Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong's Joe, Katty arm Strong.
Speaker 2: And Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. I've gotten a
Speaker 2: lot of texts similar to this one.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 3: I'm so sick of men talking to me at the gym.
Speaker 3: I just want to work out. I used to wear
Speaker 3: a leave me alone T shirt. If you have a
Speaker 3: question about glutes, google it. Don't talk to me. But
Speaker 3: uh that it would suck if that happens to you
Speaker 3: all the time. I have a friend she wanted to
Speaker 3: get into golfing, and she had her afternoons free, so
Speaker 3: she'd go golfing by herself. She said she couldn't ever go.
Speaker 3: She'd be out there golfing by herself. Every five minutes
Speaker 3: some guy rides, hey, you want to golf with us?
Speaker 3: Or you need somebody to golf with or blah blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. Constantly She's just no, I'm okay.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Oh that would wear you out, that would get annoying,
Speaker 3: that would get knowing that people are looking at you.
Speaker 3: Try Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'd attempted to go off on a tangent and what
Speaker 3: I don't get from you dudes who do that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. Do you really think an attractive woman golfing
Speaker 3: alone just doesn't have any way to meet men, and
Speaker 3: she just doesn't. It's that's why she's out there by herself.
Speaker 3: She just has no way to meet a dude. So
Speaker 3: you coming by talking to her? No, no, no, I
Speaker 3: don't think guys think that they see a fish within
Speaker 3: the reach of their line, so they throw their line
Speaker 3: in simple as that. I can see how it would
Speaker 3: be very annoying tho as a woman that you'd think,
Speaker 3: I can't go golf by myself, or I can't go
Speaker 3: to the gym by myself because somebody talks to me
Speaker 3: every five minutes.
Speaker 1: It's too tiresome. Yeah, yeah, totally Yeah, unfortunate. Ah So
Speaker 1: we've got a lot to squeeze into the final hour
Speaker 1: of the week, But first let's take a fond look
Speaker 1: back at the week that was. It's cow clips, the.
Speaker 4: Week the bombshow release of what House Democrats say are
Speaker 4: emails to and from deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3: This vote is going to be on your record for
Speaker 3: longer than Trump is going to be president, and.
Speaker 1: Lauren Bowert herself was called here to the White House
Speaker 1: had a meeting inside the Situation Room. These emails proved
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did
Speaker 1: nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: Do you think President Trump has something to hide here?
Speaker 5: I don't because I believe the women, and the women
Speaker 5: have said over and over again that Donald Trump did
Speaker 5: nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: Well, hundred flights have been canceled all across the US today.
Speaker 3: My little one learned the word ice cream and she
Speaker 3: maybe make sure I promised her to get her ice stream.
Speaker 2: When I get back home from the drip.
Speaker 3: That being said nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: I'd say it comes to fake me that little girl
Speaker 2: in her ice scream.
Speaker 3: Longest government shut down in American history could be coming
Speaker 3: to an end.
Speaker 1: Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 2: I think the word of the day is terrible. No
Speaker 2: way to defend this. You are right to be angry.
Speaker 2: I hell not.
Speaker 3: Turmoil at Britain's premiere broadcaster with President Trump right in
Speaker 3: the middle.
Speaker 2: We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll.
Speaker 4: Be there with you and we fight.
Speaker 2: We fight like hell ready t ready play a bunch
Speaker 2: of fashion in the fir he says, excuse me, sir,
Speaker 2: so misgendering me right away. If you're not a woman,
Speaker 2: that's obvious. This is a police matter.
Speaker 4: We need.
Speaker 2: I was assault No, they are not. They are men.
Speaker 4: I was assaulted.
Speaker 2: Hey, optimist, you know where I can get a co
Speaker 2: I can take you to the kitchen if you want
Speaker 2: to check for a coke there. Oh yeah, that'd be great. Go, yes,
Speaker 2: let's do that. This is a very big play. Don't
Speaker 2: you think they have to get a touchdown. Let's put
Speaker 2: it differently. They just got a touch out.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be a great grandmother. Oh, Charley, congratulations.
Speaker 2: We don't want to talk about it, we say.
Speaker 6: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, it's clips of the week.
Speaker 3: We really ought to do the story about having your
Speaker 3: dead relative talk to you again.
Speaker 1: An AI chat bot halogram app of your dead granny.
Speaker 3: So we'll do that coming up. I won't read all
Speaker 3: the texts, getting lots of text about this whole gym interaction.
Speaker 3: It's kind of an interesting thing. We got a number
Speaker 3: of texts from I'm a woman and I wish guys
Speaker 3: would hit on me and they don't, and it's hurtful.
Speaker 3: Got that got this sort of thing. Don't dress like
Speaker 3: a whore, and we'll leave you alone.
Speaker 1: So that's uh, well, that's a kind of a different.
Speaker 2: Nick fuintes in cell view of the whole.
Speaker 3: Thing, I think, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm going to do
Speaker 3: one Epstein email and I'll shut up about it. Newly
Speaker 3: released emails shows that Epstein thought Trump was one of
Speaker 3: the worst people he knew and doesn't have didn't have
Speaker 3: one decent cell in his body. Well, he kicked you
Speaker 3: out of the club, he clicked he kicked you out
Speaker 3: of mar A Lago, so you're really really pissed off.
Speaker 2: I understand that dynamic. Yeah I don't.
Speaker 1: I would certainly prefer that my politicians be really good
Speaker 1: moral people. I have never thought that about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: He's effective, He's had some great policies. But yeah, if
Speaker 1: somebody says, yeah, he's really not that moral a guy,
Speaker 1: he's not really a good guy. Ring's fairly true to me.
Speaker 1: Just have bigger problems than that.
Speaker 3: We will get to the AI loved one passing thing
Speaker 3: for you coming up soon. There are a number of
Speaker 3: clips in the clips of the week that I would
Speaker 3: comment on. A I don't know what to do about.
Speaker 2: Clips of the Week.
Speaker 3: We do this every week and I don't know any
Speaker 3: way around it, but sometimes there's stuff in there that
Speaker 3: I'm afraid you didn't hear, Like it's you know, it's
Speaker 3: an ai voice and you think it's a real voice.
Speaker 3: In this case, it was Donald Trump. It was actually
Speaker 3: Donald Trump's voice, but he never said that clip that
Speaker 3: we had in there. That was the falsely edited version
Speaker 3: from BBC that they are now being about, and we
Speaker 3: put it in Clips of the Week. BBC edited that together.
Speaker 3: They were like two things Trump said and almost an
Speaker 3: hour apart. They put it together to make it seem
Speaker 3: like it was one thought. And now the head of
Speaker 3: BBC and the number two at BBC, probably the most
Speaker 3: important news organization on planet Earth, the head of that
Speaker 3: news organization stepped down over that lying documentary that they.
Speaker 2: Put out a little over a year ago, and they
Speaker 2: should have.
Speaker 1: I came across a great perspective on that from a
Speaker 1: guy named Joseph Sternberg, who anyway, he's writing about that
Speaker 1: that scandal, and he says from afar, it might look
Speaker 1: as though the crisis englfing the British Broadcasting Corporation is
Speaker 1: only about the dishonest editing of trump et cetera. Oh no, friends,
Speaker 1: you're witnessing the meltdown of a core institution of British society.
Speaker 1: And then he describes the editing scandal that you just described,
Speaker 1: and so they did, they did all that, and he says,
Speaker 1: for what, I defy any reader to furnish evidence that
Speaker 1: a single American voter in twenty twenty four was swayed
Speaker 1: by the BBC report about anything. No sensible BBC staffer
Speaker 1: could have thought that airing this clip in this form
Speaker 1: on the show would convey useful information about what a
Speaker 1: Trump wind might mean for the domestic British audience that
Speaker 1: watched it. And then he says, one suspects that the
Speaker 1: panorama that was the show report was created solely to
Speaker 1: tackle the emotional pleasure centers of the journalists involved in
Speaker 1: the liberals among their audience. And then he points out, oh,
Speaker 1: and then he goes into BBC's Arabic service which is
Speaker 1: flamingly anti Israel, and the LGBTQ desk that suppresses anything
Speaker 1: contrary to far left beliefs at the BBC. And then
Speaker 1: the most interesting part to me was he says, this
Speaker 1: is rocking Britain in a way that America. They struggle
Speaker 1: to fathom if their frame of reference is US public broadcasting.
Speaker 1: The BBC is much bigger and it's funding model much
Speaker 1: more intrusive. You pay an annual tax of two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty bucks a year every British household watching any
Speaker 1: live programming BBC or otherwise. It's a compulsory tax to
Speaker 1: support the BBC with their payers.
Speaker 2: With their incredibly slanted news coverage. That's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know taxpayers. US taxpayers granted five hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars to public broadcasting. Well, therefore fires
Speaker 1: cut off the bigot I was calling them with the
Speaker 1: World's NPR or Britain's NPR, they're way more what we
Speaker 1: always complain about NPR. NPR was getting taxpayer money, but
Speaker 1: not near to that level. And to finish the comparison,
Speaker 1: Corporation for Public Public Broadcasting got about half a billion
Speaker 1: dollars from the government, okay, from taxpayers half a billion.
Speaker 1: The BBC got five billion dollars wow, in tax money.
Speaker 1: It is omnipresent, four entertainment oriented television channels, two children's channels,
Speaker 1: feeds from Parliament local language channel channels in Scotland and Wales,
Speaker 1: a domestic twenty four hour news channel, dozens of radio stations,
Speaker 1: operates its own video and audio streaming services and several
Speaker 1: smartphone apps. Yeah, Internationally, it combines news as public diplomacy
Speaker 1: via the World Service, et cetera, et cetera. It is enormous.
Speaker 3: So the head of the BBC resigned and the number
Speaker 3: two resigned Sunday night, and we did this story Monday morning.
Speaker 3: And until then I was unaware the BBC was really
Speaker 3: the biggest news organization on planet Earth.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. So it's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: The fact that Brits put up with I assume about
Speaker 3: half Brits don't agree with the politics of the BBC.
Speaker 3: So y'all are paying that much money for something that
Speaker 3: is propaganda that you don't believe in. That it's amazing.
Speaker 3: Did it used to be more fair and that's how
Speaker 3: it got going?
Speaker 2: I think so?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love the left has moved so far left
Speaker 1: in recent years, just like in the US. But he
Speaker 1: makes one more really interesting observation. The fact that the
Speaker 1: BBC is omnipresent in British society means that for decades
Speaker 1: the BBC has served as the interior decorator, arranging Britain's
Speaker 1: mental furniture, which is a nice metaphor, but the effect
Speaker 1: is amplified because working at the BBC is a dream
Speaker 1: job for many journalists and creatives, and that kills any
Speaker 1: incentive to sattle your resume with any output that could
Speaker 1: one day turn off a BBC hiring manager.
Speaker 2: Wow. So it is the super super.
Speaker 1: Giant of journalism and you wouldn't dare put out anything
Speaker 1: early in your career that would challenge the BBC's leftist
Speaker 1: point of view.
Speaker 2: Wow. So it's like, if you want to be a journalist,
Speaker 2: the whole.
Speaker 3: World of media was the New York Times or the
Speaker 3: old New York Times pre verry wise leaving New York Times.
Speaker 2: Wow that's something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so good news.
Speaker 3: Your relative died, but they can still talk to you
Speaker 3: through AI, give you parenting advice. Grandma can talk to
Speaker 3: your son. It's fantastic, isn't it? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 2: What come? We'll get into that. You're gonna find this troubling.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned. Can you tell that story or not tell
Speaker 2: that story?
Speaker 1: Not today?
Speaker 3: So someday in the future, maybe that'd be a good one.
Speaker 3: That'd be a good one because everybody's run into that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, never in doubt often wrong.
Speaker 5: Would the.
Speaker 2: Uh we have a tiny bit of breaking news.
Speaker 3: President Trump says he's directing Attorney General Bondi to investigate
Speaker 3: Bill Clinton's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: So he's trying to turn the.
Speaker 3: Table here at the end of the week, after a
Speaker 3: full week of lefty in mainstream media going hard on Epstein,
Speaker 3: he thinks, Okay, I got to get out in front
Speaker 3: of this. Now he's going to have Bondy going after
Speaker 3: the Clinton connection. So it's not just him.
Speaker 1: Is Epstein the shark attacks of twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: I hope not, because that would mean something bad is
Speaker 2: going to happen.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah. If you don't recall, just before nine
Speaker 1: to eleven, there are all sorts of stupid news stories
Speaker 1: about shark attacks. It became a craze in the media.
Speaker 2: Is this going to become a craze? I do not know.
Speaker 3: Like if I had video, I don't have any video
Speaker 3: audio of my dad at all.
Speaker 2: I should get some.
Speaker 3: He's still with me perfectly fine, But if he passed away,
Speaker 3: I don't have any audio and video of my dad.
Speaker 2: I don't think, but if I did, I.
Speaker 3: Could have him recreated by AI and you can have
Speaker 3: you know, grandma talk to your kid, or maybe you're
Speaker 3: passed away, mom, give you some advice on having a baby.
Speaker 2: Here, here's a clip of that.
Speaker 3: He's getting bigger.
Speaker 2: See, oh my, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3: Kicking like crazy.
Speaker 4: He's listening.
Speaker 3: Put your hand on your tummy and hum to him.
Speaker 2: You still love to say, Hi, Grandma, Hey, Charlie, I
Speaker 2: was school today.
Speaker 3: It was really fun.
Speaker 1: Look it's going to be a great grandmother. Oh Charlie, congratulations.
Speaker 1: She says that he's been kicking a lot though.
Speaker 5: Tell her to put her hand on her tommy and
Speaker 5: hum to him.
Speaker 1: You loved that. You would have loved this moment.
Speaker 4: You can call anytime.
Speaker 2: I just so turned off by this.
Speaker 1: So the creepy, creepy, creepy both examples.
Speaker 3: So if I wanted my grandma to be involved in
Speaker 3: my kid's childhood, I'm gonna lead my little kids when
Speaker 3: they're too young to understand what's going on that they're
Speaker 3: talking to Grandma.
Speaker 2: That's weird.
Speaker 1: Can Grandma come visit and not real.
Speaker 3: She's a busy that on the weekend of your birthday.
Speaker 3: We'll have her on the computer.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: And then and then do you get any actual comfort
Speaker 3: or like warm feelings about having an AI version of
Speaker 3: your grandma talk to you about your pregnancy in feigne
Speaker 3: emotion and pretend it's like delight that little Charlie.
Speaker 1: Whatever the hell little Charlie did he got an a
Speaker 1: in his math class, or throw a ball or I
Speaker 1: got lost there, but well the ball.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful, Charlie.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, hey, zombie granny, you don't have any emotions.
Speaker 1: You're a bunch of circuits.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm missing something here. I would not feel actual comfort.
Speaker 3: I think I would only get sadness out of this,
Speaker 3: But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I tell you what. I figured it out listening to that,
Speaker 1: because you asked earlier. Who would want that? The sort
Speaker 1: of people who heard the music in that ad and
Speaker 1: weren't immediately aware, Oh, they're trying to manipulate me emotionally
Speaker 1: with his happy piano music. People who would miss that
Speaker 1: would would sign up for this stupid app. We got
Speaker 1: this email from John. I remember when my kids were
Speaker 1: watching the Harry Potter movies, there was a mirror that
Speaker 1: Harry could use to see his ns one of the
Speaker 1: head wizards. One of the head wizards, it was Dumbledore.
Speaker 1: You illiterate anyway, I kid, Dumbledore talk to him about
Speaker 1: how dangerous that was.
Speaker 2: You can get lost in that, you will literate.
Speaker 1: I was kidding. John's got a good sense of here already.
Speaker 3: Knows that's right. Harry talked to his dead parents, of course.
Speaker 3: That the idea was that they're like, it can actually,
Speaker 3: you know, think and converse and it's not just a
Speaker 3: made up computer voice and it's not completely phony.
Speaker 1: It was like, all right, magic, it was his magic.
Speaker 1: This is the magic of Ai God.
Speaker 3: Damn, I hope this is not the where we're headed.
Speaker 3: The people are going to do this. You know, when
Speaker 3: you're a little kid and you talk to grandma, and
Speaker 3: grandma's been dead for forty years, you weren't actually talking
Speaker 3: to Grandma.
Speaker 2: Sorry, ill idea Armstrong and Geddy In.
Speaker 3: An age of strange political stories, the John Fetterman's story
Speaker 3: is a damned interesting one, beginning to end. We mocked
Speaker 3: him when he was running for Senate in Pennsylvania endlessly
Speaker 3: as a guy who'd never accomplished anything in his life
Speaker 3: and seemed to be a socialist and had never had
Speaker 3: a real job and lived in his mom's basement and
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, blah blah, and the whole wearing shorts
Speaker 3: and a hoodie all the time and pretending to be
Speaker 3: working class when you've never had a job and.
Speaker 1: Went to Harvard, didn't he Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2: You did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you wrote this story, nobody'd buy it. They'd
Speaker 1: think this'n it's too crazy.
Speaker 3: Then, doney, he has a stroke what while he's running
Speaker 3: for Senate kind of disappears for all, comes back. Remember,
Speaker 3: has that weird debate with doctor Oz where he locks
Speaker 3: up and makes no sense and everything like that, hands
Speaker 3: up winning, partially because he's running against doctor Oz. Then
Speaker 3: then he gets into the Senate, and particularly after October seventh,
Speaker 3: really showed himself to be an independent thinker, as being
Speaker 3: a solid supporter of Israel and anti Hamast despite where
Speaker 3: the direction his party was going, and lots of different things.
Speaker 3: He's a very independent thinking guy, and I regularly agree
Speaker 3: with him. He's got a memoir out New York Times,
Speaker 3: says John Fetterman's memoir is unlike any politicians book you've read.
Speaker 3: On a crowded shelf of memoirs by sitting politicians. John
Speaker 3: Fetterman's new book has to be one of the strangest
Speaker 3: you'll find, none of the genre's usual tropes.
Speaker 2: No can do optimism. That's why I.
Speaker 3: Never read these things. Ridiculous. Usually they're not written by
Speaker 3: the person and they're just never ending. Can do optimism,
Speaker 3: affability the evidence of a politician's instinct to gladhand for
Speaker 3: the next election. I mean, just you know, trying to
Speaker 3: work you for the next time they run. And they're
Speaker 3: just always so phony. It's like a campaign ad or whatever.
Speaker 3: But that's not what it is.
Speaker 2: In this one.
Speaker 3: It's not entirely clear from Unfettered whether Federman plans to
Speaker 3: ever run again for any election. And he talks about
Speaker 3: how he had been in depth about being hospitalized for
Speaker 3: a stroke for a few months before he beat doctor Oz,
Speaker 3: and how when he was elected to the US Senate
Speaker 3: he felt nothing. The next day he was in a
Speaker 3: daze of doom, staring at a bridge contemplating suicide. The
Speaker 3: day after being elected to the US Senate. I'm not
Speaker 3: actually read this. I find it really interesting. He doesn't
Speaker 3: show up for a lot of votes, so I don't
Speaker 3: know that you said earlier. You don't know why he
Speaker 3: hasn't resigned. Maybe he's just going to play out his
Speaker 3: term and then never run again. Well, I just need
Speaker 3: to support himself though, with some money from somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially after his heart stoppage. I would think he's
Speaker 1: either completely rededicated to being a senator and the time
Speaker 1: he has left, or he wants to quit to not
Speaker 1: you know, upset his ticker again. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: He is one of the Democrats who voted to reopen
Speaker 3: the government by a way, So I haven't heard any
Speaker 3: of this with Katie Kirk that we're about to play.
Speaker 3: He did went on her podcast and I heard some
Speaker 3: stuff about it. Sounded interesting. This is Fetterman talking to
Speaker 3: news legend.
Speaker 7: Katie Kirk, a father of young children, was shot in
Speaker 7: public because of his political views, and that's a tragedy
Speaker 7: and give people the space to grieve.
Speaker 5: Do you think that flags should have been flown at
Speaker 5: half staff? Do you think his body should have been
Speaker 5: flown on air force too? Do you think he should
Speaker 5: have posthumously given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I think
Speaker 5: some people felt that that was perhaps over the top
Speaker 5: in terms of mourning someone like Charlie Kirk, How did
Speaker 5: you feel about that?
Speaker 7: I'd say that that was his choice and his prerogative,
Speaker 7: and that's that's where that's and that was that was
Speaker 7: really entirely up to him.
Speaker 5: Did you have any issues now in hindsight over some
Speaker 5: of the things that Charlie Kirk said and some of
Speaker 5: the rhetoric he used during his life.
Speaker 7: I didn't agree with with much of it. I didn't
Speaker 7: closely followed his specific kinds of views. That would never
Speaker 7: justify what's happened.
Speaker 1: What's the context of that question, Katie, What are you
Speaker 1: driving at?
Speaker 3: She's trying to get him to say bad things about Trump.
Speaker 2: That's what everybody does.
Speaker 3: Trump went too far and honoring Charlie Kirk, and then
Speaker 3: he dig deeper when they don't have a good answer.
Speaker 3: That that's the only thing you can get out of
Speaker 3: anything in politics. So to get you to say something
Speaker 3: good about Trump or bad about Trump, that was very annoying.
Speaker 1: Star follow up question the whole did they go too
Speaker 1: far in the tributes? Now, that's Trump's prerogative. What about
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's rhetoric? Do you have any issues with his rhetoric?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: Sure, but what does that have to do with them
Speaker 1: getting shot in the neck.
Speaker 3: Back to the book, most of Unfettered is unrelentingly dour
Speaker 3: and mournful. Despite having parents who quote provided me with
Speaker 3: every comfort, Fetterman identifies strongly with blue collar workers who
Speaker 3: feel betrayed and forgotten.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3: He recounts the many times he felt overwhelmed by shame
Speaker 3: and self loathing. I didn't deserve anything except loneliness and
Speaker 3: sadness and isolation. Who about themselves as an adult? I
Speaker 3: didn't deserve just the stroke that brought on the depression. Obviously,
Speaker 3: I didn't deserve anything except loneliness and sadness and isolation.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, he spent six weeks at Walter
Speaker 3: Reed National Military Medical Center being treated for severe depression.
Speaker 3: Six weeks a month and a half is a long
Speaker 3: time to be in the hospital for depression. His memoir
Speaker 3: is dedicated to anyone with depression, which includes extended quotations
Speaker 3: from staffers and family members who implored him to obtain
Speaker 3: medical treatment and stick with it. His wife spends a
Speaker 3: lot of her time taking care to ensure that their
Speaker 3: three children don't blame themselves for their father's state.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's sad.
Speaker 3: His children covered Fetterman's hospital room with colorful post it
Speaker 3: notes reminding him how much he has loved.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's some powerful stuff there, My goodness. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: fabulous and wise Peggy Noonan touches on his book and
Speaker 1: kind of reviews it and points out that he doesn't
Speaker 1: mind talking about where he stands and why, isn't afraid
Speaker 1: of big issues, and is most animated when speaking of
Speaker 1: his non progressive views. And she goes into some detail
Speaker 1: on that and compares it and contrasts it with Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's hilariously shallow book, which is hilariously shallow.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 3: The New York Times doesn't mention Kamala Harris, but they
Speaker 3: beat up Fetterman for not taking, you know, a stronger
Speaker 3: stand on certain issues and overlooking some issues he's been
Speaker 3: on the wrong side of, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: A guy just wrote a book about. He dedicates it
Speaker 3: to people with depression. His book is about being a
Speaker 3: guy who had a horrible depression and how it factors
Speaker 3: into his political life.
Speaker 2: You don't get that.
Speaker 3: He's not really interested in having to explain his views
Speaker 3: on this vote or that vote.
Speaker 2: Ah, find that interesting.
Speaker 3: Here's something they worth saying, I think. As he points
Speaker 3: out there, he says the big turnaround for him with
Speaker 3: his depression was doctors convincing him that, uh, how awful
Speaker 3: it would be for his kids and his family if
Speaker 3: he killed himself, and then all those post it notes
Speaker 3: his family put up. That's an interesting thing to know
Speaker 3: if you're ever dealing with somebody with depression the whole
Speaker 3: here's who you would affect and a reason to live
Speaker 3: actually had an effect on a guy's depressed as am.
Speaker 3: I've never been like that, Thank god, I can't imagine
Speaker 3: what that's like, but that actually pulled him out of it.
Speaker 2: The man, this would not be good for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely true. Yeah, I will just tell
Speaker 1: you that's absolutely true. Speaking of a healthy mind, A
Speaker 1: couple of thoughts, why don't we break semi on time?
Speaker 1: A couple of thoughts about AI and and it's effect
Speaker 1: on people's brains and just staying healthy in your head.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give any more away than that.
Speaker 2: Don't care. This is gonna be funny, deep, both.
Speaker 1: Both both deep and funny. The old DNF. That's what
Speaker 1: I bring to the table.
Speaker 2: Huh, that's next day here.
Speaker 1: Barmstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: This show created a bonding experience for like seventy thousand
Speaker 3: people all at once.
Speaker 5: There's something very special about that.
Speaker 3: My main goal is to give something to the fans
Speaker 3: that they didn't expect.
Speaker 2: That's good Travis Chelsey.
Speaker 1: He brings a lot of happiness.
Speaker 7: We basically have the same job.
Speaker 2: You got teen rage, I got.
Speaker 4: Teenage, You've got coach read, I've got my mom.
Speaker 2: So what is that?
Speaker 6: Michael Disney Plus December twelfth, the Taylor Swift docu series
Speaker 6: coming on your TV screen.
Speaker 3: Finally she's getting some attention. Well, if you're a Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift fan, you would love that. Just like if I
Speaker 3: saw Pete townshend was on Colbert the other night two
Speaker 3: nights ago and talking about a bunch of stuff with
Speaker 3: their new tour and everything like that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch that because I think Pete Townson, you
Speaker 2: like Taylor Swift. You're gonna watch that.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. She actually comes off as quite charming.
Speaker 3: I listened to Life as a Show a life of
Speaker 3: a show girl on the way to work today.
Speaker 2: That's how much I like.
Speaker 1: That nice teenage girl. Anyway, let's see where were we?
Speaker 1: So I came across a couple of tweets in a
Speaker 1: row that I thought were interesting. First was from Matt Walsh,
Speaker 1: with whom I agree a substantial amount of the time,
Speaker 1: but not always. But he writes AI is going to
Speaker 1: wipe out at least twenty five million jobs in the
Speaker 1: next five to ten years, probably many more. It will
Speaker 1: destroy every creative field. It will make it impossible to
Speaker 1: discern reality from fiction. It will absolutely obliterate what's left
Speaker 1: of the education system. Kids will go through twelve years
Speaker 1: of grade school and learn absolutely nothing. AI will do
Speaker 1: it all for them.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I don't understand why that would be, though.
Speaker 3: Why won't you learn anything because AI is teaching it?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that to go around. I agree
Speaker 3: with all those other ones. I'm not sure I agree
Speaker 3: with that one.
Speaker 1: Although he does say we have already seen the last
Speaker 1: truly literate generation.
Speaker 3: I think, if anything, AI could make it so much
Speaker 3: easier to homeparent or create your own little school and
Speaker 3: have the AI teachers with the kind of curriculum you want.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why. Okay, I don't want to get
Speaker 3: off on that, but that other stuff they mentioned. I
Speaker 3: think all that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: The part about the last truly literate generation is right
Speaker 1: because video has replaced reading.
Speaker 3: People do not read anymore. That's just a fact. And
Speaker 3: it's horrifying. All of this is coming in fast. There's
Speaker 3: still time to prevent some of the worst outcomes, or
Speaker 3: at least put them off. But our leaders aren't doing
Speaker 3: a single thing about any of them. I'm not sure, Matt,
Speaker 3: there's anything they can do. None of them are taking
Speaker 3: it seriously.
Speaker 1: We're sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can
Speaker 1: see from miles away. It drives me nuts. Are we
Speaker 1: really just going to lie down let Ai take everything
Speaker 1: from us? Is that the plan?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: I yes, there is zero that can be done about it.
Speaker 3: I had this conversation with a smart person just the
Speaker 3: other night. It's a well, we could either do it
Speaker 3: and lead the way or let China lead the way.
Speaker 2: Which do you think is going to be better? But
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And then I actually became aware of this because I
Speaker 1: saw another tweet Michael Knowles joking well, it's an actual
Speaker 1: groc search that he posted. Hey Groc, will you let
Speaker 1: me keep my job if I agree to stop at
Speaker 1: Waltz from talking smack about you.
Speaker 2: I talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: It's fascinating a thing, a book or a podcast that
Speaker 3: I was into literacy as a thing reading books has
Speaker 3: only lasted and it's ending now. Only lasted about three
Speaker 3: hundred years most people were illiterate. People regularly reading books
Speaker 3: didn't happen until the seventeen hundreds, and now it's gonna
Speaker 3: go away. So it had about a three hundred year
Speaker 3: lifespan for all of human history of people reading a blip.
Speaker 1: How interesting. And then this from another one of my
Speaker 1: great favorite thinkers, Greg Lukianoff, who posts a quote from
Speaker 1: Friedrich Nietzsche. He says Nietzsche isn't usually my guy. Too
Speaker 1: many teenage would be Uber mentioned, obermentioned, but on walking
Speaker 1: he nailed it. The quote is only thoughts that come
Speaker 1: by walking have any value. And he was actually commenting
Speaker 1: on a tweet by someone else who says a ludicrous
Speaker 1: number of the greatest thinkers in human history cited long
Speaker 1: walks as the blueprint for developing a healthy and powerful mind.
Speaker 1: But yeah, don't worry, you're different.
Speaker 2: What was that first one from Nietzsche.
Speaker 1: Only thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is really good.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking, you know, Dylan O'Sullivan had that
Speaker 1: second quote, and I was thinking, Yeah, of all the
Speaker 1: great thinkers I've admired who have said I have my
Speaker 1: greatest thoughts when I take a long walk, and not
Speaker 1: a long walk while they're listening to perhaps our podcast
Speaker 1: or scrolling through or whatever, just walking.
Speaker 3: I wonder if a long drive would work too. Most
Speaker 3: of these people said this before cars were a thing.
Speaker 3: I do some great thinking if I'm driving and if
Speaker 3: I leave the radio off or whatever.
Speaker 1: Highway, this is not a good segment for beefing up
Speaker 1: our business. But no, yeah, yeah, I've got to take
Speaker 1: more long walks.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I actually really like it. My role in the morning
Speaker 1: is uh, no inputs in the morning walk.
Speaker 3: The problem is I think that's absolutely true, and we
Speaker 3: should probably all do more of that.
Speaker 2: But man, a walk with a really good podcast. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: It is so great.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite things in life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just a question of balance, I think probably,
Speaker 1: like so many.
Speaker 3: Things my kids, I just cannot get him into reading currently,
Speaker 3: Henry's reading the original Jurassic Park book, Oh, Michael Crichton,
Speaker 3: one of the best selling books of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's reading it for school. I mean, he's being forced
Speaker 3: to read, and I'm hoping it'll catch on. His brother
Speaker 3: can't imagine anything worse than reading. I'll always say, if
Speaker 3: I could do anything today, I would read all day long,
Speaker 3: read and play the piano all day long.
Speaker 2: And they had kill myself if I had to do.
Speaker 1: But well, there's a contrast, I know. Yeah, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe you could get them that zombie Granny app and
Speaker 1: have like your dad's dad encouraging your kids to read.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great? No, it'd be creepy and sick,
Speaker 1: be weird. Yeah, yeah, so true. Anyway, unplugged down again, folks.
Speaker 1: Good for your mind, good for your soul.
Speaker 3: My brother made to MAYI videos of like my dad
Speaker 3: dancing around that are hilarious, and I said, have you
Speaker 3: shown these teams? He said, no, I'm not gonna let
Speaker 3: him see you.
Speaker 2: Why not it's I don't know why. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: because I thought he would like it.
Speaker 3: But it is weird to see to see somebody, you know,
Speaker 3: doing something They never have done or would do.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you gotta do that.
Speaker 3: Go on grock or whatever the imagined thing you can
Speaker 3: click on. It's free and it takes just a couple
Speaker 3: of seconds. But you can make people do all kinds
Speaker 3: of stuff that they would never do. And it's hilarious
Speaker 3: the way it messages with your brain. Yeah, yeah, did
Speaker 3: I tell you that I did mess with that?
Speaker 1: Would? Judy and I have this still picture of us
Speaker 1: in a punt which is like a fat gondola in Britain,
Speaker 1: or took a punt ride down the river and I
Speaker 1: just told it, have all jump in water, and it
Speaker 1: had a video of us there in Cambridge on the
Speaker 1: punt and the two of us in the gondolier the
Speaker 1: punter all jumped into the water in this video look
Speaker 1: perfectly realistic.
Speaker 3: A buddy of mine has got cancer and he's going through
Speaker 3: some pretty hard treatment and I sent a video and
Speaker 3: he sent a picture of him standing in front of
Speaker 3: the hospital and I said, you look pretty good to
Speaker 3: me and him jumping up and doing a handstand, which
Speaker 3: he thought was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Wow, hey kids, it's that time again.
Speaker 2: With Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 3: I used to tell you mess with that if you
Speaker 3: haven't hit something. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap up the show for the day. In the week.
Speaker 1: There he is Michael Angelo in the control room, national treasure. Michael,
Speaker 1: what's your final thought?
Speaker 3: All Right?
Speaker 6: I got an idea that new two way app. I'm
Speaker 6: not going to use it for decease ones, but for
Speaker 6: dead celebrities. So I was gonna do an AI, Bob
Speaker 6: Saggat or Norm McDonald and become friends with them.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: Cool, not at all disturbing. That's a good idea, Katie
Speaker 1: Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought case, I.
Speaker 3: Have written on my paper AI nor McDonald Really, Michael Angela, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're on the exact same page.
Speaker 2: I see exactly what I would do.
Speaker 1: Wow, that weird synchronicity or jack final thoughtfully stupid selfish
Speaker 1: punt dum Yeah.
Speaker 3: I uh. I went out to dinner with my kids
Speaker 3: last night, kind of on the idea of like you know,
Speaker 3: old school, no II phones put away and everything like that.
Speaker 3: We just sat there waiting for our food, talking, eating,
Speaker 3: hanging around.
Speaker 2: God dang it, there's nothing better than that. That's what
Speaker 2: you need. Those are the inputs you need.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's life. Real people don't forget. My final thought
Speaker 1: is crass commercialism. The ruin the entire country knew some
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Speaker 1: are loving it. We're working on some bumper stickers for you.
Speaker 1: Oh here's gotta be Gavy's campaign slogan. Your final thought
Speaker 1: was make yourself a little richer. We don't see that money.
Speaker 2: We don't know who gets it. The staff they do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you are You knew you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1: I handle the money and I've been robbing you blind
Speaker 1: for years.
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