Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. Pentagon has announced we've
Speaker 1: had one hundred troops injured in the last two weeks
Speaker 1: since the fighting started again. These numbers are going to
Speaker 1: start to add up. To get people's attention, we got
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Speaker 1: bit later this hour. So this next clip. We played
Speaker 1: it yesterday and people loved it so much we thought
Speaker 1: we ought to play it every hour. You ought to
Speaker 1: hear it. This is This is definitely nut picking where
Speaker 1: you pick one cuckola and hold them up as an
Speaker 1: example of this is what they're all like. Ah, probably
Speaker 1: too many of them are like this. This is yeah.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't play this down.
Speaker 2: This definitely fits what we were talking about last week
Speaker 2: about the appeal of the DSA.
Speaker 1: This is a college kid trying to explain what socialism is.
Speaker 3: I know, I saw statistic amazing for you guys. More
Speaker 3: than half of young Americans now prefer socialism over capitalism.
Speaker 3: So if you can look into the camera and give
Speaker 3: a thirty second elevator pitch on why socialism is better
Speaker 3: than capitalism.
Speaker 4: Community, are you tired of sitting alone and being by
Speaker 4: yourself and having no one to talk to? VI a socialist.
Speaker 4: It's all about com me. It's about Terry sitting down
Speaker 4: and having coffee of random stranger and talking to them
Speaker 4: talking about the game. Hell I have hugged more strangers
Speaker 4: in this past summer because of the Knixt game, because
Speaker 4: of the World Cup. Because socialism works is the watch
Speaker 4: parties at a zorround hosts.
Speaker 1: It's about the parties that we allow.
Speaker 4: But you don't have cops hoogging every single site and saying, oh,
Speaker 4: you can't be here because there's too many people, instead
Speaker 4: of allowing people just being in their nature at natural
Speaker 4: element of talking each other, dude, bond over things we
Speaker 4: love and shared. So that scary word ain't me taking
Speaker 4: your house? Is about me making sure your house remains
Speaker 4: in your hands.
Speaker 1: Some million doesn't take it from you. That's it. Wo wow.
Speaker 1: Whoa And his vote counts the same as.
Speaker 2: Yours, which either motivates the hell out of you to
Speaker 2: get out and vote to cancel his.
Speaker 1: Or makes you stay at home shaking your head. All
Speaker 1: these years of talking about this sort of stuff and
Speaker 1: elections and everything like that, I still don't quite understand.
Speaker 1: And I've asked them before on the air, and they're
Speaker 1: never honest about it. Political professionals, how much of your
Speaker 1: job is appealing to the dumb people who have no
Speaker 1: idea what's going on on all these cable news shows
Speaker 1: and you know, articles in the New Yorker and think pieces.
Speaker 1: You're right for the whatever you act like it's about policy,
Speaker 1: Isn't it a fact that to get over the finish
Speaker 1: line you need a whole bunch of people like that
Speaker 1: guy or dumb people who are you know, on the
Speaker 1: other side of the political out You really have no
Speaker 1: idea what they're talking about. He just got them into
Speaker 1: your tent by the millions, and that what's won year election.
Speaker 1: And I've never gotten any political professional to ever admit
Speaker 1: that that's part of the job. It has to be
Speaker 1: part of the job.
Speaker 2: I know, we both like reading and talking to some
Speaker 2: of the real thinkers and politics. You're you're Jonah's Goldberg
Speaker 2: and your Tim's send a fur and all. But in
Speaker 2: terms of actual electoral politics, be better off watching Inside Baseball,
Speaker 2: or just about equal dancing with the start.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: It's about frightening and or enticing people who have no
Speaker 2: idea what's going on to come.
Speaker 1: To your troth. I mean that guy clearly doesn't have
Speaker 1: the slightest idea. I mean even the slightest idea. What
Speaker 1: socialism versus free market is a is a conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he he knows nothing about politics, although at the
Speaker 2: very end he finally got to it, like, you get
Speaker 2: to keep your home and a millionaire can't take it
Speaker 2: from you. So at least he heard something from somebody
Speaker 2: that's stuck in his head.
Speaker 1: But here's the part of that. They've never made more
Speaker 1: friends in aarium time in my life, all these watch
Speaker 1: parties with the Knicks. That's socialism.
Speaker 5: What you just said is one of the most insanely
Speaker 5: idiotic things I've ever heard. Everyone in this room is
Speaker 5: now dumber for having listened to it.
Speaker 1: That is true. May God have mercy on your soul.
Speaker 2: Also, that's one of my favorite lines for many movie ever.
Speaker 2: That was an Adam Sandler vehicle, wasn't it a water boy?
Speaker 1: Maybe? I think that's from Citizen Kane.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you know, politically speaking, obviously he's an idiot,
Speaker 2: but I think from a marketing point of view and
Speaker 2: of serving social interaction, not socialism, but anthropology whatever the
Speaker 2: modern world. I have now come into this narrative multiple times,
Speaker 2: including that great piece I shared from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: I think it was Friday.
Speaker 2: The DSA has realized young people are lonely, they are
Speaker 2: craving in person interaction.
Speaker 1: They're craving purpose. We're going to give it to them.
Speaker 2: So, as I was pointing out last week, they have
Speaker 2: game nights, they have fun runs, they have ice cream socials,
Speaker 2: they have a hundred excuses for young people to be
Speaker 2: in together in person, and oh, you know, it reminds me,
Speaker 2: honestly of some of the youth things I did through
Speaker 2: my church as a kid. A lot of it was
Speaker 2: social and then there was the Christian aspect of it
Speaker 2: that was part of it, but the draw for a
Speaker 2: lot of kids was absolutely the social aspect of it.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of things we did that had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with the New Testament.
Speaker 1: My old kids have both been to church camps that
Speaker 1: they went to because of the social stuff, right exactly.
Speaker 2: And that's what the DSAY is doing and they're doing
Speaker 2: it effectively, and why it's a good example that half
Speaker 2: wit was absolutely a half wit. I think we scoff
Speaker 2: at that strategy at our apparel to our peril around our.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah, we should not do that because they're onto
Speaker 1: something different. Thing I mentioned last hour, which I don't
Speaker 1: know much about. Maybe i'll look more into this. Uh,
Speaker 1: somebody who's writing about tech bros socialism, And I suppose
Speaker 1: that's the right term of for it, because your Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: you're Peter Thiel, You're Mark and Dreesen, your various people
Speaker 1: who are always talking about the future under AI are
Speaker 1: talking about a post work world with top down distribution
Speaker 1: and equity. How is that not socialism? I mean, that's
Speaker 1: clearly what it is. It's going to be some sort
Speaker 1: of tech socialism. Elon, who's clearly a free market guy,
Speaker 1: and you know he's trumpy and he's he's warning us
Speaker 1: about the Wolkes and socialists all the time. I think
Speaker 1: his argument would be, well, that's what we're going to
Speaker 1: have to do because there's going to be no jobs
Speaker 1: in AI is going to do everything. But there's still
Speaker 1: no way to describe that other than a government run economy, right,
Speaker 1: distribution of funds?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, And let's just all agree that the
Speaker 2: textbook definition of socialism is not what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: We're talking about widespread redistribution of wealth and in heavy
Speaker 2: government industrial partnerships to keep people from revolting. That's what
Speaker 2: they're talking about. And that's absolutely what they're talking about
Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't understand why they never have to
Speaker 1: answer for that. Who's going to collect all this money
Speaker 1: when A is this being so productive? Who's gonna decide
Speaker 1: who gets how much? How is that? What's the structure
Speaker 1: for that that will be any better than any other
Speaker 1: system that's tried this in the past.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's not like they're not admitting it. They're
Speaker 2: just not explaining how it will work structurally because I
Speaker 2: don't think it will.
Speaker 6: Well, that's been talk about the devils in the details.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, one dred percent the whole ballgame. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 6: here here more on that after word from our friends
Speaker 6: and in cogni. There are thousands of places on the
Speaker 6: Internet that have a file with your name on it,
Speaker 6: with your home address, your cell number, your email address,
Speaker 6: maybe even your medical conditions, your age, how you vote
Speaker 6: your kids' names, thousands of them. You do not have
Speaker 6: time to contact all of them and tell them, hey,
Speaker 6: get rid of my info, because that is your right.
Speaker 1: But in COOGNI has time. Got a perfect example. A
Speaker 1: friend of mine contacted me last night and said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I wonder you know about this sort of stuff more
Speaker 1: than I do. Just got contacted by an old friend
Speaker 1: from a job years ago I haven't talked to, who
Speaker 1: said they need money and if they could just venmo
Speaker 1: me seven and a half dollars, they'd vendo me the
Speaker 1: money back. And I said, that's absolutely a scam anytime
Speaker 1: they want those small amounts of money. How did somebody
Speaker 1: come up with an old college friend blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: That's the sort of stuff we're talking about within cogny.
Speaker 1: All that stuff is out there on data brokers, all
Speaker 1: this different information flying around, and the only way you
Speaker 1: can get it off is if you've got incogny going
Speaker 1: to the data brokers and legally forcing them to remove it.
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Speaker 1: That's one of the key tells, which I only know
Speaker 1: just because we've talked about it in the mornings. Is
Speaker 1: the whole small amount of money thing coming out of
Speaker 1: your account or it's a test, it's a low resistance.
Speaker 2: Is this the sort of person that it's worth pursuing
Speaker 2: this a scam on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Wow, it's frightening. The frightening part is that in
Speaker 1: this particular case, it was somebody they worked with years ago,
Speaker 1: but they had their phone number and sent you a
Speaker 1: text from their phone number like it was them saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: I've got a financial problem and I need some help. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got hit with the party invitation thing and
Speaker 2: got suckered not too terribly long ago.
Speaker 1: I undid it easily. That would be. That'd be that
Speaker 1: I'd fall for that absolutely. I wouldn't think twice. Oh
Speaker 1: that sucks, yeah, bastards.
Speaker 2: Well, and I have a friend who's getting married coming
Speaker 2: up in the fall, and his invitation it's all electronic,
Speaker 2: and the events, the schedule and just all the information
Speaker 2: you need is electronic like it is these days. But
Speaker 2: you need to sign on to the little invite site
Speaker 2: whatever it is to show that you're an actual guest.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. It is so similar to the scam.
Speaker 2: I was tired and distracted one day. I should have
Speaker 2: recognized the subtle difference.
Speaker 1: I didn't. But it's pretty good, it's pretty sophistic Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got hit with a text yesterday that I'm two
Speaker 1: months behind on my rent from the company that does
Speaker 1: the stuff with the house that I rent, and I
Speaker 1: know that I'm not. But it had the link to
Speaker 1: their portal, which I stupidly clicked on, but it looked
Speaker 1: like the real portal, and I think maybe it was,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I don't know if they got hacked.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm trying to straighten that out today. But
Speaker 1: I may have clicked on a bad link and like
Speaker 1: ruined my life. In fact, I might be completely broke
Speaker 1: as we speak. Oh yeah, and drained of my bodily fluids.
Speaker 1: In fact, my kids might not even be at my
Speaker 1: house right now. Who knows what's going on. Michael.
Speaker 2: If he hits you up, just say I don't carry cash.
Speaker 2: That usually makes them go away.
Speaker 1: That's actually true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, speaking of not having any cash back to
Speaker 2: the socialism theme.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about this a little bit more later.
Speaker 2: If you haven't heard the DSA's actual platform, I have
Speaker 2: it in front of me, and it's efing fruit loops.
Speaker 1: We touched on it some yesterday.
Speaker 2: And also absolutely true now that mainstream Democrats are recognizing,
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, this is not a mildly annoying
Speaker 2: part of our big tent party. These people are common
Speaker 2: for us, so that war will be interesting to witness. God,
Speaker 2: i'd say, from over here on the right side of
Speaker 2: the aisle, all as fascists gathered.
Speaker 1: Together plotting our fascist plots. Why are the sales for
Speaker 1: many alcohol bottles up when people are drinking less? A
Speaker 1: little bit of a suspicion about that story. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine, as a guy who knows a lot
Speaker 1: of alcoholics, what's going on there. It's gone there, among
Speaker 1: other things we got on the West, Stay tuned.
Speaker 7: Who's bigger isn't necessarily better? A number of alcohol companies
Speaker 7: have noticed sales of smaller bottles on the rides. That's
Speaker 7: filling a move for them to offer more many bottles.
Speaker 7: Experts say consumers appear more willing to buy alcohol when
Speaker 7: they don't have to drop as much money to do
Speaker 7: so makes sense. And sometimes, especially with wine Carolina, you
Speaker 7: just want the one serving.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So no, wrong, I don't I that might be.
Speaker 1: It's doesn't make much sense. Really, booze is too expensive,
Speaker 1: so you're buying the tiny little bottles. I assume you're
Speaker 1: drinking the same amount, so it's actually more expensive to
Speaker 1: do it that way. So that doesn't really make any sense.
Speaker 1: Way more. I was thinking it might be. I have
Speaker 1: no proof of this, whatsoever. Most secret alcoholics I've known,
Speaker 1: I've never I was never a booze guy. I'm a
Speaker 1: beer drink. I was a beer drinker. I was never
Speaker 1: boozed a guy. But most booze like alcoholics i've known,
Speaker 1: they're all about the little mini bottles in Casina. You
Speaker 1: buy them and you can like pour them into your
Speaker 1: coffee at work or watching your kid play Little League
Speaker 1: or whatever it is you're doing. And I just wondered
Speaker 1: if all this people are drinking less at bars and
Speaker 1: stuff like that thing people are, Yeah, I'm not drinking
Speaker 1: anymore Either're pouring your little tiny bottle into your thing
Speaker 1: at the little league game.
Speaker 2: You know, I as a man who just dropped a
Speaker 2: substantial amount of money at a liquor store yesterday. Whenever
Speaker 2: there are people in front of me in line who
Speaker 2: are buying a bunch of little bottles, they're not sophisticates.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Oh, and alcoholics are come from all wats of life, obviously, absolutely,
Speaker 2: but they definitely look like people who are trying to
Speaker 2: get away with with like day drinking all day day.
Speaker 1: Drinks bottles of alcohol. Well, here's I.
Speaker 2: Gotta do, like alcoholic hacks. That'll be my new my
Speaker 2: website that'll get lots of HiT's. Get the big bottle
Speaker 2: that costs the a lot less and get the little
Speaker 2: travel bottles at the drug store for like your shampoo
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's obvious. Of course, I haven't rotted my brain with you.
Speaker 1: Would you like me to explain it to you from
Speaker 1: an alcoholic standpoint? Yeah, in your own mind, you think
Speaker 1: you're just gonna have this one or two, or you're
Speaker 1: stopping today and you won't need them tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Or what.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's what happens. You have to see, I'm strictly
Speaker 1: so I'm off. You have to constantly lie to yourself
Speaker 1: about how much you're gonna drink otherwise. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you took it all in, it was I'm going to
Speaker 1: drink eight hundred beers this week, So the smart thing
Speaker 1: to do would be to buy them in bulk at costco.
Speaker 1: You know, you buy one six pack at a time,
Speaker 1: thinking that this is all I need. I need one,
Speaker 1: I need another one, I need one more six packs?
Speaker 1: You know, today I need to buy more six packs.
Speaker 1: That's that's the why that is interesting. I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about because, uh, well this is the fit in
Speaker 1: we're doing China Cabinet coming up later. Yeah, look inside
Speaker 1: the China cab I like you when you say that way.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm old, and you know I'm in the
Speaker 1: winter of my life and my time has passed. My
Speaker 1: generation's time is past. I hope the young people figure
Speaker 1: out what to do about this whole algorithm thing that
Speaker 1: we're all living under in terms of our news flow.
Speaker 1: I don't like my algorithms that I've got on my Twitter,
Speaker 1: that I've got on my YouTube. Can I get different ones?
Speaker 1: Can I can? Should I start multiple accounts so I
Speaker 1: can switch around with algorithms? And it just it locks
Speaker 1: you into an information flow and it's almost always unhealthy
Speaker 1: my Twitter feed is just depressing as s and I'm like, quit.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've noticed it affecting me. We've been on
Speaker 1: Twitter for many, many, many years. It's just recently that
Speaker 1: I started looking at the for you suggestion Twitter. I
Speaker 1: used to always go to sites, I never had them
Speaker 1: fed to me. I don't know why I started doing this,
Speaker 1: but now I look at the for you stuff and
Speaker 1: it figured out kind of what I'm interested in. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of a guy that likes, you know, the world's
Speaker 1: going to hell stuff, and so it just feeds me
Speaker 1: endless World's going to hell like it's the only news.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed that having an effect on my mood.
Speaker 1: And they don't call it joy scrolling, and I want to, Like,
Speaker 1: I wish I could go in there and say, hey,
Speaker 1: make the algorithm more optimistic. Send me good news, because
Speaker 1: I know there's plenty of it out there right right.
Speaker 2: Just saw a story in the New York Post the
Speaker 2: Treasury Department stopped one hundred million dollars from going out
Speaker 2: to dead people in social scaritay I think it was,
Speaker 2: I'll bring you the details later.
Speaker 1: I almost didn't click on.
Speaker 2: It because it was good news, because it was something positive.
Speaker 2: I thought, what the hell's the matter with you? But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's about the algorithms. Neil Ferguson. We referenced this yesterday.
Speaker 2: Co wrote a great article about how historians are now
Speaker 2: helpless against algorithms trying to straighten people out about the
Speaker 2: Holocaust or whatever. And I was reading about that. How
Speaker 2: young men they go down that road, that the Nazish road,
Speaker 2: and they just get flooded with the stuff. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that needs to hey, young people, fix the algorithm problem,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. So we played the clip earlier, we
Speaker 1: played it yesterday. We'll play it a lot. Some part
Speaker 1: of it will probably end up in the clips of
Speaker 1: the year. I would, oh, I love that the college
Speaker 1: kid explaining socialism and say socialism is great. I've never
Speaker 1: made more friends watching Knicks games together and watching the
Speaker 1: World Cup together. That's socialism. And somebody texted that idiot
Speaker 1: child doesn't know the difference between socialism and socializing exactly.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the scene in Spinal Tap when
Speaker 1: Bobby Feckman says the cover of Smell but Glove is
Speaker 1: sexist and Nigel Toughnell says, what's wrong with being sexy. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very much same. Yeah. No, socializing is awesome. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's a political movement called socialism that killed one hundred
Speaker 1: million people last century. It's got nothing to do with
Speaker 1: watching basketball games together. I thought it was game nights
Speaker 1: and fun runs.
Speaker 2: Oh no, wow, Lord, yeah, yeah, So the mainstream Democratic
Speaker 2: Party is waking up to the threat of the DSA.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that little more later on. Also, Jack,
Speaker 2: I know this will warm your heart. There's a new
Speaker 2: specialty in counseling. It's getting more and more folks going
Speaker 2: to it. It's counseling to get you over the stupid,
Speaker 2: counterproductive counseling you've had.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, what do you call it? Meta counseling or
Speaker 1: counter counseling. I like counter counseling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's illiterative anyway, or assonance I guess anyway, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: What was I going to say?
Speaker 2: Oh, in particular, a new trend among counselors to make
Speaker 2: everything that's bad that's ever happened to your trauma. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and say you should several relations with your family. Oh,
Speaker 2: skyrocketing levels of people reporting Yeah, my councilor told them,
Speaker 2: don't even talk to your mom anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's common. Oh my god, I have I have
Speaker 1: lived that. I can't talk about it, not in my family,
Speaker 1: thank god. Yeah. But oh that is a bad one.
Speaker 1: So so much to gum.
Speaker 2: But first, let's take a look inside a China cabinet.
Speaker 4: China don't trust China.
Speaker 1: That's true, Sir. I apologize for interrupting christ to me.
Speaker 1: You haven't done this for a.
Speaker 2: While, and I was thinking about the fact that several
Speaker 2: different presidents have said, you know, we really need to
Speaker 2: pivot away from the Middle East, which is a quagmire
Speaker 2: and a pain in the ass, because China is the
Speaker 2: real threat.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this too. Freed Zakaria made it
Speaker 1: the focus of his Sunday show, and I thought, you're right,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how to get out of it.
Speaker 1: China is such a big winner in this US being
Speaker 1: distracted from the biggest threat on the planet being China,
Speaker 1: the fact that we're using so many of our munitions
Speaker 1: and everything like that. China doesn't worry about the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Why have we always gotten sucked into the Middle East
Speaker 1: and been the ones to try to fix the problems,
Speaker 1: which I really a lot of you America firsters who
Speaker 1: voted for Trump have been screaming that this whole time,
Speaker 1: why why are we the world's policemen in the Middle East?
Speaker 1: Let him sort it all out. But on the other hand,
Speaker 1: nobody else don't, is the answer. Nobody else in the
Speaker 1: world was going to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, right.
Speaker 1: The fact that China isn't worried about Iran having a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon doesn't mean it's not a problem. Yeah.
Speaker 2: In many cases, America is like the believied sheriff of
Speaker 2: lawless to the western town, just trying to keep civilization together.
Speaker 2: If he stops, civilization will go away. That's why we
Speaker 2: continue to police the world, because the alternative is not
Speaker 2: somebody else doing the job as well as we do.
Speaker 2: The alternative is nobody doing the damn job in China
Speaker 2: taking over and twisting the world to their aims. To
Speaker 2: wit a handful of stories, here's a headline for you,
Speaker 2: China's destroyers live fire drill draws protest by Japan. They've
Speaker 2: got live fire exercises is going on just southwest of
Speaker 2: a Japanese a toll, Following not long ago China Russia
Speaker 2: exercises and the Japanese are getting freaked out about it.
Speaker 2: And a toll is a little island, It's a series
Speaker 2: of little islands. Chinese guided missile destroyer carried out the
Speaker 2: drill on Sunday in waters about one hundred and ten
Speaker 2: miles southwest of unpronounceable Akorla Toll between Taiwan and Guam.
Speaker 2: That is the southernmost part of Japan. According to Japan's
Speaker 2: Defense Ministry, the Detroyer has sailed to the area alongside
Speaker 2: two other Chinese naval vessels and a Russian frigate.
Speaker 1: Just frigate, that's what I say.
Speaker 2: And the japan have Japanese rather have filed an official complaint,
Speaker 2: not an informal or unofficial complaint, unofficial one. And how
Speaker 2: about this, okay, I probably should have led with this
Speaker 2: from the Wall Street Journal. China aggressively patrols disputed waters.
Speaker 2: Now the US Coast Guard is moving in. Ships have
Speaker 2: been pulled from the Middle East to form more flexible
Speaker 2: expeditionary squadrons. Oh Boy Coast Guard ships deployed previously in
Speaker 2: the Middle East are now operating out of Singapore and
Speaker 2: the Philippines. Deale challenge China's assertion of power in the Pacific.
Speaker 1: That sounds like just a straight up I wonder what
Speaker 1: would happen if we did this. They so bogged down
Speaker 1: in the Middle East that they can't even pay attention
Speaker 1: to this, and we sent some ships over there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's similar to Russia's model probe probe probe
Speaker 2: test test test.
Speaker 1: It's not like China is not aware. How I hate
Speaker 1: to use the word bogged down, but might be might
Speaker 1: be accurate at this point. It's not like we can
Speaker 1: pull out and let Iran have the straight Trump might
Speaker 1: disagree with what I just said. Actually so.
Speaker 2: The six hundred and fifty four foot fast Response cutters
Speaker 2: are part of the Coast Guards to Reimagined Expeditionary Cutter Squadron,
Speaker 2: which can be sent anywhere in the world. Their first
Speaker 2: deployment is the Western Pacific, where tensions have run high.
Speaker 2: Has China escalated what is called a gray zone campaign
Speaker 2: to project control around Taiwan and the disputed waters of
Speaker 2: the South China Sea. They're beaten the hell out of
Speaker 2: the poor Philippine Coastguard man.
Speaker 1: Do they bully them?
Speaker 2: Just trying to stretch their area of control outward outward
Speaker 2: outward all the time, and now the US is sending,
Speaker 2: we are sending our coastguard.
Speaker 1: Vessels moving along.
Speaker 2: Chijin Ping had a big conference last week touting open
Speaker 2: source AI and taking a swipe at AI dominance. If
Speaker 2: you fall for this, you're either young and naive or stupid.
Speaker 2: Cheese in Ping talking about AI development should not be
Speaker 2: a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony
Speaker 2: of global cooperation.
Speaker 1: He called for cooperation within the framework of the UN.
Speaker 2: To ensure that AI is secure and controllable, and he
Speaker 2: highlighted the potential dangers of autonomous systems making life or
Speaker 2: death decisions.
Speaker 1: Ah, what is.
Speaker 2: The grand prize of AGI? He's asking, why use it
Speaker 2: to create closed systems?
Speaker 1: We need to share this technology.
Speaker 2: The minute China gets a one inch lead on AI,
Speaker 2: they'll say, open source my ass.
Speaker 1: Now we're leading.
Speaker 2: Come on, wake up. Unbelievable comedy devils speaking of AI.
Speaker 2: We've talked about this a bit, the controversy over data
Speaker 2: centers and Kathy Hokeel, the twitnor of New York Electric bills.
Speaker 1: Clearly, yes, twit with an eye.
Speaker 2: With their temporary moratorium on data centers because it's politically
Speaker 2: kind of hot on the left, and because it gives
Speaker 2: her a chance to blame sky high electric bills in
Speaker 2: New York on data centers, when it's all they're idiotic,
Speaker 2: doubling down on green energy farces that funnel money to
Speaker 2: their cronies only somewhat related to the China cabinet. But
Speaker 2: I wanted to throw it in and get to this
Speaker 2: headline from the New York Times. China, Russia and others
Speaker 2: seek to inflame debate over AI data centers. And you know,
Speaker 2: I hate to give the New York Times much credit
Speaker 2: because they are just a biased, ridiculous pain in the
Speaker 2: ass right now. But honestly, if the New York Times
Speaker 2: is out saying, look a lot of this anti AI stuff,
Speaker 2: the anti data center stuf being fed by the Chinese
Speaker 2: and the Russians, then you know it's just so obviously
Speaker 2: true that not even they can ignore it.
Speaker 1: Here's the story.
Speaker 2: Stayed owned newspaper in China recently published a satellite image
Speaker 2: of a data center in Gainesville, Virginia, writing in English
Speaker 2: that the development of AI intelligence opposed a threat to
Speaker 2: America's physical and financial wellbeing. The comic strip made to
Speaker 2: look as if it had been published by a Maryland
Speaker 2: news outlet created with open AI's chat GPT by people
Speaker 2: in China, ironically circulated on x this year, blaming data
Speaker 2: centers for soaring electricity bills. It showed a tycoon smoking
Speaker 2: a cigar and clutching bags of cash to what tycoons do? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a classic, isn't this from like the depression?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Video shared on x by a known covert Russian influence
Speaker 2: operation questioned the validity of a data center that an
Speaker 2: American company, Firebird, is constructing in Armenia, the small Caucuses
Speaker 2: nation that's been the focused Kremlin pressure. Quote, the country's
Speaker 2: electrical grid instability may render it useless. The videos, a
Speaker 2: narrator says, so of the controversy you're seeing is being
Speaker 2: fed financed by China and to a lesser extent, Russia.
Speaker 2: Actually Iran. But Iran's kind of busy getting bombed right
Speaker 2: now too. And this is actually a great description of
Speaker 2: the way they work. It's Jessica Brand, former official with
Speaker 2: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She says, quote,
Speaker 2: foreign actors aren't manufacturing American debates over the future of AI,
Speaker 2: They're exploiting them. The goal is to deepen divisions in
Speaker 2: order to dent our appeal and weaken us from within.
Speaker 1: Speaking of.
Speaker 2: Your doom scrolling on Twitter, so much of that stuff
Speaker 2: is being fed to us by our adversaries.
Speaker 1: I know that's true. That's why I want. I want
Speaker 1: an opt out. I wish YouTube. Well, of course they're
Speaker 1: not going to do this because that's how they make
Speaker 1: their money, or they think they make their money. I
Speaker 1: want an opt out. I don't want an algorithm. I'll
Speaker 1: make my own decisions. Yeah, yeah, just randomly feed me
Speaker 1: news stories, no algorithms. But you know they're never going
Speaker 1: to do that. But it's so bad force even if
Speaker 1: it's not unhealthy stuff. You're so siloed on your information. Right,
Speaker 1: you gave a great example.
Speaker 2: Well, why don't we say that was a tangential but
Speaker 2: relevant end to a look in the China cabinet, China.
Speaker 1: You gave a great example.
Speaker 2: I think it was off the air about the algorithm
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Speaker 1: I don't know how hard it would be to set
Speaker 1: up like a different Twitter account to get a different algorithm,
Speaker 1: or if Twitter or Google or whoever would figure out
Speaker 1: it's still me yeah, they have very very wily.
Speaker 2: Or do you spend forty five minutes one day just
Speaker 2: deliberately clicking on things that are different?
Speaker 1: Maybe that would do it. I don't know. But if
Speaker 1: you're the sort of college kid who got interested in
Speaker 1: what Israel's doing in Gaza and you got fed every
Speaker 1: single day the worst pictures of rubble and injured people
Speaker 1: in Gaza, you think that's the number one story in
Speaker 1: the world that everybody's following, and Israel is evil as
Speaker 1: opposed to I didn't click on those stories. I don't
Speaker 1: get fed anything about Gaza ever.
Speaker 2: On Twitter, ever, many of those messages crafted by Hamas
Speaker 2: Iran and Cutter, I.
Speaker 1: Get NonStop stuff about nutjob socialists out there, which the nutjobs,
Speaker 1: you know, college kids believe that stuff probably don't get
Speaker 1: at all, and vice versa. So yeah, I don't. This
Speaker 1: algorithm problem is serious. Can we come up with the
Speaker 1: random goarhythm? That's what I want? Yeah, just to digest.
Speaker 2: So that doesn't work as a business model, they'll say, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 2: we make a lot of money by feeding you what
Speaker 2: you want, So we're making you miserable.
Speaker 1: That's your problem, sad sack. So I carry around a
Speaker 1: clicker in my hand, like a homeplate umpire to keep
Speaker 1: a track of things. Eight three hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 1: That's how many times I've seen the old man flipped
Speaker 1: by the bison at this point. And he did an
Speaker 1: interview yesterday. We've got a little of what the flippy
Speaker 1: had to say, oh, from his hospital bed. All other things.
Speaker 5: Faster, trust me, I've got buffalo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got that coming up, among other things. Stay here,
Speaker 1: armstrong and getty.
Speaker 8: We're hearing from the sixty five year old man who
Speaker 8: got flipped eight feet in the air by a bison
Speaker 8: this month at Yellowstone National Park. The video, which was
Speaker 8: everywhere on social media, shows the bison chasing Carl Ism
Speaker 8: McDaniel around a grove of trees and then launching him skywards.
Speaker 8: He broke his femur in four places, had surgery. Now
Speaker 8: recovering at Bozeman Health. He is sharing his story from
Speaker 8: his hospital bed.
Speaker 9: They moved faster than you could ever imagine. He just
Speaker 9: kept coming and he's more oppressive, and as soon as
Speaker 9: he got off that tree, he launched me in.
Speaker 8: The Airson McDaniel says he's relieved it was him and
Speaker 8: not his thirteen year old grandson, who is what I had.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I had never thought of that. Of course,
Speaker 1: that's what he was thinking about that. It would have
Speaker 1: been the only thing on my mind is how do
Speaker 1: I keep this thing away from, you know, my kid
Speaker 1: and grandson. It didn't even occur to me. That's what
Speaker 1: he was afraid of. That's what I would have been
Speaker 1: afraid of.
Speaker 2: Boy, for those who slept through science class, your femur's
Speaker 2: the big bone in your leg. He broke it in
Speaker 2: four places. That's a serious damn injury. It's supposed to
Speaker 2: be among the worst pains a human being convealed as
Speaker 2: having your femur broken because it's such a big bone.
Speaker 1: He seems okay, God bless him. We got a little
Speaker 1: more of him from the hospital bed. Although the set
Speaker 1: up there by Tony dikoppole, you're assuming there's a human
Speaker 1: being in America that isn't familiar with the story, that
Speaker 1: you need to reset it, because I don't think there's
Speaker 1: ever been anything with such reach and saturation as this story.
Speaker 1: Trump being elected president didn't have the reach of this
Speaker 1: guy getting flipped by the bison. Okay, here's the guy
Speaker 1: from his hospital, but bed.
Speaker 9: We saw the bison and he was down. He wasn't
Speaker 9: showing aggression or anything like that until it picked a target.
Speaker 9: That target happened to be me. At the time, I
Speaker 9: had my grandson with me. It was like, you need
Speaker 9: to get up to the amphitheater, I will deal with
Speaker 9: this down here.
Speaker 1: They moved faster than you could ever image him.
Speaker 9: He just kept coming and he was more aggressive, and
Speaker 9: as soon as he got off that tree, he launched
Speaker 9: me in the air, even though I was on the ground.
Speaker 9: He could have stopped me, he could have gored me,
Speaker 9: could have done anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I just saw the video again. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I hadn't paid attention to the end of it. When
Speaker 1: he's on the ground and the bison starts walking toward him.
Speaker 1: He had to be thinking I'm done for and then
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, it turns around. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe it was that photographer who took the video
Speaker 2: who was screaming at the thing and trying to distract it.
Speaker 1: Maybe or in the pool, poor old fella. That's fuel.
Speaker 2: They literally, as we're talking about this, are showing it
Speaker 2: on life.
Speaker 1: And it had never occurred to me. Of course, he was
Speaker 1: scared to death. The kid was going to get run over.
Speaker 1: I had another thought on the Oh did I see
Speaker 1: the other day that they run thirty five miles an hour.
Speaker 1: I could believe that. I suppose, Oh my gosh, gigantic beast.
Speaker 1: If that thing got it was coming at you at
Speaker 1: that speed, you'd be thinking, how is something that big coming?
Speaker 1: That would be like if Lawrence Taylor's going after you,
Speaker 1: How is something that big running that fast? Right? WHOA, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you run that experiment a thousand times. How many times
Speaker 1: do you end up able to talk to the press
Speaker 1: a week later? I don't know, very very often.
Speaker 2: Watch out for those big old beasts if you're at
Speaker 2: a natural National park.
Speaker 1: First of all, when you're spinning three year if it's
Speaker 1: just that, now you're into weltze like spinning our wheel.
Speaker 1: Do I land on my feet and break my leg?
Speaker 1: Or do I land on my head and I'm instantly dead?
Speaker 2: Let's see, right, this will be interesting. There's the ground,
Speaker 2: there's the ground again, there's the ground again?
Speaker 1: Oh leg? Or back at such an angle that I'm
Speaker 1: alive but paralyzed from the neck down for the rest
Speaker 1: of my life. Right right, Yeah, you're lucky. All these
Speaker 1: guys are broken femur o. God dang it. At age
Speaker 1: sixty five, I can't imagine what the healing process on
Speaker 1: that is, Like, you know, how much time do we have, Michael?
Speaker 1: Does he get to sue Buffalo Bill Cody or is
Speaker 1: he anybody he can sue the buffalo bills?
Speaker 2: That's why I would sue the buffalo encouraging right, yep,
Speaker 2: encouraging the bison to be more aggressive, or the people's
Speaker 2: interest in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: I'd had no interest in Buffalo if it weren't for
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Right, you can get say, fifty thousand dollars settlement.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm hoping he gets an endorsement of some sort
Speaker 2: oh something.
Speaker 1: Hi, I'm the old guy that got flipped through the air.
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Speaker 2: end of a long stressful day, or have you been
Speaker 2: flipped in the air by a bison and you point
Speaker 2: to the screen and shows you tildol is the answer, right,
Speaker 2: that's gotta happen, So nothing's gonna screw you up worse
Speaker 2: than counseling these days, we'll have that story for you. Plus,
Speaker 2: the Democratic mainstream is starting to realize, Okay, we need
Speaker 2: to fight these lunatics a DSA.
Speaker 1: That therapy story doesn't surprise me in the least. Can't
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