WEBVTT - You Know What? That's Rude. 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.760 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty, I'm strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.240 and Jay and he I'm strong and Getty. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.840 We have fires almost almost three sixty around us here 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.400 are different properties just on fire for hours. These winds 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.919 definitely from when we first came here have picked up 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.960 a lot. It seems like this has been burning just 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.480 I think, I believe since last night. And so fire 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.919 writers trying to do their absolute best. But as far 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.040 as a reporter's perspective, out here, while we are safe 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.960 and we do have protective gear, it is very difficult, 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.240 very smoky out here, a lot of ash. You know, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.960 we have protective gear to cover our eyes and our mouth, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.120 but it is just impossible to be out here if 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:00.600 you do not have here. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:03.000 That makes it tough. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.640 Thirty thousand people evacuated their homes so far in the 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.720 LA area, starting yesterday morning and going all throughout the day, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.080 in the night and expecting the one hundred mile an 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.040 hour winds to continue. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:14.399 Throughout the day. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.520 It says there on Fox, as I look at the 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.240 TV screen with some giant mansion burning behind the guy, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.520 I mean an enormous house that looks to be burning 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:26.039 to the ground. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:27.880 That's quite a deal. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.000 Yeah, I don't know where Fox is getting that number. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:37.720 The winds are very high and there are some extraordinary gusts. Anyway, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.640 Joe downplaying the thread of the fire in La No. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.840 Just the idea that they're one hundred mile for hour 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.920 winds all day is just I don't think that's so. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:46.399 I don't know. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.640 I'm not there with a measuring thing, but I've heard 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.240 it on like four different outlets so far today because 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:51.680 I know it's. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.720 It's going to be very, very windy. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.200 Yes, So maybe you missed this during the two week break. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:57.920 This was. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.560 The moment that a whole bunch of MAGA people turned 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.680 on Elon, and from what I can tell from when 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:13.480 I dip into those circles, it has continued. And that's 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:19.760 an interesting thing, and it's all around the whole immigration thing. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.200 As you know, Elon himself is an immigrant, came to 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.400 this country as a rocket engineer, and he has talked 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.680 at length about this and many many interviews and how 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.880 he came here because it's a land opportunity where he could, 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.360 you know, start a business and do its thing in 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.600 a way he can't anywhere else in the in the world, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.240 and that's why the United States is the greatest country. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.880 Blah blah blah blah blah. And the guy that's working 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.240 with him on Doge, vivivive Aramaswami, has got a very 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:49.760 similar story. Also became a billionaire. And when Trump was 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.040 talking about deporting people in the immigration situation and everything, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.560 Elon was talking about how we need, you know, talent 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.400 here in the United States, so let's, you know, let's 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:59.960 come up with a way to make sure we have people. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.440 And then there was a big pushback from some of 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.799 the MAGA crowd because they want they don't they want 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.880 to really restrict immigration a lot. So Vivek puts out 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.760 this tweet, this really really long tweet that I won't 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.840 read all of and then we'll discuss it a little bit. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.200 But it came out, I don't know, two weeks ago. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.960 The reason top tech companies often hire foreign born and 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:24.440 first generation engineers over native Americans isn't because of an 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.799 eight American IQ deficit, a lazy and wrong explanation. A 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.720 key part of it comes down to the C word culture. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.880 Tough questions demand tough answers. And if we're really serious 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.440 about fixing the problem, we have to confront the truth. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.080 Our American culture, I like him calling it our Our 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:46.120 American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.000 at least since the nineties and likely longer. That doesn't 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.839 start in college, it starts young. I gotta say before 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.840 I get back to Viveks, we've been talking about this 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.400 for a long time. It bothers me a lot. I 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.640 think that's a huge problem we've got in the United States. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.480 Don't don't know how at least that part of it 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.360 is controversial at all. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.640 Right, and part of it's the whole equity crowd that 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.000 or disparate impact. If anybody does better than anyone else, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.880 that's absolute, irrefutable evidence that somebody cheated or wronged somebody, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.960 or there is racism afoot. And so that turned very 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.359 quickly into demonizing or being suspicious of any sort of 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.760 excellence or success, which is a terrible way to look 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:26.359 at life. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.400 Back to Vivek, A culture that celebrates the prom queen 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.360 over the math Olympiad champ, or the jock over the 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.960 valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates. Now, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.760 you're not going to get all these references. I only 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.320 get some of them. A culture that venerates Corey from 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.440 Boy Meets World, or Zach and Slater over Screech and 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.680 Saved by the Bell, or Stefan over Steve Erkele and 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.560 family matters will not produce the best engineers. Fact, I 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.400 know multiple sets of immigrant parents in the nineties who 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.480 actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.960 shows precisely because they promoted media I and their kids 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.839 went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates. Then he 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.840 mentions a couple more movies, TV shows and cartoons that 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.360 he doesn't think is good for our culture. We need 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.880 more weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons, more books, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.960 less TV, more creating, less chillin', more extracurriculars, less hanging 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.200 out at the mall. Most normal American parents look skeptically 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.680 at those kind of parents. More normal Americans could view 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.320 those kind of kids with scorn. If you grow up 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.839 aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve. Now 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.000 close your eyes and visualize which families you knew in 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.080 the nineties or even now, who raise their kids according 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.240 to one model versus the other, be brutally honest. Normalcy 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.120 doesn't cut it in a hyper competitive global market for 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.039 technical talent, and if we pretend like it does, we'll 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.960 have our asses handed to us by China. This could 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.440 be our spotnik moment right for Vacan, then I will stop. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.839 We've awakened from our slumber before and we can do 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.960 it again. Trump's election hopefully marks the beginning of a 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.280 new golden era in America, but only if our culture 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.640 fully wakes up, a culture that once again prioritizes achievement 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.520 over normalcy, excellence over mediocrity, nerdness over conformity, hard work 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.840 over laziness. Tremendous amount of pushback to that, I mean, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.800 people went crazy interesting. I didn't really follow the pushback 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.680 over the criticizing of American culture that way. And then 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.240 it got into the H one B visas and all 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.000 that sort of stuff, and then you get down to 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.960 the nitty gritty where it's very, very complicated, and I 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.320 don't know much about it, but we have had many 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.320 people tell this over the years whenever this topic has 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.440 come up. Hey, businesses, hire these people from other countries, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.000 because there's all kinds of tax advantages to hire in 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.920 the foreigner over the American with the same qualifications, and 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.840 you can't get rid of them where they can't leave, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.159 so you have all kinds of leverage over them because 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:52.479 of the way the visa system works. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.560 And I remember it was about a decade ago there 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.040 was a big controversy over this in Silicon Valley and 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.440 we got the word directly from a bunch of people 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.640 who worked in that Look, these guys will work for 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.600 half what an American engineer will work for, and they 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.280 will live in a dorm with eight of their fellows 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.440 and sleep in a bunk bed and blah blah blah. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.240 That's whither so attractive. It's not that they're better or 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.600 work harder, it's that they're cheaper. Now, that was a 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.360 while ago. I haven't heard directly from anybody for some time. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.040 That is certainly a factor. Yeah, an EH one B thing. Yeah, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.320 and I just found this out yesterday. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:25.920 Part of the agreement with the H one B thing 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.640 as you stay with your employer for a certain amount 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.640 of time or something like that, so you're stuck there, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.280 so you know they don't have to give you raises 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.040 or whatever. Another advantage you can't quit. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.360 You can't. So that's a separate question from a separate question. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:40.080 Greater point. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.560 Yeah, so they all got tied together and just a 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.520 lot of people being butt hurt, I guess over American 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:46.720 culture being disparaged. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.320 It doesn't bother me. I think it's absolutely true. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.840 I worry about it with my own kids, and and 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.120 I know plenty of my kids have friends who are 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.320 growing up with parents from other countries, and they are 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.880 way more serious about edge than I am with my kids, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.200 and I am embarrassed by that. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.320 Yeah, you know, it's funny. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.880 I was thinking about this in a different context, specifically 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.600 the Mark Zuckerberg Facebook fact checker censorship thing, and how 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.119 everything's either got to be entirely good or entirely bad. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.080 I'm either for it or against it. In our politics 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.720 a lot too, there's very little recognition that everything is 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.680 a trade off. Everything in life practically and in this 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.600 deal in Vivex screed, there's a good deal of truth there, 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.720 a whole lot. Now, is that some sort of I 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.120 hate America and every kid should be a hard driving 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.520 tech student. Well, no, of course, not take it with 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.440 a grain of salt. Seek the truth that's in his statement, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.600 and the part you don't like you can toss, but 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.440 you don't have to hate him for saying it. I don't, Well, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.160 everybody's so mad all the time. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.560 I don't have any way of knowing how true that is. 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.320 I do know some people from Asian countries where it 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.320 is absolutely completely true. They've explained it to me on 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.319 how you are the rock star of the school, if 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.920 you're the math kid, the science kid, to whatever, you're 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.400 the coolest person in the school. We all know that's 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.280 not true in the United States for the most part, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.680 but I don't know is that true in Europe or 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.880 is that limited to like Vietnam and South Korea in 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.920 places like that. I don't have any idea of that. 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:27.280 I don't either. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.079 I'm thinking about Europe probably Europe has its own problems 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.040 culturally speaking, certainly don't want to imitate them. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.160 A high school in France. Are you better off being 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.640 the soccer star than the math nerd or like the 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:39.439 United States? 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.720 Or is it more like in. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.719 Other countries I was mentioned were it's an academic thing. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.640 I don't know the answer to these things. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:47.679 But. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.240 It is odd that that's what we have gravitated toward. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.160 And I wasn't familiar with some of those pop culture 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.880 references either. I didn't watch that stuff very much. I 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:02.240 was too busy studying my physics and computer sign learning 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.520 to code. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.240 But I tell you what does ring true, and it's 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.240 food for thought. At least. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.720 What rings true is the idea that in popular culture, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.920 the quick witted, wise acre guy and I do it 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.560 for a living. So believe me, I'm not denigrating communication 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:26.319 ability or certainly leadership ability, the ability to draw people 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:31.319 around you, the ability to charisma. In short, it's not worthless. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:37.040 But in popular culture that person is revered, and the 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.520 fairly shy may be socially not as capable technical wizard 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.000 is an object of mockery. I don't know how much 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.280 that means, but it does mean something. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.720 Yeah, it bothers me a lot. Like my son, my youngest, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.040 we play chess a lot. He's pretty good at chess, 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.320 and I've been really pushing him. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.720 It's actually not pronounced chess to Michael. There's no tea there, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.200 and I've been pushing him to try to like get 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:01.720 into chess. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.880 And I happen to live in a town where they're 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.720 like chess coaches and stuff like that. And he said, dead, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.800 every TV show you ever watch, every movie, the chess 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.880 kid is the nerd. I'm not gonna do that. And 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.520 I just I hate that that's the culture. I've been 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.160 trying to talk him out of that, but I just 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:18.680 I just hate that that's the case. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.560 Which brings us back to my grand unified theory of 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.880 the modern world, and that is that ninety nine percent 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:31.720 of everything we observed which formed our thoughts and beliefs 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.720 in all of human history up until like ten minutes ago, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.080 was direct personal experience, your eyes, your ears, your senses. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.280 And then once in a while you'd get a letter 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.040 from your aunt in New Jersey and that would be 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.880 the only significant input. Maybe maybe maybe you'd watch the 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.800 evening news and you'd flip through a newspaper, But the 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.120 vast majority of your experience was your personal experience. Now, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:01.040 the vast majority of it is virtual, it's elect And 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:06.679 so how I think about different sorts of people and 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.080 where they are in the pecking order is affected in 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.800 an outsized way, in an unhealthy way, through the very 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.920 stupid pop culture we're talking about, in a way that 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:21.119 it wasn't in you know, the twentieth century, even. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:22.280 All I know. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.200 Is this the idea of a meritocracy? I am one 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.320 hundred percent for I want the smartest, best people to 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.000 be on a different track. And who cares if that 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.240 makes your kid feel bad or my kid feel bad. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.280 My kids aren't going to be that at least so far. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.240 Take the best talent prize them from all countries and 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.439 in our country, anybody that wants to come here, that's 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.280 the best, smartest people, let them come. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.920 I can't imagine being against that. Yeah again, you get 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.839 back to the visa thing. It gets a little commentated. Yeah, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.839 but yeah, excellence. We've got to get back to saluting 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.520 and respecting excellence of this country or we will be doomed. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.360 We will become, as we've been saying for a very 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:07.720 long time, Europe. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:08.640 We don't want to be Europe. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.440 If anybody wants to weigh in on that with your experience, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.319 our text line four one five nine five KFTC. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.760 Well, guys, the country is still dealing with freezing temperatures 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.240 as millions of Americans are getting slammed by an. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:24.720 Arctic blast alcohol. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.280 It's so cold this morning, President Biden had chains put 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:29.120 on the tennis. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:34.160 Balls of his walker's should. Chain them up. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:39.439 Yeah, so I left something out of the big dust 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.839 up that happened over the last two weeks that most 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.440 of you probably didn't even know about, over immigration and 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.080 top talent from around the world coming here. And some 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.679 of you, I don't know if it's you, but some 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.559 people on the right seem to be anti anybody from 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.200 other countries coming here. And I definitely not with you 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.840 on that. I want the best talent from all countries 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:01.040 to come to the United States. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.040 That's the way we dominate. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.120 You gotta sign on to our beliefs though, Yes, and 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.720 you got to have a fair playing field for competing 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.240 for jobs. You can't have some sort of advantage over 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.480 You know, my kid who grows up wants to be 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.240 an engineer. But Elon a different attitude on the H 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.640 one B visa. This tweet is what turned a lot 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.280 of people on Elon a week or so ago. The 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.840 reason I'm in America along with so many critical people 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.400 who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.880 made America strong is because of the H one B. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.560 Take a big step end in all caps after yourself 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.360 in the face. I will go to war on this issue. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.720 The likes of which you cannot possibly compremend comprehend. And 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.160 he spelled out the word so it was spelled out 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.800 yourself in the face and all caps. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.840 Wow, that's you know what, that's rude. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.440 So a lot of people are a lot of the 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.280 maga wites split on that, and it was all f 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.000 you in the face, elon over this, no more, blah 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:58.880 blah blah blah blah. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:05.040 So it's it's that's some harsh rut rick. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.640 Right right, Yeah, online is just not where you go 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:16.680 for Well, that seems harsh and I don't understand his 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.600 point of view, but I have respect for him, so 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.000 I want to find out. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.720 What he means. I mean, that's just that practically doesn't 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.040 exist on Twitter. No, no, it does not. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:30.000 And all anger hitting back to the thought of you know, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.560 excellence and that sort of thing, and this, I guess 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.600 this has something to do with race, I suppose, but 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.000 not at its core. I came across these statistics medical 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.880 school acceptance race. These are your doctors who are going 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.600 to be trading you. Okay, trust me. When you get 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.600 a little gray in the the hair, it becomes a 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.400 bigger part of your life. But these are and I 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.040 won't tell you the actual MCAT scores. That's the grad 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:59.560 school score for getting into medicine. But in the below 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:04.480 average range, only six percent of Asian people and eight 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.960 percent of white people in that range get accepted six 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.680 percent and eight percent Black folks in that range, fifty 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:19.560 six percent get accepted. In the average category. If you're Asian, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.280 twenty one percent you get in, twenty nine percent of 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.240 white people, eighty one percent of Black people get in, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.440 and it actually continues in a lesser way in the 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:33.640 upper ranges. Of course, my problem with this always is 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.960 that this is a band aid on the terrible wound 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.600 of lack of black achievement in schools and the reasons 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.760 for it, and the idea that you attack it at 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:48.240 the level of medical school as opposed to in neighborhood schools, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.760 kids sociological problems which exist. You want to blame it 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.880 on racism or slavery, fine, let's talk about the sociological problems. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.920 The idea that you solve it at the end by 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.200 promoting people who are clearly not qualified is idiotic. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.240 Well, that's bad for society. And then just on the 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.359 level of we want the best people, we want the 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.560 best people. I don't care where they came from or 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.920 what color they are. It's crazy. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.160 Mark Zuckerberg censorship fact checkers. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.479 We will discuss next day, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.560 Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will no longer fact check 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.280 posts on Facebook and Instagram, and users will now have 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.480 to correct any false posts themselves. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.160 I'm a little concerned. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.360 I mean, this is like Chipotle announcing that it's ending 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:35.240 health inspections. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:35.919 You know what I'm saying. 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.240 If you're keeping tracks, fact checking is gone from Facebook 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.680 and Twitter right now. Wikipedia's like, how did we become 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:43.560 the responsible one? 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.679 I mean, yeah, Joe didn't. Don't like that joke? No, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.040 I didn't. Last part was all right, But yeah. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.760 Before we get back to the Facebook thing, one stat 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:56.880 we've left out of. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.920 The fires. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.760 In the LA area that are completely out of control, 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.160 and we personally know people who have had to flee 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.439 and their homes may have burned down already. All of 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.440 those fires are zero percent contained, zero percent. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:14.760 Yeah, and growing. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.960 Yeah, whipped by the winds at least through today and 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:23.080 probably endo tomorrow. It could be cataclysmic. Let's certainly hope 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.359 it's not. At least the lives are spared, If not, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.240 the structures. So, yeah, getting back to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.840 Maybe you heard the announcement yesterday. Probably we talked about 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.879 it a little bit. They are abandoning quote unquote professional 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.200 fact checking, which is a phrase so repugnant I can 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.960 barely get it to come out of the same mouth 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.840 I used to kiss my wife and going with community notes, 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.600 much like Twitter does. I refuse to say X, here's 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.600 Berzerkerberg yesterday clip ad Michael. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.000 We're going to get back to our roots and focus 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.680 on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring re expression 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.080 on our platforms. More specifically, we're going to get rid 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.480 of fact checkers and replace them with community notes, similar 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.240 to X starting in the US. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.160 So his new look is he wears a T shirt, 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.199 he's let his hair grow out, Yes, but he's wearing 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.080 a million dollar watch with his T shirt and his 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:21.560 long hair. Yeah. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.200 It was funny back when he was getting grilled by 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.640 the Democratic Congress and ordered to around by the White House, 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.480 which we'll get to in a minute, he was going 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:32.800 with a very close cropped suity look. But now that 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.399 the pro business Republicans are in charge and the pro 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.480 free speech types is like, all right, I'm gonna let 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:39.440 my freak flag fly. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:41.880 Interesting anyway, I don't want to spend too much time 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:42.160 on that. 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.600 Here's his spokesman, Joel Kaplan, who's talking a little more 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.600 about the policies than we'll discuss eighty two. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.200 Michael, there's a number of changes we're making. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.280 But if I could and just highlight three, yep. First is, 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.240 as you heard, we're eliminating the third party fact checking system. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.560 You know, Michael said too much of what we've already covered. Apologies, 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:01.520 let's go with eighty four. 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.919 So the second one is about the rules the governed 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:10.000 content on our platform. They've just become too restrictive over 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.800 time about what people can say, including about those kind 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.000 of sensitive topics that you mentioned that people want to 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:20.080 discuss and debate immigration, trans issues, gender. We want to 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.680 make it so that bottom line, if you can say 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.080 it on TV, you can say it on the Flora Congress, 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:26.960 you certainly ought to be able to say it on Facebook, 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.520 Instagram without fear of censorship. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:30.440 So we're changing those things. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.199 I would freaking say so, well, yeah, that is an 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:38.480 absolutely undeniably reasonable thing to say. Jack, would you like 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.320 to briefly characterize some of the mockery that's taking place 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.399