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Speaker 3: I do want to talk more about the assassination of
Speaker 3: that healthcare guy in the reaction to it online, but
Speaker 3: also in terms of how much ignorance is being displayed.
Speaker 3: And I excuse people for this because the media never
Speaker 3: writes about this, or very very rarely does. The unholy
Speaker 3: horrific interaction between government and specifically Obamacare and Congress and
Speaker 3: private healthcare and insurance. It is an unholy relationship which
Speaker 3: forces the private insurance companies to do things that they
Speaker 3: would not normally do. So if you think, you know,
Speaker 3: I got denied or whatever, and it sucks and I'm angry. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: you've got to look at Congress and people don't understand that.
Speaker 3: So maybe we'll get Craig gott Wallace on to talk
Speaker 3: about that later this week, or talk about ourselves.
Speaker 4: But anyway, we're going to talk to a couple of
Speaker 4: our favorite military analysts about what's going on in the
Speaker 4: Middle East, because the United States is involved. Absolutely, we
Speaker 4: have troops there and did a lot of bombing yesterday
Speaker 4: in Syria, for instance. So that'll be at least an
Speaker 4: hour two. I hope you can catch that. An economic
Speaker 4: thing that I find interesting. Last week I was bemoaning
Speaker 4: the fact to that I did not buy bitcoin. Even
Speaker 4: even if I had bought bitcoin after the first time
Speaker 4: I bemoined bitcoin after the election, I still would have
Speaker 4: done well. And then it hit one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 4: last week and whatever. But this article on the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal young men are making risky bets on crypto
Speaker 4: and politics and raking it in right now, I thought
Speaker 4: was an more interesting sociological story than financial story about
Speaker 4: the way young men feel in this country. And as
Speaker 4: a guy who's raising a couple of young men, it
Speaker 4: worries me a lot and did you know this if
Speaker 4: you had a hypothetical portfolio.
Speaker 2: Of course, nobody would have this, so it's a little unfair.
Speaker 3: But if you had a hypothetical portfolio holding equal amounts
Speaker 3: of bitcoin, gold, the meme stock, game stop, and the
Speaker 3: sports betting stock draft kings, you would have returned sixty
Speaker 3: two percent so far this year. That has tripled the
Speaker 3: returns of a traditional portfolio that most of us have.
Speaker 3: Sixty percent stocks, forty percent bonds, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Sixty two percent. That'd be a pretty good year if
Speaker 3: you had those days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's mostly young men that are doing this thing,
Speaker 4: these things, these kind of stocks. Some forty two percent
Speaker 4: of men's ages ages eighteen to twenty nine invested in
Speaker 4: or used crypto, versus only seventeen percent.
Speaker 2: Of women in that age group. A Pew Research.
Speaker 4: Center said almost eleven percent of men say they are well,
Speaker 4: I'll skip that, I'll get to this because I don't
Speaker 4: want to. I want to use a part time. I
Speaker 4: want to get to the part that I think is
Speaker 4: actually most important. Some men say they have little choice
Speaker 4: but to roll the dice in a world they believe
Speaker 4: is stacked against them. Their participation in the labor force
Speaker 4: is falling while it's growing for women in their age.
Speaker 4: Young men are is less likely to enroll in college.
Speaker 4: Men out earn women in the workplace and are more
Speaker 4: likely to reach executive level positions. But some forty five
Speaker 4: percent of young men said in twenty twenty three they
Speaker 4: face gender discrimination. Only a third of men said that
Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen. It's now almost half. That's how much
Speaker 4: it's grown in just a few years, according to recent survey.
Speaker 4: And then it goes through how many women are in
Speaker 4: college campuses, and are this percentage of that and that
Speaker 4: percentage of the I think the view that younger men
Speaker 4: have of themselves in their role in society. Wow, that's
Speaker 4: an underappreciated problem we have in the country, and I
Speaker 4: don't know what we.
Speaker 2: Do to fix it.
Speaker 3: I agree completely absolutely. You combine, you know, the things
Speaker 3: you mentioned with people are not coupling, partly because so
Speaker 3: many women are radical leftists who won't couple with anybody
Speaker 3: who's not a radical leftist. You got to just the
Speaker 3: value of the nuclear family being diminished in society, and
Speaker 3: just all of the things that all of the like
Speaker 3: most fundamental and primal things that drive men. I will
Speaker 3: provide and I will protect have been taken away.
Speaker 4: We've talked about this for a couple of years about
Speaker 4: how the percentage of working age may bills that are
Speaker 4: not in the workforce is as high as it was
Speaker 4: during the Great Depression.
Speaker 3: That's horrifying, Yeah it is and strange. Yes, it is
Speaker 3: very strange in a society that's not, like, really focused
Speaker 3: on what's going on. There is gonna pay price for
Speaker 3: it at some point. No, because of the utterly moronic
Speaker 3: whatever they say it was the second phase of feminism
Speaker 3: or something where to be pro woman meant to be
Speaker 3: anti man, which is just an idiotic notion. But that
Speaker 3: doesn't mean it wasn't really popular.
Speaker 4: But does this surprise anybody that more women come out
Speaker 4: of high school thinking, oh, yeah, here are the many
Speaker 4: opportunities for me in America of ways to make a
Speaker 4: living and make a go of it in the world.
Speaker 2: And it's much much less so for.
Speaker 4: Young men to feel like, you know, college is for me,
Speaker 4: welcoming for me, or this career path or whatever.
Speaker 3: I have no data to prove this point, but I
Speaker 3: suspect that it's true. I think a lot of young
Speaker 3: men also emerge from their schooling beaten down right because
Speaker 3: they have been systematically given the message there is something
Speaker 3: wrong with you merely because you are male, but also
Speaker 3: because like as a little boy.
Speaker 2: You acted like a male.
Speaker 3: Masculinity of any sort, including boyish energy, is pathologized in
Speaker 3: our sick, sick communist government schools, combined with an attitude
Speaker 3: that is changing things to Mike Row and lots of people,
Speaker 3: but an attitude of the kind of jobs that a
Speaker 3: lot of men would like to do are belittled, and
Speaker 3: you know, paper pushing jobs that more women would be
Speaker 3: more interested in are seen as fantastic. Well in just
Speaker 3: the whole Obama era smugness about of course everything he
Speaker 3: did had smugness about it. But the idea that college
Speaker 3: is the only route for the respectable and those unwashed
Speaker 3: idiot brutes who don't go to college and work their
Speaker 3: menial jobs building HIVAC companies and being carpenters and whatever,
Speaker 3: that's just.
Speaker 2: Sad, so sad. Do they even have the power of speech,
Speaker 2: those brutes? I mean, that was the attitude.
Speaker 4: So if the takeaway from that article in the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal was supposed to be that men feel like
Speaker 4: they either do or just feel like they have no
Speaker 4: route to success in America. They're going to take these
Speaker 4: higher risk bets on crypto and some of these other stocks.
Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal of all publications shouldn't go with
Speaker 4: if you had this imaginary portfolio.
Speaker 2: Well nobody does so.
Speaker 4: And even if you had that imaginary portfolio, you'd have
Speaker 4: to get in at the right time and get out
Speaker 4: at the right time to take advantage of that. So
Speaker 4: I mean, again, the Wall Street Journal of all places
Speaker 4: shouldn't shouldn't play that kind of game, right, right?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I uh, well, I've had more to say on that,
Speaker 3: but that's probably enough for now.
Speaker 4: Well would you say, am I right or wrong about this?
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm just trying to assume my hurt feelings over
Speaker 4: the fact that I don't understand cryptocurrency. Is it just
Speaker 4: a very small percentage of people that are actually getting
Speaker 4: in and getting out at the right times?
Speaker 5: Too?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean every time it goes up,
Speaker 3: it goes down again, and those people take a bath.
Speaker 3: But that's not very exciting to write or read about.
Speaker 3: So it's like people who lose at Vegas. They don't
Speaker 3: come home and tell their friends the other part of it,
Speaker 3: And this is the part that I decided not to say,
Speaker 3: but I'll go ahead. I lost four thousand dollars. Then
Speaker 3: I got chlymydia. Nobody ever told me that. So I
Speaker 3: used to play a fair amount of poker. I play
Speaker 3: less now. And I think it's interesting that what is
Speaker 3: one of the big financial places has all of their
Speaker 3: new associates take one hundred hours of poker training and
Speaker 3: playing and all so they start to understand risk and
Speaker 3: levels of risk and that sort of thing. And I
Speaker 3: don't get frustrated about missing these meme stocks and stuff
Speaker 3: like that more than a little because and I hope
Speaker 3: this makes sense to if you play poker, it certainly does.
Speaker 3: You have a policy depending on where you are in
Speaker 3: the game, how many chips you have, whatever. If I
Speaker 3: have like a decent hand, I will roll the dice
Speaker 3: and pay some to see, like in Texas, hold them
Speaker 3: the flop. Those are the three community cards that come
Speaker 3: out first. But if I have a crap hand, I
Speaker 3: have a three and a seven, for instance, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to pay anything to see that flop because it's
Speaker 3: just unlikely as a percentage, it's not likely enough that
Speaker 3: it would bear out for me.
Speaker 2: And sometimes so you fold your hand. Then sometimes the
Speaker 2: flop is three threes.
Speaker 3: I'd have had quad threes and taken everybody's money, but
Speaker 3: that doesn't matter. My policy is I do the math
Speaker 3: in my head, and I don't gamble on things not
Speaker 3: worth gambling on. So as long as you have like
Speaker 3: a method to the madness of your investing in your
Speaker 3: financial moves and don't beat an maybe it is. Maybe
Speaker 3: you're young and untethered and you chase meme stocks and
Speaker 3: bitcoin and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Good for you, but y fun. I'm kind of jealous.
Speaker 4: But why does the Wall Street Journal crowd talk up
Speaker 4: crypto like it is solid sound investment strategy. They don't
Speaker 4: believe that. There's no way most of the people in
Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal believe that. No, it's almost just
Speaker 4: purely speculation. So just it's exciting, It gets clicks, So
Speaker 4: it's just like any other newspaper. It's just yeah, I
Speaker 4: see those articles. I read them too, Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 4: I kicked myself right in the ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I try not to because that that whole foma thing. Oh,
Speaker 3: it comes on strong, doesn't it. It's like you run
Speaker 3: into a guy who says, yeah, I bought Apple in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety one at four dollars.
Speaker 2: Shut up. Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up, you're right.
Speaker 4: Nobody ever says I got into bitcoin late, thought I
Speaker 4: would jump on it. I lost a bunch of money
Speaker 4: and I got chlmydia once again.
Speaker 3: I don't know how this guy got clividio and my
Speaker 3: stories everybody gets chlmydia.
Speaker 2: Well, it's everywhere.
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Speaker 4: One question I don't know the answer to, because we're
Speaker 4: in this business so we are really not in touch
Speaker 4: with the average person is how much regular people are
Speaker 4: paying attention to this. I've heard a number of people
Speaker 4: punditing around how normal people aren't paying attention to anything
Speaker 4: that's going on politically right now. They kind of hear
Speaker 4: about it and think Trump won't actually be the candidate.
Speaker 4: Willie or Biden's too old, isn't he?
Speaker 3: But they aren't paying any attention at all to any
Speaker 3: of this stuff, and this will be their first introduction
Speaker 3: to the thing where and that might be part of
Speaker 3: Biden's strategy.
Speaker 2: Hey, Trump's the candidate.
Speaker 4: Did you all realize that he's running again, that a
Speaker 4: lot of people haven't really grasped this yet.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's true enough, Like I said,
Speaker 4: because I'm in this business, it seems crazy to me.
Speaker 4: But right, Yeah, it's difficult to put yourself in the
Speaker 4: place of the non news junkie.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I look back to my earlier life though, and
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have I wouldn't have been aware of any
Speaker 3: of this stuff that we talk about every day, none
Speaker 3: of it. I think vast majority of Americans don't buy
Speaker 3: it's by v Trump. I'll it it's eighty plus anymore
Speaker 3: on any of the issues.
Speaker 2: I doubt it. Oh no, not really, Well, it depends
Speaker 2: what issue.
Speaker 3: I mean. I'm looking at an immigration story here that's
Speaker 3: actually quite an interesting More than half of immigrants in
Speaker 3: the US are unemployed.
Speaker 2: So much for the whole weather boon to the economy,
Speaker 2: they had to take jobs. Americas wop too.
Speaker 4: I was switching around and I was on Fox this
Speaker 4: morning and they had a live camera at the border
Speaker 4: with a bunch of people running across, and Brian Kilmead said, hey,
Speaker 4: look some future lifeguards.
Speaker 3: Has anybody explained that the bizarre and inexplicable Eric Adams
Speaker 3: quote that why do.
Speaker 2: We have all these migrants who are so skilled that
Speaker 2: we need lifeguards?
Speaker 3: So as long as I brought it up, more than
Speaker 3: half of the foreign born immigrant population in the United
Speaker 3: States under President Joe Biden's administration is I'm unemployed. According
Speaker 3: to a recent report Center for Immigration Studies released apport
Speaker 3: Monday that showed just forty six percent of migrants who
Speaker 3: arrived in the US in the last two and a
Speaker 3: half years were employed as the beginning of twenty four.
Speaker 3: Well there their activists would argue, they need permits, they're
Speaker 3: eating something.
Speaker 2: Who's paying for the food? Taxpayers, the gunment, and the NGOs.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Report found that also found that since Biden took
Speaker 3: office in January twenty one, the migrant population why are
Speaker 3: we using the term migrant in breight part, the immigrant
Speaker 3: population in the United States increased by roughly six point
Speaker 3: six million over the course of thirty nine months. Six
Speaker 3: point six million in less than four years. See, I
Speaker 3: ended up in the shower last night. This is what
Speaker 3: I do for fun. This makes me a crazy person.
Speaker 3: And the shower last night was like talking out loud
Speaker 3: as if I were Donald Trump in the debate with
Speaker 3: Joe Biden on how I would handle this whole thing,
Speaker 3: I guess because I'd just taken in so much information
Speaker 3: about it. But make some sort of speech about I
Speaker 3: agreed to.
Speaker 2: All your rules. You wanted all these different rules.
Speaker 3: You picked the moderators, you picked the place, you said,
Speaker 3: no audience, you want the mics. Fine, nothing is going
Speaker 3: to get you to cover up the fact that the
Speaker 3: three main issues, according to every poll in America for
Speaker 3: months and months and months, the economy, immigration, and inflation,
Speaker 3: you have failed on like nobody has ever failed before.
Speaker 3: Then you lay out some statistics and you just hit
Speaker 3: that like five times. Yeah, yeah, I would love to
Speaker 3: see that. I get the idea Trump is listening a
Speaker 3: bit more to his advisors, a bit more disciplined than
Speaker 3: he's been in the past. But whether he will go
Speaker 3: in loaded for bear in that way, I do not know.
Speaker 3: I did never know with him.
Speaker 4: He's got to have this stats at hand on the
Speaker 4: immigration stuff. The numbers, percentages are the wraw numbers to
Speaker 4: let people know, I mean, getting back to the course,
Speaker 4: immigration is been the number one or two issue in
Speaker 4: all the polling, So people are paying attention enough to know.
Speaker 2: That right, I would agree. That's actually why I brought
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 3: I think people are acutely aware of that, even if
Speaker 3: they're not terribly politically active, they're seeing it around them.
Speaker 3: They're local towns and schools and emergency rooms and the
Speaker 3: rest of it. My frustration with Trump is that he'll
Speaker 3: probably come to the debate with like one statistic on immigration,
Speaker 3: seven million immigrants, Joe, and then somebody will fact check
Speaker 3: it and cast a little doubt on whether seven is
Speaker 3: an accurate number or not. And since that's all he
Speaker 3: leans on, it'll be easy to dismiss it.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. We'll all find out together.
Speaker 4: The inflation thing again, the news coverage of it yesterday.
Speaker 4: Good news for consumers is they'll notice inflation slowing. Good
Speaker 4: news when you go to the grocery store. Oh no,
Speaker 4: that's not the way inflation works. You don't notice the
Speaker 4: inflation rates slowing. That's not something you feel. People are
Speaker 4: gonna continue to for a long time to feel shocked
Speaker 4: by prices when we go and buy stuff, and the
Speaker 4: fact that the Democrats don't get that, so he needs
Speaker 4: to have some answer for that. I don't know if
Speaker 4: Joe Biden is going to go with the it's the
Speaker 4: corporation sticking it to you, gouging you.
Speaker 2: But he's got to have some answer for inflation. Yeah right, Please.
Speaker 3: At the very least, I'm putting my hands together in
Speaker 3: traditional prayer.
Speaker 2: Style praying to Donald Trump. Ooh, a cultist bibe.
Speaker 3: One fact to at least be ready to rebut Donald,
Speaker 3: is if Joe Biden comes out there and once again says, hey,
Speaker 3: when I came into office, inflation was nine percent, thanks
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 4: Because he's said that in two interviews in two weeks now,
Speaker 4: and it's just as wrong as wrong could be. Please, Donald,
Speaker 4: be ready to rebut that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they hit little KJP with that, Yes, sir in
Speaker 3: the press room, and it was that job will cost
Speaker 3: you a bit of your soul.
Speaker 2: She had to say.
Speaker 3: What the President is seeking to emphasize is that the
Speaker 3: American people are feeling the effects of inflation.
Speaker 2: So she didn't go there. Huh No, she just dodged it.
Speaker 3: Of course, what's she gonna say, Well, he lied, he
Speaker 3: made it up, or he's senile and doesn't know fact
Speaker 3: from fiction anymore, or you repeat the easily checked lying
Speaker 3: number again and embarrass yourself even more.
Speaker 2: Right, so yeah, it's a tough situation to be in Armstrong.
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Speaker 3: We are on vacation, but boy do we have some
Speaker 3: good stuff for you.
Speaker 2: Now on with the infotainment. Starbucks anounts this week.
Speaker 3: It's doubled it's paid parental leave policy for baristas, while
Speaker 3: Duncan employees are still insisting they're not the father.
Speaker 2: How is that? What is that? That's some sort of
Speaker 2: what coast thing? I don't get? Wow? What sort of
Speaker 2: odd snobbery? The elite elite is out?
Speaker 3: Speaking of the elite, you know, I know you wanted
Speaker 3: to talk about something, and we will, By God, we will.
Speaker 3: But you know I'm a big Brett Bear fan. It's
Speaker 3: an article in the Wall Street Journal. The incoming Secretary
Speaker 3: of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, just bought Brett Bear's home in
Speaker 3: DC for twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 4: Brett Bear of Fox Yes is selling a home for
Speaker 4: twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's because he bought one in Palm Springs a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago, where he lives now. Apparently for thirty
Speaker 3: seven million, so he owned Brett doing pretty well. So
Speaker 3: he's been owning a thirty seven million dollar home home
Speaker 3: while owning another thirty million dollar home least for a
Speaker 3: little while, waiting for that to clear the market. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 3: there are that many buyers at that level?
Speaker 2: No, Jeck, wouldn't that. That's got to be something.
Speaker 4: There's got to be like five people in the entire country,
Speaker 4: maybe not even that many, because you'd have to be
Speaker 4: conceivably able to afford.
Speaker 2: It and then have any interest in buying a home
Speaker 2: at that moment.
Speaker 3: So it might be like two people in the nation
Speaker 3: at any given moment that could and want to buy.
Speaker 4: A home at that price range. I realize if you
Speaker 4: have to ask, you can't afford it. But what the
Speaker 4: hell are the property Texas on a house like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Hi karamba, yeahar bear. Thanks for that, Michael, A couple
Speaker 3: things for you you can't overseell.
Speaker 4: I don't think what a big deal it is. The
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal has this big piece on o'biden's brain
Speaker 4: and how they've been hiding it forever. Here's an interesting thing.
Speaker 4: Just teasing it because we're gonna talk about it. To
Speaker 4: kick off hour two. We got to talk about it
Speaker 4: every hour the whole show today because it's a big deal.
Speaker 4: A couple of things that I've come across in terms
Speaker 4: of just teasing the story for later is Matt Welch
Speaker 4: pointing out PolitiFact said the lie of the year is
Speaker 4: they're eating the dogs, They're eating the cats from Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: that's the lie of the year, and links the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal story saying White House meetings were frequently canceled
Speaker 4: because Joe Biden's brain didn't work. Yeah, yeah, the dogs
Speaker 4: and cats saying bigger lie than the hiding the fact
Speaker 4: that they had to cancel meetings all the time because
Speaker 4: the president's.
Speaker 2: Of brain didn't act.
Speaker 3: And where am I seeing most of the stuff the
Speaker 3: little snippets of the Wall Street Journal piece from James
Speaker 3: Holman of the Washington Post, who's retweeting all the most
Speaker 3: juicy stuff from the Wall Street Journal story, probably because
Speaker 3: he didn't like being lied to all this time, This
Speaker 3: initial tweet being and again, we're gonna kick off our
Speaker 3: two of this blockbuster reporting this morning from and he
Speaker 3: lists all the reporters they have fifty sources detailing various
Speaker 3: ways that Biden's inner circle was hiding his decline going
Speaker 3: back to twenty nineteen, and that's going.
Speaker 2: Back to the very beginning.
Speaker 3: But that's a Washington Post guy saying that about the
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal article. I think that's notable. And Nate
Speaker 3: Silver also retweeting that story and.
Speaker 4: Saying, if you said any of this before June twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, you'd get accused of peddling misinformation, like there
Speaker 4: was literally an entirely new category of misinformation invented cheap
Speaker 4: fakes concerning videos of Biden's decline that they would accuse
Speaker 4: you of. Now it's out in the open, and it's
Speaker 4: interesting that all these other people are retweeting this stuff.
Speaker 2: I find that unique.
Speaker 3: Indeed, I will point out, at the risk of self congratulations,
Speaker 3: if you've been listening to this show, you knew.
Speaker 2: I mean, we didn't even I didn't take seriously the denials.
Speaker 3: I thought they were hilarious, just idiotic. And it's all
Speaker 3: been born out again, you know, final punchline, and then
Speaker 3: we'll get to the story next hour in full, because
Speaker 3: it's it's well worth hearing. There are still those within
Speaker 3: the White House who were responding to this story and
Speaker 3: the various accusations observations. Joe Biden seriously diminished noise. Not
Speaker 3: you need to keep meetings short and simple with them.
Speaker 2: No, you don't. He's very old men. No not.
Speaker 4: There's still one hundred percent denying it. So again we'll
Speaker 4: kick off hour two with that. And there's a lot
Speaker 4: of interesting stuff in that.
Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm talking about government shut down, debt
Speaker 3: ceiling stuff.
Speaker 4: But there are a couple of interesting things happening. As
Speaker 4: we've already mentioned, Trump has come out and said he
Speaker 4: wants to fully get rid of the debt ceiling, which
Speaker 4: we have said many times before. Trump saying today the
Speaker 4: Democrats have said they want to get rid of it.
Speaker 4: If they want to get rid of it, I would
Speaker 4: lead the charge. It's a fake thing. There's no real
Speaker 4: value in terms of debt control, and we've been saying
Speaker 4: that for years.
Speaker 3: It doesn't actually do anything. It just puts us in
Speaker 3: this weird bickering back and forth, weird political handcuff situation
Speaker 3: every once in a while, but.
Speaker 2: So far it's never accomplished anything. Right, Yeah, it's hilarious.
Speaker 2: You could it's in first new clothes. Ish.
Speaker 4: You could make the argument that at least once a
Speaker 4: year twice a year. It makes you have the conversation
Speaker 4: about debt, and without it, we won't. I don't know,
Speaker 4: but so far it's never it's never helped, and it
Speaker 4: is completely made up.
Speaker 2: It's a man made thing. For what it's worth.
Speaker 3: A newt Gingrich just tweeted President Trump and Republicans should
Speaker 3: not be afraid of a government shutdown. The next election
Speaker 3: is two years away. We had two shutdowns in nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety five and became the first re elected GOP House
Speaker 3: majority since nineteen twenty eight. It may take shock therapy
Speaker 3: for Schumer and Democrats to learn President Trump is serious
Speaker 3: about training the swamp. And a number of people pointed
Speaker 3: out that during that time, when Bill Clinton was the president,
Speaker 3: that was our last budget surpluses as a country.
Speaker 2: They had a balanced budget multiple years to.
Speaker 3: A ninety five. I was barely following politics at all.
Speaker 3: I don't remember. I remember hearing stuff about Newton the shutdown.
Speaker 3: That sad, but I didn't think about it. Ever, So
Speaker 3: how much of the population would even be aware DC
Speaker 3: goes nuts over this stuff. Oh, if you didn't have
Speaker 3: the media acting like it's akin to the nationwide wild
Speaker 3: fire or something screeching about it constantly.
Speaker 2: No, you'd never notice, right, And it's always the thing
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 3: Many government ployees will miss a check, yeah, and then
Speaker 3: they'll get the rest of it like three days later.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no. They go with veterans.
Speaker 3: It'll be veterans, disabled veterans, blind, disabled veterans will not
Speaker 3: get their checks.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. And the old, the very old, the soul.
Speaker 2: They can't even lift their hand to feed themselves. Trying
Speaker 2: to figure out what sort of thing I want to
Speaker 2: talk about today. Remind the mood for various things.
Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, you mentioned Fox News and Brett
Speaker 4: bher how much money he makes, yeah, or not how
Speaker 4: much money makes, But he's selling one thirty million dollar
Speaker 4: house since he moved into a thirty five.
Speaker 2: Million dollars roughly. Yeah, which you mean you have both
Speaker 2: at the same time, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: Fox News dominated twenty twenty four so much it beat
Speaker 4: easily CNN and MSNBC added together for the.
Speaker 2: End of the year ratings.
Speaker 3: That is something I'd like to know what News Nation
Speaker 3: and OAN and some of the other ones are are,
Speaker 3: what sort of traction they're getting? Yeah, so that I
Speaker 3: don't want to bring that up. I can't I find
Speaker 3: it interesting. Maybe I'll bring it up later. I just
Speaker 3: can't make.
Speaker 2: Myself talk about this. Wow, all right, it's a downer.
Speaker 3: It's a conflicted man. We're listening to, folks, So do
Speaker 3: you know anything about this.
Speaker 2: Une?
Speaker 4: The president of South Korea who's now gone because he
Speaker 4: pulled that whole going to become emperor thing and martial
Speaker 4: law and all that.
Speaker 2: Luckily he suck, even suck.
Speaker 4: Luckily they were able to get back in there and
Speaker 4: vote him down and open the streets back up and
Speaker 4: then impeach him.
Speaker 2: Ian Bremmer tweeted this out yesterday, and I know nothing
Speaker 2: about this.
Speaker 4: Ewan's presidential campaign relied heavily on ai deep fake version
Speaker 4: of him that was much more engaging and sociable than
Speaker 4: the real him and got him elected. The real Yun's
Speaker 4: capability turned out to be a rude awakening to people.
Speaker 2: How did he? How did the world miss the story?
Speaker 2: Did a guy get elected.
Speaker 3: In a major economicly powerful country? Ian is implying through
Speaker 3: deep fake videos portraying him in a way he's not
Speaker 3: at all wow and misled people, And then when he
Speaker 3: became president, people are like, who are you? You're you're
Speaker 3: a weird.
Speaker 2: Off putting angry. Exactly did that.
Speaker 3: Think if Kamala had the videos out of her gliding
Speaker 3: around the room merely throwing out clever bond Mo after
Speaker 3: bond Mo making perfect sense, not giggling like a moron. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it could have changed things, huh much. But they don't
Speaker 3: have Hilary now Hillary. If they'd had deep fakes of
Speaker 3: Hillary seeming useful and likable and whatever, that could.
Speaker 2: Have turned the tide of history.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes they didn't have They don't have a
Speaker 3: media there in South Korea where there are sources.
Speaker 4: That could come out and say that never happened. Look,
Speaker 4: I was in the room that night. That is not
Speaker 4: what happened or something.
Speaker 3: I have no idea. This is this story's brand new
Speaker 3: to me. That's fascinating.
Speaker 4: I saw it late last night and I thought I
Speaker 4: got to dig into that because if that happened, that's
Speaker 4: a major turning point in world history. I think, sure, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they do have to figure out the AI. Some scientists
Speaker 4: needs to figure out what percentage of perfect faces can
Speaker 4: the brain handle and still think it's real or not.
Speaker 4: Because the perfect symmetry, I feel like I can look
Speaker 4: at the AI created people and me, that's ai. They're
Speaker 4: too perfect. Nobody looks like that. Nobody's perfectly symmetrical. Even
Speaker 4: really good looking people aren't perfectly symmetrical. But the ad
Speaker 4: people are the chicks usually because they got them everywhere,
Speaker 4: and it just they're they're obviously fake.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What's interesting is I know in digital recording, like music recording,
Speaker 3: you can fix something to a grid so it's perfectly
Speaker 3: in rhythm, and then you can instruct it to insert
Speaker 3: fifteen percent variation. Interesting, and I I'll bet that sort
Speaker 3: of thing's come into visual.
Speaker 2: And you add and you would do that to what
Speaker 2: mimic real humans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, essentially, it's like you fix something and then you
Speaker 3: unfix it a little bit so it sounds more human.
Speaker 4: Interesting. So I was a club DJ briefly when I
Speaker 4: was younger. I knowed I like that Gladys.
Speaker 3: Huh, And it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: Disco was king many decades after that.
Speaker 4: But so I would have to mix songs together, and
Speaker 4: like your rap or hip hop music or whatever, they
Speaker 4: use what they call a click track. I mean it's
Speaker 4: a computer dram. It's perfect, and so you can mix
Speaker 4: beats together. But any rock and roll song if you'd
Speaker 4: try to mix it there, like you know, back in
Speaker 4: Black ACDC or whatever, you can't because the tempo varies,
Speaker 4: rolling stones, any of the beat varies. They get a
Speaker 4: little faster toward the end or slow down in the
Speaker 4: middle or whatever, because it's human beings involved.
Speaker 2: And I always thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 4: Some of the most popular songs of all time, they
Speaker 4: didn't keep a perfectly steady beat through it.
Speaker 3: Of course you wouldn't, right, right, And I kind of
Speaker 3: regret being mostly recording during the ear of click tracks,
Speaker 3: because when you listen to those songs and it's pointed
Speaker 3: out to you, you think that's why the last chorus
Speaker 3: sounds more exciting. They picked up, they sped up a little,
Speaker 3: they got excited, or they slowed down before it, just
Speaker 3: because they were all looking at each other. And yeah,
Speaker 3: there was human emotion involved, exactly. They got excited. Now
Speaker 3: I'm excited, everybody's excited.
Speaker 4: That'll be the difficult thing for AI to mimic, although
Speaker 4: they'll figure soon enough. Also, looking at some of the
Speaker 4: Elon headlines, he is a guy who is not concerned
Speaker 4: what other people think about him. No, I don't think
Speaker 4: it ever crosses his mind. I mean he is. He
Speaker 4: is the all time king of I have no e
Speaker 4: fs to give mine ego, wealth and autism. I think
Speaker 4: there's plenty of people positioned, plenty of people with ego
Speaker 4: and wealth, but they seem to be very concerned what
Speaker 4: other people think.
Speaker 2: He's not one.
Speaker 4: And I said it yesterday you were gone somewhere that
Speaker 4: I wonder how much of his ability. Oh, it was
Speaker 4: the conversation we had about so Katie, you got the
Speaker 4: name for me, some big business leader, gazillionaire also who
Speaker 4: worked with Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk was talking about
Speaker 4: the signal the noise.
Speaker 2: Ratio thing that I'm kind of fascinated with, and he was.
Speaker 4: He was talking about how Steve Jobs was ninety percent
Speaker 4: signal ten percent noise, as in, ninety percent of everything
Speaker 4: he did was focused on getting something accomplished with very
Speaker 4: little extraneous whatever, and he worked twenty hours a day.
Speaker 4: He said, Elon is one hundred percent signal. Wow, just
Speaker 4: the way he's like twenty hours a day.
Speaker 3: And I wondered how much of that is his Asperger's
Speaker 3: just his ability to stay focused without like screw this,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something else. I'm gonna drink Margarita's and
Speaker 3: flip through you know, porn or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 3: I wish you could step on a scale or get
Speaker 3: a scan or something and they can say, well, Joe,
Speaker 3: you're twenty two percent signal.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, what, yeah, no kidding. Do you remember
Speaker 2: who that was? Katie? Yeah, Kevin O'Leary yea also big
Speaker 2: on Shark Tank. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know it's funny on that topic. I've got
Speaker 3: just a minor health thing on and everything's fine, but
Speaker 3: they wanted to do an MRI of my brain to
Speaker 3: make sure it wasn't a brain tumor.
Speaker 2: And how do you say I got a health thing?
Speaker 4: It's no big deal. They did an MRI to see
Speaker 4: if I got a brain tumor. That seems like a
Speaker 4: big deal.
Speaker 3: I just the details of it aren't interesting, and we're
Speaker 3: up against a break. It's it's a hearing thing, but
Speaker 3: it's it's I think I know what it is, gonna
Speaker 3: be fine. But anyway, I thought it was hilarious that
Speaker 3: I got the results. I actually saw them at Getting
Speaker 3: Ready with the show for the show today. Uh, and
Speaker 3: it said please you share the patient and his MRI
Speaker 3: looks normal and his brain showed nothing exceptional, and I thought, well,
Speaker 3: that's pretty much confirmed by the trajectory of my life.
Speaker 3: Exceptional the Joe Getty story. Yeah, that could be the
Speaker 3: title of your book. We see nothing exceptional, The Joe Getty.
Speaker 5: Story, Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 5: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: I dove into this article in The New York Post
Speaker 3: by Joe Kanca, Democracy Dies in Bias blamed The Washington
Speaker 3: Post's woes on its blatant political slant, and of course
Speaker 3: I lapped that up like hungry dog because i hate
Speaker 3: wildly biased progressive journalism and I'm glad the New York
Speaker 3: or the Washington Post is getting kicked and it's heiny
Speaker 3: and that they're changing course as well.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad I.
Speaker 3: Stuck with the article because this was even more interesting.
Speaker 3: Multiple media outlets are struggling like crazy as Google, Facebook,
Speaker 3: and to lesser extent x Twitter tweak their algorithms to
Speaker 3: reduce the amount of news users view and their feeds
Speaker 3: while keeping eyeballs and clicks for the tech behemoths themselves.
Speaker 3: They're not sending you to news organizations they're producing the
Speaker 3: content and trying to keep your eyeballs all day long.
Speaker 3: Whi's just you know, one more reminder that big tech man,
Speaker 3: anything that powerful has got to be watched really, really carefully.
Speaker 2: But he makes the point that a steady.
Speaker 3: Flow of traffic has come to a halt, diminishing a
Speaker 3: critical stream of ad revenue, not only for the WAPO,
Speaker 3: which has had a catastrophic, catastrophic loss in you know, clickers, readers,
Speaker 3: to ad sales, all of it, but also for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Time, BuzzFeed, NPR,
Speaker 3: and many others. Some conservative publications are seeing a big
Speaker 3: drop in readership for the same reason. Breitbart, for example,
Speaker 3: has talied to seventy six percent decrease in traffic comparing
Speaker 3: February twenty four to February twenty twenty. Wow, and February
Speaker 3: twenty twenty the pandemic shutdowns hadn't really geared up yet,
Speaker 3: So it's a pretty decent Apples Taples Frike Park does
Speaker 3: a really good job, by the way, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that is amazing. At the Blaze, the drop is sixty
Speaker 3: seven percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't. I don't know if I have any point.
Speaker 3: I just thought I had not realized that even your
Speaker 3: really popular conservative websites, your liberal websites, just everything's down
Speaker 3: as the voracious appetite of Zuckerberg, Pitch Eye and their
Speaker 3: ilk just consume everything, right. And I feel like like
Speaker 3: regular people that I talk to that aren't super news junkies,
Speaker 3: they just kind of get it from the air. I mean,
Speaker 3: it just kind of comes to them from It's not
Speaker 3: the New York Times or CNN or Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Anise, it's their feed on social media. It just kind
Speaker 2: of gets to them well.
Speaker 3: And the problem with that, obviously is from time immemorial,
Speaker 3: independent media could support itself through ad sales, and that's
Speaker 3: becoming harder and harder and harder. And I mean, at
Speaker 3: the point that can you imagine Bright bar at the Blaze,
Speaker 3: the Daily Caller, the Washington Times, you know, all of
Speaker 3: the great conservatives, the National Review.
Speaker 2: If all that stuff goes away and it's just Marcus
Speaker 2: Zuckerberg giving you your news, ooh boy.
Speaker 3: And his only interest in the news really is what
Speaker 3: gets you to stay on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Longer or Instagram longer.
Speaker 3: Well, and to the extent that he has a news philosophy,
Speaker 3: it is progressive.
Speaker 2: Man. I hate that idea.
Speaker 3: If I was a would be dictator of some sort,
Speaker 3: I'd be licking my chops at that idea. Man no philosophy,
Speaker 3: but a philosophy of clicks might be worse than a
Speaker 3: liberal or conservative bent armstrong and