WEBVTT - It's So Cool Until It Kills Us 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.750 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.790 --> 0:00:07.770 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.830 --> 0:00:11.530 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:11.710 --> 0:00:24.680 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. Ah, the rhythm of 0:00:24.739 --> 0:00:28.070 life is back. Kids at school, 60 Minutes is new, 0:00:28.790 --> 0:00:32.110 NFL football games, all that sort of stuff. Soon-to-be playoff baseball. 0:00:32.290 --> 0:00:34.030 Loving it all. Excellent. 0:00:34.370 --> 0:00:34.710 Excellent. 0:00:34.750 --> 0:00:38.360 You could mournfully mourn the summer passing, but I like 0:00:38.380 --> 0:00:41.080 your forward-looking take on the challenge attitude. 0:00:41.140 --> 0:00:42.479 Way to go. You've got to look forward. 0:00:43.140 --> 0:00:43.800 Yes, you do. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.220 What was I going to say? Oh, so Friday, as 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.580 we talked about a lot, was the 25-year anniversary of 9-11, 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.779 got a lot of coverage. The day before, the 10th, 0:00:54.860 --> 0:00:58.740 was the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:04.270 which is a horrifying event to some, but a gleeful 0:01:04.330 --> 0:01:07.690 event to others, it turns out, which is highly troubling. 0:01:08.110 --> 0:01:10.410 So where did they do this man-on-the-street stuff? 0:01:12.010 --> 0:01:14.730 I believe it was in the Philadelphia environs. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.980 I'm sure you could do it lots of different places 0:01:18.140 --> 0:01:21.440 where they just ask some people what they felt about 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.200 the assassination of Charlie Kirk. This is what they had 0:01:23.220 --> 0:01:23.480 to say. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.770 What are your thoughts on Charlie Kirk? 0:01:26.930 --> 0:01:28.929 He got everything that was coming to him, and I wish. 0:01:28.870 --> 0:01:31.690 It had been longer. So do you think it was 0:01:31.890 --> 0:01:33.130 good that he was assassinated? 0:01:33.150 --> 0:01:35.730 I think it was hilarious that he was assassinated. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.000 How do you feel about Charlie Kirk? 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.340 I feel fantastic. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.320 I mean, I think he had what was coming to 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:43.080 him personally. 0:01:43.330 --> 0:01:44.490 And why did he deserve to die? 0:01:45.130 --> 0:01:47.530 Well, he did say that, you know, gun deaths, you 0:01:47.570 --> 0:01:49.830 need at least one to make guns worth it. 0:01:49.970 --> 0:01:54.830 So I think his was it. I don't think that 0:01:55.150 --> 0:01:59.080 sort of talk would have happened or gone unremarked upon 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.880 20 years ago, no matter who it was that got shot. 0:02:04.460 --> 0:02:07.370 We just didn't talk that way back then. Back then, 0:02:07.770 --> 0:02:10.070 not that many years ago. Anyway, here's more of that. 0:02:13.380 --> 0:02:13.919 Rest in hell. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.840 Do you condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk? To condemn? 0:02:17.860 --> 0:02:22.540 I don't know. When it happened, I didn't really care, 0:02:22.580 --> 0:02:24.940 to be honest. I'm not even going to lie. My 0:02:24.980 --> 0:02:28.019 reaction was to laugh. And then when I saw the video, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.049 I was like, okay. And yeah, that was kind of 0:02:32.070 --> 0:02:32.530 a reaction. 0:02:33.210 --> 0:02:35.130 Kind of speaking to what I was talking about earlier 0:02:35.169 --> 0:02:39.550 about young people have seen so much grotesque violence online, 0:02:39.690 --> 0:02:41.350 it doesn't leave a mark at all. 0:02:42.570 --> 0:02:46.380 Yeah, I was going to withhold my comments other than. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:49.160 The. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.700 Well, let's go ahead and play the last one. 0:02:52.940 --> 0:02:54.959 What do you like to talk? 0:02:56.630 --> 0:02:59.630 Why is it F. Charlie Kirk? He's a racist. I'm 0:02:59.690 --> 0:03:00.540 glad that n * * * a' s dead. 0:03:00.820 --> 0:03:01.520 F * * * Charlie Kirk. 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.540 How is he a racist? How is he a racist? 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:04.280 You're a b * * * h- ass n * * * 0:03:04.100 --> 0:03:04.820 a too, you know that? 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:05.100 How so? 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:06.240 You're a b * * * h- ass n * * * a, bro. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.180 I'm not talking to you. I'm not the one walking 0:03:09.220 --> 0:03:10.200 away from a conversation. 0:03:10.220 --> 0:03:15.210 Yeah, so you got a handful of things going on there, 0:03:15.310 --> 0:03:17.410 and to your point, I think one of them is 0:03:17.450 --> 0:03:21.130 not only do they see horrifying death and bloodshed and 0:03:21.150 --> 0:03:24.450 stuff online to the point that they become desensitized. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:24.940 To it, but also. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.380 When so much of your experience is online, human beings 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:35.090 become abstractions. They're kind of just... Charlie Kirk was another 0:03:35.190 --> 0:03:39.930 character on my screen. He does not have the reality. 0:03:39.950 --> 0:03:43.230 And you're always talking about, are we the last generation 0:03:43.250 --> 0:03:48.580 that experienced life pre-online life? If I see someone die 0:03:48.620 --> 0:03:52.060 on a screen, my reaction is based on my entire 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.060 life's experience, which is experiencing human beings as human beings. 0:03:55.670 --> 0:04:00.310 other than, like, TV sitcom characters. A lot of these kids, 0:04:00.690 --> 0:04:04.510 most of their experience of other human beings is screen deep. 0:04:05.710 --> 0:04:09.360 And so they can't even... Even if they wanted to, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.640 they have a hard time relating to an actual human 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.960 being who felt a bullet rip through his throat, realized 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.960 he was going to die in that moment, realized he 0:04:17.980 --> 0:04:19.960 would never see his wife and children again, and his 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.290 kids would grow up without him, and he bled out 0:04:22.330 --> 0:04:25.710 on the pavement. They... It's not that they don't want 0:04:25.810 --> 0:04:29.150 to appreciate that. I'm not sure they can. 0:04:29.630 --> 0:04:31.250 No, I don't think they can either. I know my 0:04:31.290 --> 0:04:34.010 son can't, and it disturbs me that he can't. 0:04:34.750 --> 0:04:37.450 Well, and then you've got the indoctrination, and, you know, 0:04:37.490 --> 0:04:38.810 I threatened to do this. I never did. 0:04:40.910 --> 0:04:43.800 And what I threatened to do is talk about Mao 0:04:43.810 --> 0:04:49.440 Zedong in the Cultural Revolutions, the way they ensured obedience, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.380 compliance with their policies. And it had to do with 0:04:53.500 --> 0:04:58.349 dividing humanity into two groups, the good and the evil, 0:04:58.550 --> 0:05:02.830 to grossly oversimplify it. But since the kids are getting 0:05:02.910 --> 0:05:06.350 taught a lot of that woke stuff in school, they've 0:05:06.410 --> 0:05:10.100 now equated, well, quoting, I can't remember who said this. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:10.940 I should have written it down. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.700 It might have been James Lindsay, but Political disagreement is 0:05:13.740 --> 0:05:17.730 increasingly treated as a serious moral offense rather than a 0:05:17.810 --> 0:05:20.589 simple difference of opinion. When you see the world that way, 0:05:20.750 --> 0:05:25.150 punishing someone for holding different views becomes a moral good. 0:05:26.210 --> 0:05:28.919 And that's a good explanation of Mao's thing too. But yeah, 0:05:28.950 --> 0:05:34.360 so those people, young people who are disgusting and horrifying 0:05:34.420 --> 0:05:40.559 to me, they were taught Charlie Kirk was a murderously 0:05:40.700 --> 0:05:47.170 hateful character. Therefore, to celebrate his assassinations like celebrating the 0:05:47.210 --> 0:05:48.730 fact that Hitler finally. 0:05:48.470 --> 0:05:51.390 Killed himself in the bunker morally to them. 0:05:52.810 --> 0:05:53.750 Yeah, it's pretty troubling. 0:05:54.750 --> 0:05:57.130 I'd rather demonize the people who taught them that than 0:05:57.190 --> 0:06:00.800 to demonize the young dolts. Right. 0:06:01.260 --> 0:06:05.460 Yeah, they didn't raise themselves. I don't know if there's 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.500 any turning this around, but I get... As I've said many, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.180 many times, I get flipped off regularly, angrily flipped off, 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.760 not even just like a casual joking flip off because 0:06:17.820 --> 0:06:24.219 I see their face. And sometimes the just angry because 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.250 I'm driving a Tesla Cybertruck and. They don't like the 0:06:28.310 --> 0:06:32.570 fact that Elon helped Trump. I can't even wrap my 0:06:32.610 --> 0:06:36.190 head around being that angry about what somebody else is driving. 0:06:36.650 --> 0:06:38.270 But I get that on a regular basis, and it 0:06:38.310 --> 0:06:43.659 makes me so disturbed. Not because I give a crap 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.140 what anybody thinks about it. how I dress, how I drive, 0:06:46.180 --> 0:06:48.779 anything like that. But just that people can get that 0:06:48.860 --> 0:06:52.320 angry about politics. As I've said before, I guarantee you 0:06:52.779 --> 0:06:56.260 that for those people, if, if somebody was beating me 0:06:56.339 --> 0:06:58.960 down because of that, they would think that was awesome. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.240 He got what he deserved. Like they said about Charlie Kirk. 0:07:02.260 --> 0:07:05.200 Well, that's not a political disagreement treated as a serious 0:07:05.260 --> 0:07:05.940 moral offense. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.020 That is not a good place for society to be. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.060 No, no. 0:07:09.500 --> 0:07:12.730 So a couple other exhibits, uh, in the prosecution of 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.070 the modern world, if you will, um, And a number 0:07:16.100 --> 0:07:20.140 of people have written about this. Filmmaker Legzi Alexander, who 0:07:20.220 --> 0:07:25.720 directed a movie called Green Street Hooligans, Daniel Radcliffe was 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.720 in it, and I can't remember who else. It's about 0:07:28.740 --> 0:07:33.380 hooliganism and alleged white nationalism in Britain and that sort 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.230 of thing. It was a pretty big deal, and it's very, 0:07:35.290 --> 0:07:37.990 very well made. But when that poor young woman, that 0:07:38.050 --> 0:07:41.610 young mother who just ended maternity leave and went back 0:07:41.650 --> 0:07:44.370 to work for Bank of America... got stabbed to death 0:07:44.430 --> 0:07:46.530 on the street by that lunatic in New York City. 0:07:47.010 --> 0:07:48.340 She celebrated it. 0:07:48.930 --> 0:07:52.650 She put out memes of like the bat light, except 0:07:52.690 --> 0:07:57.730 instead of the bat, it's Luigi Mangione celebrating that this 0:07:57.810 --> 0:08:00.370 woman had been stabbed because she's one of the evildoers. 0:08:00.410 --> 0:08:03.670 This gal happens to be Palestinian-American, for what that's worth. 0:08:05.910 --> 0:08:10.890 That's bizarre in the true sense of the word. So 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:17.570 strange as to be Difficult to comprehend. That idea that, 0:08:17.690 --> 0:08:20.310 and back to the whole political disagreement, is a serious 0:08:20.410 --> 0:08:28.660 moral failing. And then she explained it. Israel doesn't care 0:08:28.700 --> 0:08:30.380 about the woman who got killed. They care about the 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.000 positive rating Bank of America gave them in the middle 0:08:33.020 --> 0:08:37.900 of a genocide. There is huge money at stake. Okay, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.240 so a young mom bleeding out on the pavement is good. 0:08:41.850 --> 0:08:44.130 Okay, sorry, I didn't really, I didn't follow you there. 0:08:44.870 --> 0:08:49.390 Here's another article about how Barron Trump lives an extremely 0:08:49.500 --> 0:08:54.300 reclusive life because of the assassination attempts on his dad. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.260 And also, he'd grown close to Charlie Kirk. They were 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:02.600 actual friends. And so he more or less lives in 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:06.560 hiding because of the political violence and the number of both. 0:09:06.860 --> 0:09:10.040 There's a specific Iranian plot against him. There's a $ 10 0:09:09.820 --> 0:09:11.140 million bounty on his head. 0:09:11.650 --> 0:09:14.719 From Iran. And, you know, we never got to it. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:15.420 I read the headline. 0:09:15.620 --> 0:09:21.520 They're now hiring local criminals all over the world to 0:09:21.580 --> 0:09:24.000 do their bidding. Like, there was a case in Romania 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.810 where they hired some local gangsters to beat down an 0:09:26.870 --> 0:09:29.609 Iranian dissident, and there was an incident, I think it 0:09:29.650 --> 0:09:33.590 was in France, that was fairly similar. So, yeah, the poor, 0:09:33.809 --> 0:09:36.170 poor kid has got to, I mean, you know, all 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:42.080 presidential kids They're protected and keep a low-ish profile, but 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:47.630 like the Obama girls went to a private school in Washington, D.C., 0:09:47.670 --> 0:09:49.050 but they went to the damn school. 0:09:49.250 --> 0:09:53.040 Well, yeah, I actually know someone who protected one of 0:09:53.050 --> 0:09:55.700 the Bush daughters all through her college years, following her 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.560 around for parties and bars and sorority houses, stuff like that, 0:09:59.580 --> 0:10:01.740 but they're they didn't really live in fear. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:03.860 Right, right, exactly. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.920 Yeah, it's just, oh, it was going to bring me 0:10:08.220 --> 0:10:15.520 ultimately to this. 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And then it's just a race to the bottom, 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.580 you see, is the thing. 0:11:58.660 --> 0:12:00.079 Yeah, yeah. 0:12:00.140 --> 0:12:03.120 That would stick with them better if they didn't view 0:12:03.490 --> 0:12:05.830 people on the other side as evil. 0:12:07.110 --> 0:12:08.570 But we're the good people. 0:12:09.290 --> 0:12:14.030 So assassinating us would be totally different than assassinating the 0:12:14.170 --> 0:12:17.410 evil people would be their point of view, which is 0:12:17.590 --> 0:12:20.320 obviously the sort of thing that leads you down the 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.920 road you're describing. So an Emerson poll came out a 0:12:22.940 --> 0:12:27.950 couple of weeks ago. It was asking about Luigi Mangione, 0:12:28.110 --> 0:12:34.429 the deranged, misguided, barely 20-something idiot. Were his actions acceptable 0:12:34.490 --> 0:12:38.810 or unacceptable? And 16.7% of respondents said his actions were 0:12:38.830 --> 0:12:43.370 either completely acceptable or somewhat acceptable. This is not a fluke. 0:12:43.429 --> 0:12:45.030 It's the same finding as the firm's 2024 poll, December 0:12:45.030 --> 0:12:46.290 2024 poll. So about 17% are one out of six. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.880 And after 20 months, the public trial, national news coverage, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.949 the number has held steady. Public opinion had every opportunity 0:12:59.970 --> 0:13:03.410 to self-correct, and it hasn't. It means that Americans' tolerance 0:13:03.450 --> 0:13:06.480 for political violence is becoming hardwired into the public consciousness, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.240 they write. Let's see, this is Adrian Norman writing. And 0:13:11.260 --> 0:13:13.400 the violence isn't limited to one type of victim, and 0:13:13.420 --> 0:13:20.030 it isn't confined to the opinion polls. Federal prosecutors argued 0:13:20.090 --> 0:13:23.290 on August 2025 court filing that the killing of Mr. 0:13:23.330 --> 0:13:26.729 Thompson helped inspire the mass shooting at the National Football 0:13:26.750 --> 0:13:28.510 League headquarters a month prior. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:30.940 Simply put, Mr. 0:13:30.980 --> 0:13:33.300 Mangione hoped to normalize the use of violence to achieve 0:13:33.370 --> 0:13:36.510 ideological or political objectives since the murder of certain quarters 0:13:36.550 --> 0:13:38.709 of the public who openly identify as acolytes of the 0:13:38.730 --> 0:13:41.950 defendant have increasingly begun to view violence as an acceptable 0:13:41.970 --> 0:13:46.090 or even necessary substitute for reasoned political disagreement. Well, and 0:13:46.130 --> 0:13:48.270 if you tended not to believe that, if you were 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.800 taught every day in school or damn near every day 0:13:51.300 --> 0:13:55.780 that their speech is violence, and we've talked about this before, 0:13:56.450 --> 0:13:59.050 If speech is violence, then of course you can answer 0:13:59.090 --> 0:14:03.700 it with violence. Because every human society recognizes the right 0:14:03.750 --> 0:14:09.500 to self-defense. But to justify our violence that's just in 0:14:09.540 --> 0:14:11.420 response to speech, first we've got to. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.059 Teach the kids that their speech is violence. 0:14:13.300 --> 0:14:17.120 It goes right back to the educational system and how 0:14:17.140 --> 0:14:19.230 it's been captured by leftist lunatics. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.940 So a couple of tech things coming up. Left-handers are 0:14:22.980 --> 0:14:26.500 hating the new foldable iPhone. How I used AI in 0:14:26.540 --> 0:14:27.460 my son's phone. 0:14:27.500 --> 0:14:28.120 Who do I sue? 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.190 Also, a tip I'm taking to look at your phone 0:14:32.230 --> 0:14:34.570 less that I think might be working, looking at it less. 0:14:34.910 --> 0:14:35.410 All coming up. 0:14:35.430 --> 0:14:35.690 Stay here. 0:14:37.310 --> 0:14:38.370 Armstrong and Getty. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.160 When we look at the hardware design for the iPhone Duo, 0:14:43.180 --> 0:14:46.110 you'll notice it has an asymmetrical design with sharp right 0:14:46.130 --> 0:14:48.530 corners on the hinge side and soft rounded corners on 0:14:48.570 --> 0:14:49.190 the outside. 0:14:49.330 --> 0:14:51.010 And they do this intentionally. 0:14:50.510 --> 0:14:53.050 So you can have a nice soft rounded edge resting 0:14:53.110 --> 0:14:55.800 on your hand rather than a sharp corner stabbing into 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.120 your palm. But even worse than that, the iPhone Duo 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.940 also had a major software change because instead of having 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.940 your home screen dock, toolbars and app controls on the 0:15:04.060 --> 0:15:06.660 bottom of your phone like they always were now they're 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.630 going to be on the right hand side but if 0:15:08.650 --> 0:15:10.790 you're left-handed you're going to have a sharp right corner 0:15:10.850 --> 0:15:12.670 stabbing the palm of your hand and you're going to 0:15:12.690 --> 0:15:15.450 have to reach all the way across an even wider phone. 0:15:15.470 --> 0:15:20.070 Just to send a text message oh there's some guy 0:15:20.110 --> 0:15:24.229 claiming that the new apple foldable iphone is uh unfair 0:15:24.250 --> 0:15:25.390 to left-handers i can. 0:15:25.290 --> 0:15:28.700 Tell you this stabs left-handers that's my headline I've. 0:15:28.620 --> 0:15:30.720 Taken in a lot of these review videos on different 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.060 things over the last couple of years. God, some of 0:15:33.660 --> 0:15:37.400 the so-called problems are so overblown in these reviews. I mean, 0:15:37.420 --> 0:15:39.280 you got to talk about something, but I did that 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.420 with a lot of vehicles I've purchased and stuff like that. 0:15:41.460 --> 0:15:43.420 And then you get the car and it's like, okay, 0:15:43.470 --> 0:15:45.750 the cup holder's a little further up than I would 0:15:45.790 --> 0:15:47.670 like it to be. Maybe, I don't know. I can't 0:15:47.690 --> 0:15:53.990 imagine doing a 15-minute video about it. Anyway, back to 0:15:54.010 --> 0:15:55.930 the tech thing. And I think I want to get 0:15:55.970 --> 0:15:59.910 that iPhone because I take in Every TV show, movies, sports, 0:15:59.970 --> 0:16:02.170 football games, everything on my phone. So it would be 0:16:02.210 --> 0:16:06.150 handy for me to have that screen. Two things I've done. 0:16:08.510 --> 0:16:10.130 I read a little piece in the New York Times 0:16:10.170 --> 0:16:12.320 about ways to look at your phone less. And one 0:16:12.340 --> 0:16:15.120 of them was to turn the picture to grayscale instead 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.580 of the colors. Because part of the dopamine hit is 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.900 the lurid, bright, vivid colors that you get. So I 0:16:20.940 --> 0:16:24.160 turned my phone to the grayscale. And it is much, much, 0:16:24.420 --> 0:16:26.140 much less satisfying to look at. 0:16:26.660 --> 0:16:27.520 How interesting. 0:16:27.660 --> 0:16:30.280 I know. I was surprised myself. It's just kind of 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.100 like to look at it is kind of what a letdown. 0:16:34.700 --> 0:16:38.970 So where is that? Is that in settings? We're in settings. 0:16:39.230 --> 0:16:41.730 And the key is because sometimes you want the color, 0:16:42.130 --> 0:16:45.170 like especially if you're doing photos or watching videos. So 0:16:45.210 --> 0:16:47.989 I did the shortcut to where you triple click the 0:16:48.050 --> 0:16:49.930 right hand button. I can switch it to color real 0:16:49.950 --> 0:16:51.630 quick if I want to do a picture, then switch 0:16:51.670 --> 0:16:53.260 it back to gray. So I'm going to keep my 0:16:53.300 --> 0:16:55.200 phone that way from here on out because it is. 0:16:55.690 --> 0:16:59.830 Definitely less stimulating and exciting to look at a gray phone. 0:17:00.620 --> 0:17:04.660 One other tech thing. For better or worse, I showed 0:17:04.700 --> 0:17:06.740 my son a way to use AI for a homework 0:17:06.780 --> 0:17:09.139 assignment he had yesterday, which I thought was pretty handy. 0:17:09.540 --> 0:17:11.980 He got this assignment in English. He gets to pick 0:17:12.020 --> 0:17:16.020 a book to read, but it had some limits on 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.280 what books he could read. It had to be a 0:17:17.310 --> 0:17:19.550 certain number of pages. It had to be blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 0:17:19.650 --> 0:17:21.669 all these lists. I said, we can try this. I 0:17:21.710 --> 0:17:24.850 just took a picture of it. put it on Claude 0:17:24.910 --> 0:17:27.369 and said, my freshman in high school needs to follow 0:17:27.390 --> 0:17:29.859 these rules for books, suggest some books. And it suggested 0:17:29.910 --> 0:17:32.459 like 10 different kinds of books. If you'd like this 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:33.739 kind of book, if you'd like this kind of book, 0:17:33.780 --> 0:17:35.680 if you'd like this kind of book. And we picked 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.380 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's, the right page length and skill 0:17:40.420 --> 0:17:43.220 level and everything like that. And I thought that was 0:17:43.260 --> 0:17:44.900 a really handy way to use AI. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.200 Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. Love it. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.700 God, the way it can just take a picture of 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.730 something and it reads it for you and comprehends it 0:17:52.790 --> 0:17:53.310 is amazing. 0:17:53.369 --> 0:17:55.770 It's great up until the moment it kills us all. 0:17:55.830 --> 0:17:59.370 Yeah, I used it for hours yesterday trying to plan 0:17:59.410 --> 0:18:03.510 a vacation using all sorts of different possibilities and scenarios 0:18:03.550 --> 0:18:07.070 and combinations. It was wonderfully, wonderfully productive. And then we'll 0:18:07.130 --> 0:18:09.480 all be dead, but we'll be productive until that moment. 0:18:09.500 --> 0:18:12.780 Until it kills us, it is so cool. More on 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.720 the way. If you're missing a podcast, Armstrong and Getty 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:15.100 on demand. 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.220 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:18.430 --> 0:18:20.830 Well, we certainly need to begin to act urgently to 0:18:20.869 --> 0:18:25.000 address the challenges that exist. And unfortunately, Republicans have abandoned 0:18:25.020 --> 0:18:31.169 their responsibility. So under Speaker Mike Johnson, he killed a 0:18:31.250 --> 0:18:34.900 bipartisan task force, this Congress. that was prepared to do 0:18:34.940 --> 0:18:38.800 the serious work necessary to try to erect the guardrails 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.440 to protect the health, the safety, the well-being of the 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:42.080 American people. 0:18:42.380 --> 0:18:45.270 Talking about AI there. So that's Hakeem Jeffries likely to 0:18:45.310 --> 0:18:49.090 be the Speaker of the House soon. These Republicans sound 0:18:49.130 --> 0:18:56.570 like monsters. Saying Republicans have abandoned their responsibility around controlling AI. 0:18:56.630 --> 0:19:00.830 And Barack Obama speaking to a group yesterday behind closed 0:19:00.869 --> 0:19:03.330 doors apparently said we've got to make this a central issue. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.129 For Democrats running for president and in Congress, and I 0:19:07.430 --> 0:19:10.270 really am worried that this is going to turn into, 0:19:10.410 --> 0:19:12.449 and I don't even, it could go either direction. It's 0:19:12.470 --> 0:19:16.450 just like the masks thing or the vaccines thing. Somehow 0:19:16.490 --> 0:19:19.149 it gets established that one side is for and one 0:19:19.190 --> 0:19:23.360 side is against, and then it's, everybody gets locked into 0:19:23.380 --> 0:19:27.619 their positions because of their tribalism around their party. And 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.640 the best example is vaccines. For the past however many decades, 0:19:32.140 --> 0:19:32.440 it was. 0:19:34.670 --> 0:19:39.359 Liberals who are anti-vaccine and Republicans calling them crazy for it. 0:19:39.460 --> 0:19:42.260 But then when COVID hit for a variety of reasons, 0:19:42.300 --> 0:19:48.020 it got flipped So you were anti-Trump if you wanted 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:53.699 to get vaccines. But if that gets locked into AI, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.899 where it's seen as a partisan thing, being for or 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.590 against it, then we're really, really doomed. I hope that 0:20:00.619 --> 0:20:01.270 doesn't happen. 0:20:01.990 --> 0:20:05.210 When you ducked out fairly briefly last week to begin 0:20:05.230 --> 0:20:08.310 your journey, your jury odyssey. 0:20:10.609 --> 0:20:14.000 I was talking about it had dawned on me the 0:20:14.060 --> 0:20:21.270 other day how directionality has taken over our society. And 0:20:21.450 --> 0:20:25.060 it's a term I'd never really even heard. Directionally, I 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.440 agree with them. You know, they're trying to rein in AI. 0:20:28.580 --> 0:20:32.040 But we've become so tribal that you've got to go 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.780 in the accepted direction of your tribe. Even if, like, 0:20:36.020 --> 0:20:40.739 a reasonable correction of your course. Oh, we got this 0:20:40.850 --> 0:20:43.290 one wrong. We went too far. This is actually hurting people. 0:20:43.570 --> 0:20:46.470 Would be very, very smart. And everybody can see it's right. 0:20:46.830 --> 0:20:49.510 But you can't go directionally against it. 0:20:50.390 --> 0:20:51.130 And so you're right. 0:20:51.190 --> 0:20:54.119 We risk a situation in which, you know, one gets 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.560 coded left and the other point of view on AI 0:20:58.000 --> 0:20:58.860 gets coded right. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:20:59.570 And then. 0:21:00.010 --> 0:21:03.810 I don't know, whichever side ends up being pro-AI, says, well, yes, 0:21:03.930 --> 0:21:06.919 it killed 50 million people in the Western U.S., but 0:21:07.220 --> 0:21:10.880 that's no reason to go all liberal or vice versa. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:15.560 That's no reason to side with the fascists. And, oh, God, 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:17.399 it makes everybody so dumb. 0:21:18.030 --> 0:21:20.070 So, to present a different view on this than we 0:21:20.109 --> 0:21:22.949 were talking about in hour one, I guess. 0:21:22.970 --> 0:21:25.290 Oh, can I talk about the politics again, just real quick? 0:21:26.670 --> 0:21:29.300 I can't remember who it was pointed out that The 0:21:29.460 --> 0:21:33.439 Obama be afraid, be very afraid thing is straight out 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.639 of the Democrats' playbook. And that, whether it's COVID or 0:21:37.820 --> 0:21:41.200 climate change, is a big one. They go with the 0:21:41.220 --> 0:21:43.240