing that ties these accidents together. So 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.640 using critical thinking, you can say for yourself, do all 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.760 of these things indicate some kind of trend in aircraft accidents? 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.720 And to me, as an experienced investigator and being involved 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.520 in aviation as a mechanic and as a safety inspector 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.520 for the FAA. I'm perfectly I feel perfectly safe doing this. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.559 I don't see anything tying these together that says, oh, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.160 the FAA's bad or the system is a problem. So 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.880 you got that plane landed in Canada on its upside down, 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:22.800 which she's not supposed to do. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.480 Somebody should have told the pilot. And I had a 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.520 number of people in my real life, because this is 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.480 three and a couple of weeks, say what's going on 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.280 with flying? And that guy's saying, nothing's going on with flying. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:35.520 So there you go. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.000 Yeah, yeah, that's a real test of our ability to 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.440 be rational as human beings. Since it just keeps popping up, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.960 you start to think maybe something's going on. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.880 Right. We mentioned this last week a little follow up 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.000 on the asteroid that might hit the Earth in twenty 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.920 thirty two. So they have spotted an asteroid way out 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.880 there in outer space that is headed to Horde Earth, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:06.160 but it's so far away that it's difficult to nail 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.640 down exactly where it's going to pass by. I mean, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:13.680 just imagine the tiniest bit of being off and measuring 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.720 it from that far away would over that many gazillion 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.280 miles turn into a pretty wide space. But it has 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:20.680 a watch. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.680 Don't look up. I know how the process works. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.640 It has a two percent chance of hitting Earth in 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.760 twenty thirty two, and as you said the other day, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.720 a one in fifty chance, ain't nothing. One in fifty 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.680 of it hit and Earth. So this particular asteroid is 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.920 forty to ninety meters wide, they do know that, which 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.960 is what the length of a football field. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:43.680 Yeah, roughly. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:51.200 The thing that hit in the Yukton Peninsula that wiped 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.520 out the dinosaurs was several kilometers, so is much bigger 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.360 than that. So this isn't a wipes out Earth, wipes 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.320 out human beings sort of asteroid. But it would would 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:01.960 be a heck of a big deal wherever it hit, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:07.280 really big deal. And I don't know do we currently 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.200 have the technology to intercept that. If fat is it 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.800 gets closer, because that's seven years from now. As it 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.520 gets closers, we I'm sure the one in fifty will 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.680 get narrowed down as it gets closer. Just the math 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.280 will get easier and if they can determine. Look, we 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.400 got like an eighty percent chances is going to hit Earth. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.280 We got to intercept it right. With our modern technology. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.440 I would think we'd be able to nudge it successfully 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.520 enough that it would move the Earth. But I've read 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.480 scientists talking about this. How if it was say, aimed 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.160 right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and and 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.160 you came along as Nassa and said, now we think 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:43.840 we can nudge it so it doesn't hurt it hit 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.400 the earth completely. We'll be nudging it eastward a long way, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.840 and all the countries eastward not a long way like 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.160 you know whatever. Actually that would be the United States udge. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.720 We'll say, nudge it into China. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.960 Let's go with westward for the sake of the argument. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:00.880 So we say, no, we're going to nudget so far 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:02.880 west it doesn't even hit the earth. And all the 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.879 countries of the west, China, India, you know, Russia, Europe 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.120 are like, no, you're not nudging it west. How about 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:08.760 you nudge Niche. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.920 So China sends up their spaceship, we send up our spaceship, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.760 and we're on both sides of the asteroid trying to 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.800 push a different directions. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:21.800 Oh no, wrestling in space. It's gonna be an interesting 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.200 media a death Come do your work. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.639 And what what how much time I got, Michael, I've 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.399 got my biggest complaint of the weekend. Starbucks has changed 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.280 their lids, and I'm outraged. They got rid of their 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.760 plastic lids to be good for the earth, and they've 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.760 got these paper lids now that you can't put a 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.359 stopper in. He used to be able to put a 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.159 little plastic stopper and so he could ride in your 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.440 car and it doesn't spill. You can't do that anymore 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:49.200 with their dumb paper lids. So that's the I emailed 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.359 several people in Ukraine and told them how upset I was. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.199 Have Trump step in. He got rid of the paper straws. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.160 Maybe you can get rid of this garbage Starbucks. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.760 I hate your paper lids. You suck. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.800 Make coffee great again, exactly. 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.719 Some really disturbing news about the budget so far this 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.439 fiscal year that everybody should be paying attention to, but 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.760 nobody is. Among other things we can talk about. I 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:11.640 hope you can stay. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:18.680 Here, Armstrong and Getty. People are really scared. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.200 I think that you know, twelve days ago, people knew 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.680 where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.400 they were going to pay for their kids' take care, 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.280 their medical bills, and then all gone overnight. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.000 I'm trying to make it clear that I'm not happy 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.399 that this person is wondering where they're going to get 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.760 their next paycheck or how they're going to survive, because 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.840 you know, we most of us have been there at 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.200 some point in our lives. But the fact that these 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.480 government workers are unaware that the private sector lives this 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.119 way all the time is amazing to me. 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.720 Yeah, they're in a different kind of bubble than the 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.560 one we usually talk about. I would call it an 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.960 employment reality bubble. They don't understand that the vast majority 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.359 the world strikes that bargain. Yeah, our production, our skill, 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.119 our value to the company will be high enough that 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.680 they keep us until it's not. Then we got to 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:10.440 find another gig. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:16.320 So let's play the intro from sixty minutes on this 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.760 story last night. This was their first story about DOGE 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.360 cutting USAID and all that sort of stuff yesterday. 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:27.400 And enjoy the foreboding language used by Scott Pelly. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.720 It's too soon to tell how serious President Trump is 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:35.200 in defiance of the Constitution. In his first twenty eight days, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.080 he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.720 a right guaranteed by the fourteenth Amendment, and he has 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:49.080 closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.960 Lower courts are holding up many of the president's priorities, 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.240 but nothing has risen to the Supreme Court, where these 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:01.600 battles over presidential power could rewrite history. Presidents often push 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:06.680 limits FDR's New Deal, for example, and voters in this 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:11.159 last election wanted change, but the scope and speed of 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:16.359 Trump's reach for power may be unprecedented. One example is 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.560 a sixty three year old agency created by Congress, codified 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:25.439 in law, and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:31.040 Oh, it's an interesting reach for power that you're trying 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.200 to shrink the government. 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.280 Oh yeah, yeah. And the idea that the fourteenth Amendment 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.240 thing is clearly unconstitutional and he knows it and everybody 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.159 knows it. And how shutting down USA temporarily when you 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.840 reassess how it projects American power broad is somehow just 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.639 an unforgivable and horrific sin against humanity. And it's just 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.959 so intellectually dishonest. But again, I've given up on Network 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:55.520 News and CBS. It's a joke. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.360 Like I always say, I almost never miss an episode 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.480 of sixty Minutes. But I must have missed the one 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:04.639 in which Scott Pelly said, no one's exactly sure how 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.879 much Joe Biden's willing to challenge the Constitution, but the 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:12.560 Supreme Court ruled he can't do away with student loans. However, 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.760 he seems hell bent on doing it despite blah blah blah. 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:17.360 I must have missed that episode. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.840 In fact, he said the Supreme Court was illegitimate for 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.840 enforcing the Constitution and vowed that he would do it anyway. 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:29.240 No lesson an unprecedented reach for power, no lesson authority 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.560 than Nancy Pelosi has said multiple times the President doesn't 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.080 have the authority to cancel student loans, but he's doing 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:36.720 it anyway. 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:38.439