Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jackie and he Armstrong and Jetty, they should have left.
Speaker 2: They should have made the deal. I had a great
Speaker 2: deal for them. They should have made that deal. Sixty
Speaker 2: days we talked about it, and in the end they
Speaker 2: decided not to do it. And now they wish they
Speaker 2: did it, and they want to meet. But it's a
Speaker 2: little late to meet. But they want to meet, and
Speaker 2: they want to come to the White House. So even
Speaker 2: come to the White House. So we'll see. I may
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: So Trump asked, over and over again. He kept saying,
Speaker 3: no matter what the question was, pretty much yesterday, whether
Speaker 3: he was on the White House lawn or in the
Speaker 3: Oval office behind the desk, that Iran can't have a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, saying it for twenty years, Ran cannot have
Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4: Here's a little more Trump, he.
Speaker 3: Says them on Iran, if regime change does happen there,
Speaker 3: if the regime fools, do you have a plan for
Speaker 3: what you think would happen, plan for.
Speaker 2: Everything, But we'll see what happens here kind of ways
Speaker 2: to go they should have made that dea in sixty days.
Speaker 2: We talked about it and in the end they decided
Speaker 2: not to do it, and now they wish they did it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on all the headlines yesterday where Trump has signed
Speaker 3: off on the plan to attack the nuclear facility but
Speaker 3: hasn't decided when yet.
Speaker 1: Did you see the denial from the mullas might have
Speaker 1: been even the head guy that they were willing to
Speaker 1: talk and go to the White House. He said, we'll
Speaker 1: never crawl to the gates of the White House for
Speaker 1: mercy or donag or whatever. Eating with them scumbags. You
Speaker 1: can nied it up and down, but he probably has to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there seems like the negotiating daser passed us. Uh right,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know if I don't know if
Speaker 3: they could pull the plug at this point, man, it
Speaker 3: would take an extraordinary statement.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to read this book when it comes out,
Speaker 1: But I could easily believe behind the scenes, the powers
Speaker 1: that be in Tehran made that overture to Trump, believing
Speaker 1: it would be top secret, and then Trump waved their
Speaker 1: uh you know, you know, waved it in their faces. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're begging me, you want to come to the White House,
Speaker 1: and they're freaking out. They're thinking, no, no, no, this
Speaker 1: has got to be secret or will lose the support
Speaker 1: of our ultra conservative supporters. And Trump may well be thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care. That sounds like a you problem. This
Speaker 1: is all going to be out in the open now.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't remember if I asked this yesterday.
Speaker 3: Do you think we we or Israel actually does know
Speaker 3: where the eyetola is, like, has his location?
Speaker 1: It's entirely possible.
Speaker 4: Wow, that'd be something.
Speaker 1: Do we have a source in the Palace guard or
Speaker 1: whatever the formal term is for that.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was listened to a great interview yesterday with what
Speaker 3: let me find his name, because I'm a fan.
Speaker 4: I've been a fan of his for years, Ken Pollack.
Speaker 4: He was in.
Speaker 3: CIA, NSA, all those different kind of things in different administrations,
Speaker 3: and I've been reading this stuff and watching m be
Speaker 3: interviewed for years in a variety of topics. And he
Speaker 3: confirmed when I asked that, Yeah, there almost has to
Speaker 3: be a fair amount of human intelligence in Iran for
Speaker 3: Israel to have pulled off what they've pulled off.
Speaker 4: So they have.
Speaker 3: Iranians who have turned because they don't like the regime,
Speaker 3: or they're just getting paid off, or any of the
Speaker 3: reasons anybody ever turns on their own country.
Speaker 1: Maybe my sister got beat to death in the jail
Speaker 1: for showing your hair on the street.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a big fan, right, So, and you
Speaker 3: know who how close that human intelligence is to the Iyatola?
Speaker 3: And could you know nail down where he is? We
Speaker 3: don't know. But he made the point that the reason
Speaker 3: we don't want to kill the Ayatola is we have
Speaker 3: been in a unique position for a lot of years
Speaker 3: to where we're pretty much the only country in the
Speaker 3: world that has the technology to just snuff people anywhere
Speaker 3: on the planet when we decide we need.
Speaker 1: To, and then we do.
Speaker 3: And you know, sometimes you and gets unhappy about it,
Speaker 3: or some countries make some noise, But Dan, whatever, what
Speaker 3: are you going to do?
Speaker 4: We're the United States.
Speaker 3: Soon, like very soon, lots of countries are going to
Speaker 3: have the technology to be able to strike somebody anywhere
Speaker 3: on the planet with a swarm of drones or whatever,
Speaker 3: and normalizing that is not going to be to our
Speaker 3: benefit when all of a sudden, and he used the
Speaker 3: example Pete Heggzeth is walking out of a restaurant and
Speaker 3: get hit with a couple of drones and take it out,
Speaker 3: and China says, well we had to because of blah
Speaker 3: blah blah, and the world gets mad about it.
Speaker 4: But what are you gonna do? The United States has
Speaker 4: been doing it for years.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, and then never ending tit for tat assassinations, right,
Speaker 1: Doc Syndrone, Huh.
Speaker 3: I'm not against any of this, but we have been
Speaker 3: in a unique situation where you know, I never can
Speaker 3: pronounce his right name, right, Solomani, the the Iranian general.
Speaker 1: We just take him out. He's a bad guy.
Speaker 3: The other the reason other countries don't do that, they can't.
Speaker 3: They just have never they haven't been able to.
Speaker 1: Well, we're very very restrained about it, Yes we are,
Speaker 1: but it's still a heck of a thing. Imagine living
Speaker 1: in a country where somebody just all of a sudden
Speaker 1: can get vaporized by China or Russia or North Korea
Speaker 1: or whoever thinks that they're evil. Yikes, And then you
Speaker 1: got the murders of those poor legislators in Minneapolis. Who's
Speaker 1: to say, or Minnesota, who's to say? It will just
Speaker 1: be malevolent foreign actors that'll, you know, hop on the
Speaker 1: I don't like him. I'm gonna rub him out train.
Speaker 3: Yeah so, I don't know if I believe that or
Speaker 3: not in this case, that that's a good reason to
Speaker 3: not take out the iyatola or if any that's on
Speaker 3: anybody's mind.
Speaker 1: But man, every day I'm reconvinced that the Internet and
Speaker 1: AI is like handing a chimp.
Speaker 3: Or loaded revolver. That'd be a bad, bad idea. That
Speaker 3: seems like a bad idea. I mean, I haven't realized
Speaker 3: my point. I haven't thought about it for more than
Speaker 3: a couple of seconds. But a chill advise that I'm
Speaker 3: thinking it through. Yeah, yeah, you could get unforeseen consequences
Speaker 3: out of that.
Speaker 4: A chimp with a loaded revolver.
Speaker 1: And maybe a machine gun would be a more apt metaphor, honestly,
Speaker 1: given the amount of damage that could be done quickly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Trump said, he said he's going to make his
Speaker 3: decision at the last second. He said, because things can
Speaker 3: change when it comes to war. You know, you got
Speaker 3: to wait till the last moment to make the decision.
Speaker 3: I don't have any idea if it's gonna he at
Speaker 3: some point you said yesterday, you know, could be soon,
Speaker 3: could be a week, maybe sooner.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: For some reason, I was pictured sooner than a week,
Speaker 3: just based on the fact that we closed the embassy
Speaker 3: in Tel Aviv for the next three days, you know,
Speaker 3: all the big meetings they've been having, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: I just I've been assuming it's going to happen like
Speaker 3: the day or tomorrow. That hint from the Israeli ambassador
Speaker 3: that you're going to see something on Thursday or Friday
Speaker 3: that makes the pager attack look like nothing. That's gotta
Speaker 3: be an overstatement, doesn't It almost has to be.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't sell the Israeli short.
Speaker 3: So every expert that I've listened to on a podcast
Speaker 3: or interview says this, The Israelis have to have something
Speaker 3: up their sleeve to deal with Fidah. There's no way
Speaker 3: they went into this without the ability to take out
Speaker 3: Fordoh and just counting on the fact that the United
Speaker 3: States would do it for him.
Speaker 4: There's just no way.
Speaker 3: They had to have some plan to you know, destroy
Speaker 3: it with a computer virus or get you know, commandos
Speaker 3: in there or something.
Speaker 1: There's got to be something going on there.
Speaker 3: So that's what we're probably going to see in the
Speaker 3: next couple of days or a week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I could see, you know, both kind of
Speaker 1: sort of being true in that an enormously expensive and
Speaker 1: in terms of Live's commando attack, special forces attack, I
Speaker 1: mean lots of boots on the ground over rights and
Speaker 1: in that period of time that was so costly. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could lose a lot of guys.
Speaker 3: But in so you would be hope in the US
Speaker 3: would step in Israel's mind, it would be worth it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, if the United States says we'll vomit for you,
Speaker 3: then you don't have.
Speaker 4: To do that, right, I guess is your point.
Speaker 3: Let's listen to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. We've had him
Speaker 3: on the show, kind of interested in what he has
Speaker 3: to say. Clip sixty five.
Speaker 5: There, Michael, keep in mind, this isn't just one facility
Speaker 5: the Iranian regime had spread. It just be portion across
Speaker 5: the country and specifically five separate locations, and we know
Speaker 5: where those locations are. We have pretty good intel. The
Speaker 5: Israelis have also shared intel with US, and so if
Speaker 5: there's a reason for US to make sure that they
Speaker 5: can never achieve a nuclear weapon, then that is in
Speaker 5: the United States interest.
Speaker 3: So if you're old enough to have lived through the
Speaker 3: whole build up to the Iraq war.
Speaker 4: He is still smart a little bit from the whole.
Speaker 3: We have solid evidence mobile chemical labs moving around the
Speaker 3: country making you know, all kinds of disastrous gases, and
Speaker 3: none of that turned out to be true. But the
Speaker 3: Senator goes on here with the intelligence saying.
Speaker 6: The US intelligence community is saying that Iran is close.
Speaker 5: I'm saying the assets that we have now, the information
Speaker 5: we're receiving that we're using with our partners in Israel,
Speaker 5: and the information we're receiving from the intelligence community is
Speaker 5: that they are very close. In March, the different the
Speaker 5: information was quite different. But who told the information has changed?
Speaker 6: Who told you that about the intelligence community? Because just
Speaker 6: the ranking Democrat on this ended Intelligence Committe, Mark Warner,
Speaker 6: said that his understanding was that the intelligence community's assessment
Speaker 6: was still today what Telsey Gabberd said, and Mark, well,
Speaker 6: I will tell you, and I can't. I've got to
Speaker 6: walk careful to how far I can go with this,
Speaker 6: because obviously, if I'm getting read in on programs, or
Speaker 6: if we're getting briefed in a in a classified briefing,
Speaker 6: there's very little information I can actually come out.
Speaker 1: I'm tony.
Speaker 5: The information that we've received will tell you that they
Speaker 5: are very, very close to it.
Speaker 3: Do you have concern about this, that it's being overstated
Speaker 3: how close they are to a nuclear weapon?
Speaker 4: And then I've got a response.
Speaker 1: Not a lot, just because I've been following the various
Speaker 1: estimates and projections through the years and the full range
Speaker 1: of them, from the very hawkish to the dubvish, and
Speaker 1: this does not seem It's like, you know, a poll
Speaker 1: comes out that's an outlier that you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: how does Trump all of a sudden, I have a
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent approval rating? Is it fifty two last week?
Speaker 1: And every other pole. This does not strike me as
Speaker 1: an outliner an outlier. Given everything that's happened, it seems
Speaker 1: like a logical point to have progressed too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have one more point I want to make about China.
Speaker 1: But if you're driving towards something, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: So my thinking is it might be being overstated. Now
Speaker 3: in Brimmer, among other people think that Bebe's doing this
Speaker 3: for political reasons, over emphasizing how close Iran is to
Speaker 3: get in a nuclear repon Bill Clinton, said it on
Speaker 3: The Daily Show Tuesday night, made no news. I didn't
Speaker 3: hear about it till today, So that shows you how
Speaker 3: much people respect Bill Clinton's opinion.
Speaker 1: At this point, I kind of feel like, but.
Speaker 3: My belief is yet it might be overstated. Maybe they
Speaker 3: aren't days away from a nuclear repid, maybe it's longer.
Speaker 3: What difference does it make. Ted Cruise's point to Tucker
Speaker 3: on that contentious interview was there is no disagreement anywhere
Speaker 3: in the world that Iran is trying to get a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon and going as fast as they can. There's
Speaker 3: never going to be a better time to take that
Speaker 3: program out. So whether they're a week away or six
Speaker 3: months away, since that's their intention and it's only going
Speaker 3: to get harder six months from now, why the hell
Speaker 3: wouldn't you.
Speaker 1: Do it now? That's where I right, Well, we need
Speaker 1: to take a break. And so my point about China,
Speaker 1: which believe it or not, is tied into this, will
Speaker 1: firmly establish my credentials as a cold warrior lunatic. But
Speaker 1: I think it's it's indisputably true, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you though you don't hear it anywhere else. Plus
Speaker 1: to your point, the famous Tulsea Gabbert. Iran is not
Speaker 1: building a nuclear weapon. That was half of her statement
Speaker 1: that day in Marsh. I don't know that we're going
Speaker 1: to play the other half as well.
Speaker 3: The Lakers got sold the most viable sports franchise in
Speaker 3: America or the world.
Speaker 1: Pretty billion bucks, pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: We'll talk a little bit about that, among other things
Speaker 3: on the waist to here.
Speaker 5: Keep in mind, this isn't just one facility. The Iranian
Speaker 5: regime has spread it just proportionately across the country and
Speaker 5: specifically five separate locations, and we know where those locations are.
Speaker 1: We have pretty good intel.
Speaker 5: The Israelis have also shared intel with us, and so
Speaker 5: if there's a reason for us to make sure that
Speaker 5: they can never achieve a nuclear weapon, then that is
Speaker 5: in the United States interest.
Speaker 1: So I've been reading about Israel's many year long effort
Speaker 1: to somehow prevent Iran from getting a nuke, having you know,
Speaker 1: the Iranians having vowed deathed Israel about a zillion times,
Speaker 1: and part of that has been identifying like Mark Wayne Mullen,
Speaker 1: their senator from Oklahoma, is talking about five significant nuclear
Speaker 1: facilities across the country, and is the Israelis have not
Speaker 1: only identified those five facilities, but like all the ancillary facilities,
Speaker 1: the support facilities, that sort of thing. And they've also
Speaker 1: identified who runs them, and who are the project managers,
Speaker 1: and who are the scientists in charge of X, Y
Speaker 1: and Z. That's how some of them have met their
Speaker 1: unfortunate ends recently and years ago. And they've been doing
Speaker 1: this over the course of many, many years, not knowing
Speaker 1: exactly when and how they would use that information. If
Speaker 1: you don't think that's precisely what China is doing right
Speaker 1: now to us, I was going to say, you're a fool,
Speaker 1: but maybe you're just busy with your job and don't
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time thinking about it. So, but
Speaker 1: that is unquestionably what China is doing right now to
Speaker 1: the United States. Why do I care that they collect
Speaker 1: all my data through TikTok and blah blah blah. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't matter for you, but they are to
Speaker 1: understand who everybody is, what they do, and how they
Speaker 1: can be exploited for the communist Chinese game mm same
Speaker 1: way the Israelis do. And if the poo ever hits
Speaker 1: the fan, there are gonna be a lot of people
Speaker 1: running around saying Oh my god, Oh my god, how
Speaker 1: did this happen? Jack? I know, go ahead, you're gonna
Speaker 1: make a point.
Speaker 3: When the S hits the fan? Where does that expression
Speaker 3: come from?
Speaker 4: Anybody?
Speaker 1: And know it's a great question.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask while you're talking chat GPT and find
Speaker 3: out because I am curious.
Speaker 1: I think Katie may be on the task. Yeah, Katie's
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 3: Because I can't say the word, so I got to
Speaker 3: turn off my microphone to say it to chat GPT
Speaker 3: in like you're there in a cattle yard and indoor
Speaker 3: cattle facility, and he got big old fans, exhaust, fans run,
Speaker 3: and sometimes the cows turn their line in.
Speaker 4: I got the answer, Okay.
Speaker 3: When the S hits the fan is a colorful idiom,
Speaker 3: meaning a situation suddenly comes chaotic, problematic, or disastrous. We
Speaker 3: knew that, yes, usually because a hidden issue is exposed
Speaker 3: or something goes terribly wrong. It likely dates back to
Speaker 3: the early twentieth century, first appearing in print around the
Speaker 3: nineteen thirties. UH The literal image feces hitting a spinning
Speaker 3: fan and splattering everywhere because is meant to convey a sudden,
Speaker 3: uncontrollable mess. Once something bad is let loose, with the
Speaker 3: earliest printed version seemed to be from the nineteen thirty
Speaker 3: nine novel Singing the Blues by Hal Dobie, in which
Speaker 3: he uses the phrase then the ess hit the fan.
Speaker 1: That was pretty clever, a little expression. Wow, it caught
Speaker 1: on like Shakespeare invented a lot of expressions we still
Speaker 1: use today. But way to go Harold Dobie.
Speaker 3: Similar phrases all hell broke loose, the wheels came off,
Speaker 3: it blew up in their faces.
Speaker 1: Favorite use of the term in Warren Zevan's Lawyer's Guns
Speaker 1: and Money.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, chat GBT is amazing. It's so much
Speaker 3: better than googling something. If you want an answer. Much
Speaker 3: on the way. If you missed a segment, get the
Speaker 3: podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: I was talking to the lieutenant. I said, I don't
Speaker 7: think in twenty three years, I've ever heard of anybody
Speaker 7: who managed somehow to get married to someone who wasn't
Speaker 7: present for a ceremony. I've talked to the victim and
Speaker 7: he's going through a significant process to try to have
Speaker 7: to fix this.
Speaker 3: At this point, someone who got married to someone who
Speaker 3: wasn't present at the ceremony.
Speaker 1: What does that mean a thirty six year old woman
Speaker 1: is being held on felony stalking charges in any bizarre case,
Speaker 1: she's in jail. Yeah. Where a wedding was held without
Speaker 1: the groom present and without his knowledge, well you can
Speaker 1: call it a wedding. Isn't that like saying I held
Speaker 1: a horse race without a horse being present or the
Speaker 1: horse is.
Speaker 3: Not I had if there was no hearses racing. I
Speaker 3: had a birthday party for somebody that doesn't like me anymore,
Speaker 3: and they weren't there, all right, Well anyway, right, I
Speaker 3: can have a birthday party for somebody seeing happy birthday,
Speaker 3: get a cake, wear a little hat, but if they're
Speaker 3: not there, I'm not sure it makes any difference.
Speaker 1: So the chief of police there in Beverly Hills, Texas,
Speaker 1: said his office was contacted by a forty two year
Speaker 1: old fellow who said he found a package from his
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend at his home, which included a copy of
Speaker 1: a marriage certificate showing that he was married even though
Speaker 1: he didn't marry her and thinks she's a nut job.
Speaker 4: So she did she falsefy his name or something?
Speaker 1: Well, the cop says, at first we were really considering
Speaker 1: that it maybe some forged documents. However, once we made
Speaker 1: contact with the reverend who ended up signing the actual
Speaker 1: ceremonies showing that they were unified, he basically, you know,
Speaker 1: solidified the fact that, yeah, the groom was not present
Speaker 1: when that occurred.
Speaker 3: You know, Joe and I learned this when we were
Speaker 3: we and we've conducted a couple of weddings, been the officiant,
Speaker 3: and we got our minister license online from the church.
Speaker 4: And you look confused there, Kittie.
Speaker 3: We got our minister license online from the Church Universal Life.
Speaker 3: And then so Joe and I were ministers and we
Speaker 3: did a couple of weddings and they were actually married,
Speaker 3: because who officiates your wedding has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: It's the wedding license you get at the courthouse and
Speaker 3: people signing off on that. That's what makes you legally married, not.
Speaker 1: And the officiant signs it saying yeah, the two were there.
Speaker 1: They exchallenged these vows. They're doing it willingly. And here's
Speaker 1: their first, middle and last names.
Speaker 3: But the minister or the disc jockeys or whoever who
Speaker 3: say I do I now pronounce you man and wife
Speaker 3: is not the legal thing there.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Chief Martin explained how this situation has been
Speaker 1: a rare occurrence and how they've been handling it. He's
Speaker 1: been going through the Family Code looking at sections on marriage.
Speaker 1: There was only one caveat that I could locate, which was,
Speaker 1: you know, active military overseas. Unable to make it, you
Speaker 1: still had to have a proxy stand in, and that
Speaker 1: also has to be part of all the licensing stuff
Speaker 1: is part of the stuff there. So the groom should
Speaker 1: have been there. A proxy wouldn't have worked without that caveat.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the minister ought to lose his fake internet license.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that anyway.
Speaker 4: She's a full on nut job.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, she's yeah, absolutely full Florida.
Speaker 4: How did you think this was gonna work? Lady?
Speaker 3: Do you think he was gonna get the word that
Speaker 3: you're too married and say, well, I guess I got
Speaker 3: no choice but to move in with her and love
Speaker 3: and cherish her for the rest of her life.
Speaker 4: What am I going to do?
Speaker 1: I think anybody listening or perhaps on the show, who
Speaker 1: has unfortunately gotten intertwined with a whackadoodle and realized it
Speaker 1: there's no reasoning necessary or that would be successful, and
Speaker 1: if what she was thinking is probably wacked doodleish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and a fair amount of short term thinking yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, and the governed by the emotions and not the intellect.
Speaker 1: So here are a handful of headlines all about the
Speaker 1: world of work in the economy and that sort of thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're going to all be kind of flowing in one direction.
Speaker 1: You might notice early several of them. Microsoft plans to
Speaker 1: cut thousands more employees companies. Layoffs are expected to start
Speaker 1: around the start of July and will target sales and
Speaker 1: other departments.
Speaker 4: Is it because of the two letter menus?
Speaker 1: Uh? Indirectly they're continuing their costly push into a.
Speaker 3: Two letter menuts I'm talking about of course? Is oh
Speaker 3: I was talking about VD oh, no, no, so much
Speaker 3: that they have to let people.
Speaker 1: Go stop it, stop it. Uh so Uh. Latest round
Speaker 1: layoffs come on top of the roughly six thousand rolls
Speaker 1: the company eliminated in May across product and software developer
Speaker 1: around the world and more to calm, companies ranging from
Speaker 1: retail the pharmaceuticals have been drawing up plans to consolidate positions,
Speaker 1: looking to do more with leaner staffs and relying on
Speaker 1: technology for additional tasks. Wow, including Amazon got a fair
Speaker 1: amount of attention. I want to come back to them
Speaker 1: in a minute.
Speaker 3: When does this, when does this like really really start
Speaker 3: to hit? Is like, I mean, we got a war
Speaker 3: thing going on right now, so obscures a lot of news.
Speaker 3: But when does this really start to hit? Is like
Speaker 3: the drip drip drip really starts to get to people
Speaker 3: when you're constantly hearing about big companies eliminating thousands of
Speaker 3: positions because of AI Like it could.
Speaker 4: Be later this summer of this fall.
Speaker 1: I was going to say twenty twenty six or twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven. If I had twenty twenty eight in a pool,
Speaker 1: I'd be pretty convinced I was going to miss out
Speaker 1: on the money. But you know, certainly could be completely wrong.
Speaker 1: Another headline, this one from the Wall Street Journal. Many
Speaker 1: I'm sorry more of us are putting in extra hours
Speaker 1: after the work day, employees days bleeding into the evening.
Speaker 4: Data shows I am not.
Speaker 1: Thanks to a growing load of meetings, emails, and yes,
Speaker 1: actual work. It's easy to imagine I think a lot
Speaker 1: of us do that. We do that. I get that
Speaker 1: you're making light as you making your wacky.
Speaker 4: Little jokes what you think.
Speaker 1: But anyway, according to Microsoft, which apparently still has a
Speaker 1: few people to analyze this data, because they can see
Speaker 1: when people log on all of the Microsoft products, and
Speaker 1: they say the number of people logging on after eight
Speaker 1: pm over the twelve months through February, we're up sixteen
Speaker 1: percent from the year before.
Speaker 3: Huh, So people have more work to do, or they're
Speaker 3: more worried about getting replaced by AI or what's going on.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would say yes to both. And they've also
Speaker 1: now two people are doing the jobs of three, or
Speaker 1: one is doing the job of two, or one is
Speaker 1: doing the job of four, depending on industry.
Speaker 4: You're in kidding.
Speaker 1: In a similar vein Americans, by the way, and poorly
Speaker 1: by the way, because it is it's a physical Newtonian
Speaker 1: impossibility for one person to now be doing three people's
Speaker 1: jobs and do them as well. So poorly is how
Speaker 1: they get done, unless you're some like state government agency
Speaker 1: where everybody's lazy and doesn't do any work. Not really,
Speaker 1: one chimp could do the job before. People talking about
Speaker 1: the real world, not the jip ran. Yeah, yeah, Americans
Speaker 1: are side hustling like we're in a recession. Goes to
Speaker 1: another story. The two job trend these days is about necessity,
Speaker 1: not pursuing a passion. The share of working Americans holding
Speaker 1: down multiple jobs rose to around five point four percent
Speaker 1: during the first five months of the year. We haven't
Speaker 1: seen that since the Great Crash of eight oh nine,
Speaker 1: according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hmmm, well that
Speaker 1: probably is.
Speaker 4: You know what follows.
Speaker 3: The news that we had last year in the last
Speaker 3: six months that people have maxed up their credit cards.
Speaker 3: You max out your credit cards and then you.
Speaker 1: Go get a side job to try to catch up
Speaker 1: a couple of shift seven to eleven. Yeah, holding one
Speaker 1: job at a time is on the way to becoming
Speaker 1: antiquated or a luxury for emerging generations. I think part
Speaker 1: of this is just that they're younger, but because it's funny,
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about this for years and years and years,
Speaker 1: but we both have had side hustles early in our
Speaker 1: radio cars.
Speaker 3: When I was twenty three, shortly after I got out
Speaker 3: of college, I had three jobs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I did all sorts of stuff. Anyway. Roughly
Speaker 1: four in ten millennials and gen zers have side jobs,
Speaker 1: according to new research by Deloitte. Again, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean the rate has increased a little bit.
Speaker 3: Actually, when you and I started working together when we
Speaker 3: were twenty five, good lord.
Speaker 1: I had such beautiful dreams, Katie transpirations and here you
Speaker 1: both had great hair.
Speaker 3: Thirty I never even did them. Thirty five years later,
Speaker 3: were still stuck. But I had a side job then,
Speaker 3: and you kept it. I was working on weekends at
Speaker 3: a country bar DJing because it paid really well.
Speaker 4: Yeah why not?
Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's not crazy to have a side job,
Speaker 1: especially pre kids.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: Right, Michael's on foot Finder. It's tasteful stuff, just feet
Speaker 1: feet erotica. Yeah, it's very nice. I had a club
Speaker 1: DJing job as well, except it was an oldies club
Speaker 1: and they would yell at me all the time because
Speaker 1: I liked the music from the seventies a lot better
Speaker 1: than like the fifties and sixties do op stuff, and
Speaker 1: I played too much of that. So yeah, oh well,
Speaker 1: not cut out for the gig. The biggest companies across
Speaker 1: America are cutting their workforces. That's another article. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: plenty of that. And then the real message Andy Jassey,
Speaker 1: the Amazon on chief, the real message he's sending to
Speaker 1: employees on AI. Amazon chief Andy Jasse had a chilling
Speaker 1: message for employees this week. AI is coming for your jobs.
Speaker 1: But things that Amazon are more nuanced than that, right,
Speaker 1: Stan Gallagher in the Wall Street Journal. The company is
Speaker 1: unique among its big tech peers. Amazon's business model requires
Speaker 1: a huge number of warehouse workers and delivery drivers. Company
Speaker 1: reported one point five to six million full time employees
Speaker 1: in its last quarterly filing, nearly seven times the total
Speaker 1: of the next largest megacap tech giant. You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of obvious, but I hadn't really thought about that
Speaker 1: that Amazon, among the tech giants, has seven times the
Speaker 1: number of employees of the other tech giants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that the Yeah, that should be pointed out more
Speaker 3: often as opposed to lumping them all together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually up forty three percent from three years ago.
Speaker 1: Blubb blah. But it's also the lowest of that efficiency
Speaker 1: measure of any tech company producing more than one hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars in sales. That's revenue per employee. So Jay
Speaker 1: Jasse's memo likely has the aim. More tech leaders are
Speaker 1: propagating the view that job security in the age of
Speaker 1: AI means learning to use it fast. Said in Vidio's
Speaker 1: chief executive quote, You're not going to lose your job
Speaker 1: to an AI, but you're going to lose your job
Speaker 1: to somebody who uses AI. Well that's a good thing
Speaker 1: to know, man.
Speaker 3: I had my greatest chat GPT experience yesterday. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at buying a bicycle, like a good bike for exercise,
Speaker 3: and I was comparing two different gear changing systems on
Speaker 3: two different used bikes I was looking at and I
Speaker 3: just I just thought, I just thought, it can't do this.
Speaker 4: This is too complicated and too obscure.
Speaker 3: But I just put in there this set of letters
Speaker 3: and numbers versus this set of let of numbers, letters
Speaker 3: and numbers for expensive gear setting chain systems for bicycles.
Speaker 1: And it printed.
Speaker 3: It gave me back in a second like a rundown
Speaker 3: from all the top cycling magazines, benefits, pros, cons, how
Speaker 3: hard to work on, what kind of.
Speaker 1: Writing you do, and everything. And it was amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean it was absolutely amazing, something at Google could
Speaker 3: have never ever done. And it did it instantly And
Speaker 3: it would have taken me hours to come up with
Speaker 3: that on my own, if it was even possible, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you can do that all the time with anything,
Speaker 3: and so yes, it's going to eliminate a lot of jobs.
Speaker 1: So one final note from mister Jasse There at Amazon.
Speaker 1: He echoed that belief in a memo to workers this week,
Speaker 1: imploring them to quote, be curious about AI. Those who
Speaker 1: do quote will be well positioned to have high impact
Speaker 1: and help us reinvent the company. He wrote. Yeah, By
Speaker 1: effectively threatening a pink slip to those who don't, Jassy
Speaker 1: at least guaranteed that the AI workshops at Amazon's offices
Speaker 1: will be Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think, at the very least, if you mess around
Speaker 3: with it like we have, like what I did last night,
Speaker 3: you realize, okay, it can do this sort of thing.
Speaker 4: And if I did that sort of thing, I'd.
Speaker 3: Realize I'm gonna lose that, and it would help you
Speaker 3: better prepare for what's coming, as opposed to you.
Speaker 4: Know, you're just going to ignore it and hope for
Speaker 4: the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember in my early days of employment, Gladys there,
Speaker 1: I was a fresh faced boy, great hair. As Katie
Speaker 1: helpfully pointed out, I didn't have great hair even when
Speaker 1: I was younger working at an ad agency. And the
Speaker 1: art director, who is just a gifted artist, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: he was so good. He recognized computer graphics and computer
Speaker 1: art coming on the scene. And he did not whine,
Speaker 1: he did not moan, he did not drink himself to death.
Speaker 1: He dove into it. He just became an enthusiast. He's
Speaker 1: not going to lose his job to computer graphics. He's
Speaker 1: going to lose his job to somebody who's good at
Speaker 1: computer graphics. So maybe that's the way to approach it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unless you're an accountant, like at a low level accountant,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna lose your job. Todai.
Speaker 4: Nobody's going to need you ever again for anything, even
Speaker 4: in your proson likes you.
Speaker 1: Either you're a bad person. Well, no, too far, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that's too much, too much, Okay, stay with us. Did
Speaker 1: you guys see this?
Speaker 8: Several states just sued the company twenty three and me
Speaker 8: to challenge its sale of more than fifteen million DNA profiles.
Speaker 8: The profiles even includes some people in the news, and
Speaker 8: you could tell why they don't want the info getting out.
Speaker 8: California Governor Gavin Newsom is forty percent German and sixty
Speaker 8: percent Golden bastl Next President Trump is one percent Irish
Speaker 8: and ninety nine percent.
Speaker 1: Nick rib.
Speaker 8: And Finally, Elon Musk one percent is the father there.
Speaker 1: You don't help this.
Speaker 3: Oh that was a pretty good premise. That was pretty
Speaker 3: good premise for a comedy bit comedy routine. My son
Speaker 3: and I are gonna go to the Dodgers game at
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium tomorrow night. And uh so, I was buying
Speaker 3: tickets on stubub and a parking pass thing came up
Speaker 3: them working my way toward the Lakers because the same
Speaker 3: guy that owns the Dodgers now owns.
Speaker 4: The Lakers and one of the biggest deals ever. More
Speaker 4: on that in a second.
Speaker 3: But parking pass, do you spend seventy six dollars from
Speaker 3: pretty close parking pass which they call the best value
Speaker 3: on stubub, But seventy six dollars is a lot?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Or do you spend nineteen dollars, which is the cheapest
Speaker 3: parking pass? But it's a thirty five minute walk? Thirty
Speaker 3: five minutes is quite a walk, perfect weather, I could
Speaker 3: use the exercises. You can tell by looking at me, Katie. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's well, you walk ahead, Katie. I vote for the walk.
Speaker 1: I don't already want it. There a mile and a half.
Speaker 4: I don't mind the walk there.
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about the walk back after I've had
Speaker 3: three chili cheese dogs and a churro and a milkshake.
Speaker 1: In the Denizens of the about the.
Speaker 3: The guys with the bicycles and the little carriages will
Speaker 3: be out and you can take one of those back
Speaker 3: to the car. That's not a bad idea. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: go with the cheapest. Always best to go with the cheapest. Anyway.
Speaker 4: The same guy owns the Dodgers now owns the Lakers, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Ten. He was a longtime minority owner of the Lakers,
Speaker 1: but he bought it from the Bus family for a
Speaker 1: little over ten billion dollars, making it the richest deal
Speaker 1: in sports history.
Speaker 4: Ten billion dollars.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He owns a whole bunch of different teams, A long
Speaker 3: list of teams. I don't even know some of the
Speaker 3: sports involved. Oh yeah, yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1: He owns the Dodgers in the la WNBA team, co
Speaker 1: owner of Chelsea and the English Premier Soccer League's also
Speaker 1: co owner of the newly formed CALLAC Formula One team.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, that's car racing there.
Speaker 1: You go really into the sports. I told Judy yesterday
Speaker 1: at dinner, I saw this headline said, should have saved
Speaker 1: dollar money and bought a sports franchise, But you would
Speaker 1: have said no, in you buy a house. Ownership matters
Speaker 1: in sports. Anybody who is a fan of a team
Speaker 1: that never seems to win. So, I wonder what this
Speaker 1: guy's dedication to. I mean, we've seen his dedication with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers to put together a team that wins it all.
Speaker 1: Is he going to do the same thing with the NBA,
Speaker 1: where you just throw pretty much unlimited money at the
Speaker 1: idea of let's have all the best players and freaking
Speaker 1: win this thing. Yeah, I wonder that's many have tried
Speaker 1: that in basketball. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, right
Speaker 1: having an all star team essentially, I suspect you'll give
Speaker 1: it a try, Yeah, give it a good try. In
Speaker 1: other Los Angeles news, there's quite a piece in the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal about how filmmaking is pretty much in
Speaker 1: everywhere but Hollywood. It's a smallish minority of productions, sound recording,
Speaker 1: anything that actually happens in the LA area. It's just
Speaker 1: to expensive. If La County were a country, economy would
Speaker 1: be among the world's twenty largest.
Speaker 4: Wow, just La County.
Speaker 1: But that economy is ailing payroll employment is one percent
Speaker 1: lower at the end of this year than twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: It's up five percent for the country as a whole.
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