Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Ketty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: The President has attended major sporting events before as commander
Speaker 2: in chief, and he was a courtside regular as a
Speaker 2: New York businessman, but his presidence here tonight and all
Speaker 2: the security of rings as any fans crying foul.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they already hate Trump. But I got admit, if
Speaker 1: it was anybody take politics out of it completely, as
Speaker 1: a fan, I would be thinking, do you really need
Speaker 1: to come? Given what this does to well? Let Edokeef
Speaker 1: of CBS News lay out what it was like for
Speaker 1: people getting into the game.
Speaker 2: Well, the real actions on the court tonight. Hundreds of
Speaker 2: Secret Service and a thousand NYPD are also suiting up
Speaker 2: part of a massive security plan to protect the president.
Speaker 1: A long time New York Knicks.
Speaker 3: Fan, if you are not going to the game, we're
Speaker 3: asking you to avoid the area around Madison Square Garden tonight.
Speaker 2: A five block perimeter around Madison Square Garden is shut down.
Speaker 2: Ticket Holders are being asked to show up at least
Speaker 2: two hours early. The game comes a day after Five
Speaker 2: people were stabbed in Penn Station just below the Garden,
Speaker 2: one seriously injured.
Speaker 1: That's its own story. We need to talk about that later.
Speaker 1: Guy that had stabbed people years ago, loose on the
Speaker 1: street stabbing more people. Anyway, Well, what's your thoughts on
Speaker 1: that you got a grudge against a president showing up
Speaker 1: to an event you want to go to. I mean,
Speaker 1: because they don't need to be there. Now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put my fairness hat on. Think about if I was,
Speaker 1: if I had to deal with all that crap because
Speaker 1: Biden wanted to make a briefish appearance, say you're Obama.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's politics. So there's no political advantage
Speaker 1: for Trump being there? Is there? I wanted to go.
Speaker 1: He flung New York, and he grew up in New York,
Speaker 1: and he's a knicks man. I think that's what it
Speaker 1: was about. Yeah, yeah, I'd probably bitch about it, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry about it that much. Now, if I
Speaker 1: was going to the three hour line three hour line
Speaker 1: to get into the game, I'm an older man. I
Speaker 1: might need to have like an empty milk jog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a point on it. But yeah, yeah, if you were
Speaker 1: used to going to those viewing parties right outside the garden,
Speaker 1: which sound like just a great time. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would resent that some that those were closed down. So
Speaker 1: the booing might have been It's a democratic city in
Speaker 1: the same way that La no matter what happens, as
Speaker 1: we just saw, is going to vote for a Democrat.
Speaker 1: New York's kind of that way. And so then i't
Speaker 1: like Trump anyway. And then you waited in line for
Speaker 1: three hours. That does not exactly set up the mood
Speaker 1: of the crowd to cheer you when they were in
Speaker 1: line for three hours to get in to sit in
Speaker 1: there somewhere between seven thousand and a million dollars seat jikes. Anyways,
Speaker 1: during the national anthem that they put Trump up on
Speaker 1: the screen, and is there some cheering? Yeah, there's some.
Speaker 1: I would have called it because I was watching it live.
Speaker 1: Sixty five thirty five two thirds a third who cares? Oh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. That's a meaningless thing, far from the
Speaker 1: greatest challenge the Republic is facing. I at the present moment,
Speaker 1: I couldn't stop just trying to recognize people in the
Speaker 1: front row every time there was a player, a timeout
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I was wondering do do those people like,
Speaker 1: had they ever met before? Do they know each other?
Speaker 1: Or do you become friends? Or like now that Chalomey
Speaker 1: and Spike Lee are high fiven or had they ever
Speaker 1: met before the Knicks thing got out of got on hand?
Speaker 1: Or Ben Still or how about uh Ram Emmanuel and
Speaker 1: Larry David. That was a good pairing right there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they'd ever met before, but man, they're
Speaker 1: other and so I really full disclosure, I'm just not
Speaker 1: an NBA fan at this point in my life, and
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the game, but I was caught. I
Speaker 1: was intrigued by the fact that what is her name?
Speaker 1: The actress she was on one of the police procedures
Speaker 1: for years market hagetary or what do you know the
Speaker 1: woman I'm talking about, Michael right, what the hell's her name?
Speaker 1: Is it Marisia? Or no, no, no, I know who
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Assume it's to celebrity. It's a woman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well I just said she was on a police procedural
Speaker 1: that was a super big hit for a long time.
Speaker 1: Market anyway, she was in the front row, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: really really, yeah, she's starring in a new show I
Speaker 1: think on Broadway. It's her rival or something. Riska that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mriska hargitay. Uh, that's a billboard. They bought a billboard
Speaker 1: for the show. Oh, they're at Courtside. That's a good airsporis.
Speaker 1: Argidage's starring in the new revival of whatever the hell.
Speaker 1: It's like buying an ad brigadoon. Yeah. Mostly it's super
Speaker 1: rich people. So I'm assuming that Tracy Morgan who won
Speaker 1: ninety million dollars because that Walmart truck hit him and
Speaker 1: almost killed him. So he's among the super rich, and
Speaker 1: he's at all the Knicks games. He was sitting in
Speaker 1: the front row with Tina Feye next to him. I
Speaker 1: wonder if he went ahead and comm you know, said out,
Speaker 1: you come to the game with me. They started together
Speaker 1: back on thirty Rock together, worked exactly in that live
Speaker 1: truly funny show The Rama Manual Larry David Robert Kraft.
Speaker 1: Three people in a row, like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're friends or if they'd met for the first time
Speaker 1: there at the gar Oh hey, you know, i'd be
Speaker 1: just kind of a weird oh hey moment, just like
Speaker 1: somebody you've seen on to Oh hey, you're the guy
Speaker 1: that owns the Patriots. Oh you're the guy that might
Speaker 1: be the next president, Nia shak hands. I would wait
Speaker 1: three hours in line to overhear their conversation. No kidding,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting grouping all the way around. It was
Speaker 1: that way everywhere. Man. The coolest one though, was I'd
Speaker 1: become I'm kind of a Jalen Brunson fanboy, even though
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the Spurs. Got into him last year.
Speaker 1: He is some super stud performer. But anyway, he had
Speaker 1: some amazing clutch plays last night with the crowd going
Speaker 1: crazy and everything like that. And they go over to
Speaker 1: also in the front row, Derek Jeter sitting with Eli
Speaker 1: Manning high fiving. I thought, there is some guys that
Speaker 1: understand what it's like to be in front of that
Speaker 1: crowd and perform. Well, right, pressure, that was a cool
Speaker 1: group right there. Coming up, your birth order affects your future,
Speaker 1: but not for the reason you think, Jack, How do
Speaker 1: I always respond to a headline like that? How do
Speaker 1: you know what I think? But really interesting science about
Speaker 1: birth order? Holy cat? You think? Okay, well I'll have
Speaker 1: to hear this. Oh are you a scientist? Are you
Speaker 1: answered the question? He's not answering, folks, I could be
Speaker 1: in Congress and do one of those hearings. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: exactly answer the question. I'm trying to you a question.
Speaker 1: Every time I start dance, I reclaim my time, yes,
Speaker 1: and then you yell I reclaimed my time, and nobody
Speaker 1: knows what that means, so you stop talking. No way
Speaker 1: to run a republic, folks. I had one other thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to tease before we got going. Oh Apple,
Speaker 1: The Apple Update seria is completely different.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I haven't tried it yet, but the new AI series.
Speaker 1: Some people are saying it's really fantastic. But more important
Speaker 1: than that, they announced a whole bunch of new parental
Speaker 1: controls that I'm super into as a guy who's got
Speaker 1: a couple of teen boys with iPhones that will We'll
Speaker 1: update you on that whole thing too. And we got
Speaker 1: to get into the Iran war at some point. Trump
Speaker 1: making some pretty big claims today that it could be
Speaker 1: over in a matter of days. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: heard this a few times, not exactly sure what he's
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish with those promises at this point and
Speaker 1: who he's putting pressure on host again, Echoes of the
Speaker 1: Ukraine Russia thing? Who's the roadblock to an agreement? Here? Again?
Speaker 1: Donald J? Is it really is? Is it really is real?
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it, all right. We got a lot
Speaker 1: on the way. Stay here. Trump in New York City
Speaker 1: Mayor Zorin Mamdani was also at the game. The guy
Speaker 1: in charge of the kiss cam was like, should I
Speaker 1: could be fun.
Speaker 4: Out of it?
Speaker 1: I didn't get that joke, right, We didn't get it either, Michael, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the joke there? Michael? Oh, you're running
Speaker 1: kiss cam?
Speaker 5: You're supposed to you put the kiss cam on Mandami
Speaker 5: and who he's supposed to kiss?
Speaker 1: The person next him or whatever? Man, I still don't
Speaker 1: understand that. What It doesn't matter. But the communist came
Speaker 1: on him. Mndami spend one thousand dollars for standing room
Speaker 1: only tickets to try to be a regular working class guy.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess all right, Jack, you are the
Speaker 1: oldest sibling in your family, correct. I am I am
Speaker 1: a three, I am a middle child, the middle of three.
Speaker 1: And I must say I've never put much stock in
Speaker 1: birth order. No, no, I you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to jump to the conclusion, but well, I'll hold up
Speaker 1: so really interesting coverage in the Washington Post of some
Speaker 1: new science about birth order. They mentioned that younger siblings
Speaker 1: enjoy real advantages in life. Generally, the parents have more money,
Speaker 1: more experiences. Parents. Older siblings can serve as role models, mentors,
Speaker 1: productive rivals. You know, you play basketball against your older brother,
Speaker 1: you're going to become a better basketball player. The ranks
Speaker 1: of elite athletes are filled with many more younger siblings
Speaker 1: than older brothers and sisters. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons why second born should do better, said this one
Speaker 1: economics professor Brigham Young, but being born first is a
Speaker 1: far better bet in life. The data shows. A landmark
Speaker 1: study shows that younger siblings fare worse than first borns
Speaker 1: on lifetime earnings, educational achievement, mental health, and for women
Speaker 1: teen pregnancy. The later the birth order, the worst the
Speaker 1: stats get. The youngest siblings get measurably less schooling than
Speaker 1: the firstborn on average, but that only explained half of
Speaker 1: the difference. The other half seems to be germs. They
Speaker 1: followed one point two million Danish children born since nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty into adulthood. The study found that the tiniest organisms
Speaker 1: have a profound impact on a child's future. Exposure to
Speaker 1: respiratory viruses before a baby's first birthday, when their immune
Speaker 1: systems are immature, and before most childhood vaccinations consistently predicted
Speaker 1: reduced earnings, education, and health decades later. Whoa illness, serious
Speaker 1: respiratory illness, and you're more likely to get them if
Speaker 1: you're the third child, or not just not the first,
Speaker 1: because the first one is off at school or daycare whatever.
Speaker 1: Bringing bugs home that doesn't happen to the firstborn kid. Wow,
Speaker 1: this is going to come up with Thanksgiving. My younger brother,
Speaker 1: thanks for bringing all those germs home. Yeah, way to go,
Speaker 1: jermy boy.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I could get into the details of this, but they
Speaker 1: said that data was absolutely clear. Earnings, education, mental health
Speaker 1: outcomes all declined as community disease exposure rose. Now, these
Speaker 1: are averages across populations. So the adult incomes fell by
Speaker 1: nearly one percent, high school and college graduation dropped by
Speaker 1: about half a percent. Psychiatric clinic visits arise by about
Speaker 1: six percent above the baseline rate. Blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: they say those numbers might appear trivial, but their averages
Speaker 1: across the entire population. Blah, blah blah. So this is
Speaker 1: interesting from a scientific perspective, but a couple of caveats.
Speaker 1: Number one, you know, try to keep your kid reasonably healthy,
Speaker 1: do what you want, but to get the vaccinations against
Speaker 1: scary stuff. They've performed miracles, saved kids' lives. Second thing is,
Speaker 1: and this is the part I didn't want to get
Speaker 1: to prematurely. You get dealt the cards, you get dealt.
Speaker 1: We've lost that bad rock belief as human beings because
Speaker 1: a grievance culture and the narcissism of small distinctions. Nobody
Speaker 1: cares that you got, you know, eighty eight percent of
Speaker 1: the good luck when somebody else got ninety one percent.
Speaker 1: It's what you do with it that matters. In the
Speaker 1: game and play, that's the only thing that matters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole one thing I had never for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: had never really occurred to me to the other day
Speaker 1: till somebody brought it up is if you're the oldest,
Speaker 1: you grew up in the household of the full number
Speaker 1: of your family for your whole life till you left.
Speaker 1: Where's the youngest In some cases, depending on how spread
Speaker 1: out they are, was an only child through high school
Speaker 1: or or longer. Like my younger brother, which would have
Speaker 1: been a completely different sitting down to the family table
Speaker 1: with nobody else there than when I was in high
Speaker 1: school and it was five of us. I had never
Speaker 1: really thought about that before, right, yeah, yeah, Oh, there
Speaker 1: was one more thing that I just thought was interesting
Speaker 1: because since Judy got pregnant with Kate many years ago,
Speaker 1: I've been fascinated by prenatal development, specifically neural development. Serious
Speaker 1: illness is in early childhood can derail grain bait. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's derailed mind, can derail brain growth and cast a
Speaker 1: long shadow on later life. In the first months of life,
Speaker 1: roughly eighty five percent of an infant's calorie intake goes
Speaker 1: toward neural development. Isn't that amazing? So speed your child
Speaker 1: as your recommendation that absolute, as non negotiable. A serious
Speaker 1: infection can reduce how much baby eats and divert calories
Speaker 1: away from building a brain. The thing you know the most,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this and less lay and everybody knows, well,
Speaker 1: everybody who's a parent knows this. You don't know this
Speaker 1: till your parent completely is how different they are. They're
Speaker 1: so incredibly different, They have such a different tool set
Speaker 1: to go out into the world with some of it
Speaker 1: you know, better than their siblings, some of it worse,
Speaker 1: and you go out there with what you got and
Speaker 1: you know, make your way. But it just that's that's
Speaker 1: what the blows your mind. And that's why you can't
Speaker 1: react to studies like this with a wait a minute,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, my little brother's a genius and highly
Speaker 1: successful and blah blah blah. Yeah, it's these are averages
Speaker 1: across populations. Your family could be completely the opposite of
Speaker 1: everything that is indicated by the averages. So we did
Speaker 1: have a helicopter crash near the Strait of or Moves.
Speaker 1: The pilots are fine, thank goodness. But the fact that
Speaker 1: we're this far into the war and haven't lost more
Speaker 1: guys or women is partially miraculous, and partially to the
Speaker 1: fact that we stopped the war fairly quickly and haven't
Speaker 1: really engaged since for better or worse, and I'm leaning
Speaker 1: toward worse. We got more on that coming up a
Speaker 1: little a little later with some of the quotes that
Speaker 1: Trump has put out today on this thing is going
Speaker 1: to wrap up soon, which he has been saying now
Speaker 1: for quite a while. Oh a little later on the hour,
Speaker 1: I'd like to get to a really good analysis of
Speaker 1: is California's election rigged? The answer is there's no proof
Speaker 1: that it is, but boy, they leave open a lot
Speaker 1: of area of doubt. I'm a pretty hard no on
Speaker 1: is it rigged? But yeah, it certainly doesn't. You don't
Speaker 1: do yourself any favors by dragging it out over a
Speaker 1: month like we got. There's a I mentioned this last week.
Speaker 1: There's a close vote on a measure in the burg
Speaker 1: that I live in. There is it's a billion dollars
Speaker 1: at stake, and they're still counting the votes and it's
Speaker 1: like four hundred votes apart on whether or not a
Speaker 1: billion dollars get spent or not on this big housing development.
Speaker 1: How could you possibly expect that there isn't somebody somewhere
Speaker 1: who's trying to influence that when you got that much
Speaker 1: money on the line, that's defying human nature. I'm a
Speaker 1: little surprised to hear you say hard no. I'm agnostic
Speaker 1: on the question because I don't think it's knowable. I've
Speaker 1: designed a stadium where we don't check the tickets, and
Speaker 1: then you ask me how many people snuck in without tickets.
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's no mechanism. There's not an adequate
Speaker 1: mechanism to check it. Yeah, I just I'm not concerned
Speaker 1: that our guy Spencer Pratt got screwed by cheating on
Speaker 1: the voting. I think it's just LA is eighty four
Speaker 1: percent of votes Democrat. This is the result you should get. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is definitely part of the reality, which is damn
Speaker 1: mad I'm not claiming it's not maddening. How bad would
Speaker 1: it have to get before you'd want to try something different?
Speaker 1: That's what's amazing, just for a few years, right, Wow,
Speaker 1: all right, if you miss a segment of the podcast
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Where in the final throes of what will be a
Speaker 6: very very good deal that will not allow in any way,
Speaker 6: shape or form, nuclear weapons, etc. And then this straight
Speaker 6: will open up right away. It'll open up immediately upon signing,
Speaker 6: which could be in two or three days.
Speaker 1: Well, I want that to be true. There is zero
Speaker 1: I'm not the mainstream media who is Trump said without
Speaker 1: evidence regularly on stuff all time. But I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it here. Trump said without any evidence that I can
Speaker 1: see anywhere, and I mean anywhere that this is going
Speaker 1: to be over a couple of days. They're not going
Speaker 1: to get a nuke in the street, will be open.
Speaker 1: Have you come across any evidence of that being true
Speaker 1: in any journalism anywhere. I haven't, no other than the
Speaker 1: occasional comment by like an Ian Bremer on Twitter or
Speaker 1: something that he's hearing dot but I've heard that multiple
Speaker 1: times now. I hardly even pay attention to that sort
Speaker 1: of pronouncement by Trump at this point. But like in
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, because this is a new
Speaker 1: thing from Trump that it's very very close in just
Speaker 1: a couple of days now, I haven't seen that reported
Speaker 1: by anybody, like any opinion piece, even right right. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this earlier, and this thought occurred to
Speaker 1: me with greater clarity than it has before. Iran is
Speaker 1: absolutely hell bent and obsessed with killing all the Jews
Speaker 1: and wiping Israel off of the map. So you can
Speaker 1: either give them that in negotiations or any other agreement
Speaker 1: they come to is just a head fake, because they
Speaker 1: will continue doing their most sacred duty is that they
Speaker 1: see it. Yeah, I hope Trump is right about that.
Speaker 1: By the way, He's got some behind the scenes him
Speaker 1: and Jared Kushner and whoever working in Marco Rubio, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna announce something. I hope that's what happens, and
Speaker 1: I'll be very happy about that. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen an opinion piece where they say
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, let alone any factual reporting about it.
Speaker 1: But I had one other thing. Maybe I'll think of it. Well,
Speaker 1: Tree Yankst of Fox. Lets us know where we are now.
Speaker 7: After President Trump called on Israel and Iran to stop shooting,
Speaker 7: both sides agreed. Since then, Israel has continued to operate
Speaker 7: against Iran back Hesbelah in Lebanon, launching new strikes overnight
Speaker 7: and issuing fresh evacuation orders this morning. Prime Minister Benjamint
Speaker 7: Yahu addressed his country overnight with a message about Hesbola
Speaker 7: by Mama.
Speaker 5: In the past twenty four hours, Iron and Hesbela tried
Speaker 5: to impose a new equation on us. This equation is
Speaker 5: intolerable and unacceptable to me. They thought they could fire
Speaker 5: from Lebanese and Iranian territory at Israel and that we
Speaker 5: would not act. That did not happen, and that will
Speaker 5: not happen.
Speaker 1: If I'm BB Netan Yahoo, and I'm his age and
Speaker 1: his point in everything in life. I just finish off
Speaker 1: hesbelow once and for all.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: The world be damned with their opinion, right, I would agree.
Speaker 1: We can get more into that situation if you want.
Speaker 1: The absolutely unholy situation in Lebanon. As I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: the Lebanese Army is the third most powerful force in
Speaker 1: that country after the Israelis and Hesbela. It's a shell
Speaker 1: of a country. It's always on the brink of civil war.
Speaker 1: Sectarian religious violence is just a way of life there
Speaker 1: since you know, ages ago, the eighties, I guess as
Speaker 1: to the Strait of Horror Moves, which is why your
Speaker 1: gas is so expensive. The reporter goes on with.
Speaker 7: Questions about if the seasfire could be broken again. International
Speaker 7: attention remains on the Strait of Horne Moves, where the
Speaker 7: US naval blockade if Iranian ports.
Speaker 1: Is expected to continue.
Speaker 7: Sentcom says US forces disabled an unladened oil tanker in
Speaker 7: the Gulf of Oman on Monday after it tried to
Speaker 7: breach the blockade, and FA eighteen super Hornet from the
Speaker 7: USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into the ship's
Speaker 7: engineering and steering rooms. Now, since the blockade went into effect,
Speaker 7: one hundred and thirty four vessels have been turned around,
Speaker 7: with seven disabled.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound a lot like progress. The headline one
Speaker 1: of the opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal today,
Speaker 1: Israel fights while Trump talks. The US demands more restraint
Speaker 1: from An ally than it does from Iran. More talk
Speaker 1: about Israel needs to stop attacking than Iran needs to
Speaker 1: stop attacking. Yeah, let me quote frequent correspondent JT who
Speaker 1: dropped us a note. Trump keeps attacking the good side
Speaker 1: quote unquote, in his belief that doing so will a
Speaker 1: facilitated deal. The case of Russia, Trump kept accusing Zelensky
Speaker 1: of being the stumbling block to the deal. You don't
Speaker 1: have any cards. Do you even own a suit? While
Speaker 1: echoing Putin's talking points. Trump is now attacking Nettnyal who
Speaker 1: accusing him of scuttling a deal with Iran because of
Speaker 1: Israel's attacks on Hesbla, and Trump is echoing Iran's talking
Speaker 1: points in the Iran deal is linked to Israel not
Speaker 1: attacking Hesbelah. Trump seems oblivious to the psychopathy of Putin
Speaker 1: and Putin's willingness to absorb massive losses. Likewise, Trump seems
Speaker 1: oblivious to the nature of the death cult, of Iran's
Speaker 1: particular form of Islamism, and the willingness of Iran to
Speaker 1: absorb endless pain on the part of the civilian Iranian population.
Speaker 1: I agree latly, we all have blind spots because of
Speaker 1: our life history, and I find that so interesting. And
Speaker 1: Trump seems to be because his whole life he's dealt
Speaker 1: with people where the goal was making the most money,
Speaker 1: whether it was you know, a guy who owned land
Speaker 1: or a hotel or a mobster or whoever it was.
Speaker 1: I need to make a certain amount of money, then
Speaker 1: we make a deal. And because that's been everything is
Speaker 1: entire life, he assumes that's still true with like Putin
Speaker 1: and Mulla's and can't wrap his head around the fact
Speaker 1: that for some people that's not the end all be
Speaker 1: all of their goals. Some people want dead Jews, some
Speaker 1: people want to go down in history is Peter the
Speaker 1: Great more than they want to, you know, come out
Speaker 1: financially ahead, or save lives or help their people have happier,
Speaker 1: productive lives. You Yeah, there is a real belief that
Speaker 1: Iran's latest moves, the ramped up attacks by Hezbollah and
Speaker 1: lobbing missiles at Israel at Kuwait, which we haven't even
Speaker 1: talked about. They've launched a bunch of attacks in the region.
Speaker 1: They've told the hu Thies, hey, go ahead and jump ugly.
Speaker 1: A lot of folks are saying Iran is thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: now's the time we're on the front foot. Let's assert
Speaker 1: our power more in the region. Let's collect more power
Speaker 1: to ourselves, you know. And you can throw Trump's name
Speaker 1: in it or leave it out. But obviously Nettan Yahu
Speaker 1: and Israel are saying, that's the last thing that's going
Speaker 1: to happen here, the last thing on earth. Before we
Speaker 1: move on to a different topic, would you like to
Speaker 1: make any sort of prediction of where you think this
Speaker 1: is going. I don't have any idea, uh, and what
Speaker 1: length of time where we talked about like the near term,
Speaker 1: this week or ultimately ultimately not ultimately, like a thousand
Speaker 1: years from now. But oh, I was gonna go with
Speaker 1: the thousand fi year. Yes, our robot orphan lord's harvesting
Speaker 1: our organs. Of course, that's everything. A thousand years from now,
Speaker 1: a I will open the street and build a data center. Gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to let my wishes be the father
Speaker 1: of my thoughts. I would think that the duplicity and
Speaker 1: unwillingness to reach a deal that anybody could accept by
Speaker 1: Tehran is finally going to piss off Trump and maybe
Speaker 1: he'll do what needs to be done. I don't just
Speaker 1: at least free Israel to do what needs to be done.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm very, very discouraged by the shape of
Speaker 1: this now for a couple of months, right, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's just the same old We're working on a deal.
Speaker 1: It's close, very close. Hey, bbe stop bombing the below
Speaker 1: when they lob missiles at your people in your very capital,
Speaker 1: stop stop stop, because we're almost at a deal. Please,
Speaker 1: Hu either got to be willing to finish it hard,
Speaker 1: do the ugly thing, or it ain't gonna work out positive.
Speaker 1: I don't think an order without a sanction is merely
Speaker 1: a suggestion. Briefly, since I mentioned AI and data centers,
Speaker 1: did you see that stuff Elon said yesterday about building
Speaker 1: the power plants and everything on the moon. I did
Speaker 1: not know he thinks on a plane that just the
Speaker 1: rest of us aren't thinking about at all. It was
Speaker 1: a interview with somebody, and I didn't understand most of it,
Speaker 1: but the main gist was planet Earth can produce a
Speaker 1: maximum amount of power that he has figured out because
Speaker 1: of various constraints of gravity, economics, climates, all kinds of
Speaker 1: different things. And he had the number like in one
Speaker 1: terra trillion watts of power to run all these data
Speaker 1: centers because AI uses up so much energy, and the
Speaker 1: ability to do it on the Moon is something like
Speaker 1: a thousand times greater than anything Earth could ever produce.
Speaker 1: And that's why he's working on right now getting to
Speaker 1: the Moon in fairly short time and in space and
Speaker 1: building these power plants that will be data centers for
Speaker 1: a I know, and then and that's how we're going
Speaker 1: to get to Mars and blah blah blah exponentially faster.
Speaker 1: But just who's thinking about that? That he can only
Speaker 1: produce so much power on Earth and we're gonna produce
Speaker 1: it on the Moon so that we can take the
Speaker 1: next step of Yeah, whether for good or ill, he
Speaker 1: is a visionary. Absolutely, I can't even I'm a guy
Speaker 1: who couldn't help my sun craft a decent Pinewood Derby car.
Speaker 1: So the technology necessary to accomplish all of that to
Speaker 1: say it boggles my mind. As an understatement, it's like
Speaker 1: calculus to a golden retriever. But it's it's amazing or
Speaker 1: and just his goals though, who's thinking about these things?
Speaker 1: He could easily end up being the most important person
Speaker 1: unless you're religious, and you're gonna go with Jesus the
Speaker 1: most important person that's ever lived. If he makes us
Speaker 1: a multi planetary species, which is his coal, certainly be
Speaker 1: up there. Yeah, you need a gold statue of him somewhere.
Speaker 1: Can we return to the Middle East just for a
Speaker 1: moment if you want to? And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: mind that transition because, like I always say, when we
Speaker 1: start talking about AI this or that or the pecuring
Speaker 1: these disease or whatever, Meanwhile over here you got people
Speaker 1: who are willing to cut your head off because of
Speaker 1: a religion. So that ain't changed. Yeah, Rather than rushing
Speaker 1: through this, why don't we put it off for a
Speaker 1: segment or two. But you hear about Lebanon and Hezbalon
Speaker 1: a lot in relation to the discussion we've just been having.
Speaker 1: I want to dig into that situation a little more
Speaker 1: so folks understand it. I have got such a great
Speaker 1: tease here, gallup is out with their latest and I
Speaker 1: didn't even know they did this every year Americans' views
Speaker 1: of morally acceptable behaviors. They have twenty behaviors that human
Speaker 1: beings engage in, and whether or not we think they're
Speaker 1: moral or not, and then the shifting numbers for some
Speaker 1: of them over the years. Yeah, I've talked about a
Speaker 1: subset of those results earlier, but yeah, I'd like to
Speaker 1: hear the broad array. We're not as open minded about
Speaker 1: trans stuff as we were five years ago. Far from it.
Speaker 1: Tell you that, among other things, we'll get to stay
Speaker 1: right here. Please.
Speaker 7: This year, we're taking a big step expanding our child
Speaker 7: safety features.
Speaker 3: Apple is rolling out a major software update with new
Speaker 3: parental controls.
Speaker 1: We're giving parents powerful, easy to use tools to help
Speaker 1: manage what kids can see, who they can talk to,
Speaker 1: and when they have access. Oh boy, man, if you
Speaker 1: got kids and they got smartphones, especially if they're teenagers,
Speaker 1: you only think about this every day because they walk
Speaker 1: around with the worst neighborhood on planet Earth in their
Speaker 1: hand in a way that was never possible before, and
Speaker 1: are remarkably clever at getting around any senses that are
Speaker 1: put up. When I was in high school living in
Speaker 1: gladess living in small town western Kansas. I mean there
Speaker 1: were there there were people around that did bad things,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there were people that around that did
Speaker 1: like pretty pretty bad things. But my dad had a
Speaker 1: pretty good idea of who I was going to be
Speaker 1: in communication with on a daily basis. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: would have been hard for me to run into a
Speaker 1: lot of those people as a fifteen year old, whereas
Speaker 1: now my sixteen year old could be talking to a
Speaker 1: guy who will sell them a machine gun and Heroin
Speaker 1: today easily, or groom them for god knows what. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well the scumbags and perverts have gotten systematic with it.
Speaker 1: They know how to troll, how to you know, sort
Speaker 1: through many many young people online and find would be
Speaker 1: victims in a way that it was impossible in like
Speaker 1: personal interchange for all of human history. Let's go on
Speaker 1: with this report from CBS News about Apple's new software.
Speaker 3: At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple said it's expanding child
Speaker 3: accounts required for kids under thirteen, limiting adult websites, and
Speaker 3: setting age specific restrictions any app store apples, as parents
Speaker 3: will be able to decide who kids can talk to
Speaker 3: in I message and FaceTime, limit how much time can
Speaker 3: be spent in specific apps, and extend.
Speaker 1: Or pause device use entirely. That's the one that I
Speaker 1: do because that's the one where I'm pretty sure. I
Speaker 1: know they shut off completely at a certain time, and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty positive at that point I got control of you.
Speaker 1: But any of the other hours where you're on your phone,
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of that other stuff is work.
Speaker 1: I'm practically to the point of why do I even try,
Speaker 1: based on things I've learned in the last six months
Speaker 1: from my son and other parents of there's just so
Speaker 1: many ways around all these things, and whichever one you
Speaker 1: find out about, there's probably one hundred more. Right, whether
Speaker 1: it's proxy websites or VPNs or whatever. They can ask
Speaker 1: who they are the kids. Yeah, here's a little more
Speaker 1: from that report.
Speaker 3: This comes as new research out today suggest that by
Speaker 3: age thirteen, teens may be more emotionally ready to receive
Speaker 3: their first smartphone without it automatically harming their mental health.
Speaker 1: I think it's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3: Thorn Klosowski is a privacy expert at the nonprofit Electronic
Speaker 3: Frontier Foundation. Kids are known to get around parental controls.
Speaker 1: Are these foolproof. No, they never are.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of why the conversation is really an
Speaker 4: important part here. Parents need to know that these tools exist,
Speaker 4: they need to know how to use them, and they
Speaker 4: need to know the kind of barriers that exist around them.
Speaker 4: There's not like a really like silver bullet here that's
Speaker 4: going to like magically fix this problem for everyone. I
Speaker 4: think it's going to have to be a kind of
Speaker 4: discussion that parents have with their kids, with the device makers,
Speaker 4: ensuring that this, like Foster's a place where kids can
Speaker 4: still be kids.
Speaker 1: At thirteen, you're emotionally ready for a smartphone. You're not
Speaker 1: emotionally ready for a smartphone when you're fifty. By the
Speaker 1: way it alters your life, Why do they do these studies?
Speaker 1: Ask anybody who use a phone right? Studies have found
Speaker 1: they're a distraction in the classroom. Studies have found why anybody?
Speaker 1: Why is anybody spending any money doing these studies? We
Speaker 1: all know this, Michael. More importantly, that expert's name was Thorn.
Speaker 1: If my name was Thorn, do you think I could
Speaker 1: get away with going as Thor? Ask? Can people call
Speaker 1: me Thor? Yeah? That'd be good, because that's what I
Speaker 1: would do. That's my plan? Do you and I carry
Speaker 1: a hammer?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, do you want every single person
Speaker 1: to constantly say where's your hammer? And deal with that
Speaker 1: the rest of your life? I don't. Well, you're right
Speaker 1: the downside. I hadn't thought the downside of being named
Speaker 1: thor glad I brought it? Okay? One more clip from
Speaker 1: this report can new parental.
Speaker 3: Controls will roll out in September. This as Apple also
Speaker 3: unveils Serie AI, a long awaited update to that conversational
Speaker 3: back and forth with a personal assistant that they have there.
Speaker 3: And after all of these announcements, just hours later, Rival
Speaker 3: Open AI declaring it plans to take that company public.
Speaker 1: And of course you could go on chat GPT and say,
Speaker 1: how do I get around the new Apple parenial controls
Speaker 1: as a thirteen year old? And it will tell you
Speaker 1: and then you'll do it. I mean, I'm I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I'm glad Apple's trying. I'm all for trying, sure,
Speaker 1: but I do feel like I just have to accept
Speaker 1: and hope by constantly telling my kids, you know, don't
Speaker 1: buy drugs from strangers, and don't do this, don't do
Speaker 1: that that it sinks in because I don't have any
Speaker 1: belief I can stop them from being in contact with
Speaker 1: this stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have to deal with
Speaker 1: this as a parent of kids, so it's it's tough
Speaker 1: for me to even talk about it. But to your point,
Speaker 1: you work constantly to install and instill the principles that
Speaker 1: will help them avoid the worst harms because this specific
Speaker 1: like you know, ability to look at porner or ugly
Speaker 1: porn or really too much porn at all is bad,
Speaker 1: but it's it's just so difficult to limit that. I'm
Speaker 1: to the point now where if we can sign an
Speaker 1: agreement that all you do is look at porn and
Speaker 1: nothing else, I'm in go ahead. It's gonna be bad
Speaker 1: for your life, and you know, everybody will get an direction,
Speaker 1: but that's better than a lot of the other stuff
Speaker 1: that's out there that you could get into. Wow, it's
Speaker 1: a hell of a deal. It is a hell of
Speaker 1: a deal. Apple from the Tree of Knowledge, folks, I
Speaker 1: stand by my my theory. Any comments text line four
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