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Speaker 5: Here's the funniest thing I thought that happened on the
Speaker 5: Saturday Night Live Go Open with the guy who does Trump.
Speaker 2: He was talking about.
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Speaker 5: the late great friends Flintstone.
Speaker 2: I thought that was so funny, eh boy, the late
Speaker 2: great Fred Flintstone.
Speaker 5: So I Southern News yesterday that they were going to
Speaker 5: have a voting session on the Big Beautiful Bill at
Speaker 5: ten o'clock Sunday night, and because it's the weekend, and
Speaker 5: I'm a normal human being.
Speaker 2: I didn't like.
Speaker 5: Take a second to look into that, because I thought,
Speaker 5: what the hell kind of a procedural deal is a
Speaker 5: Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But I just did
Speaker 5: see that the four holdouts went along with whatever and
Speaker 5: it passed, So there you go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the four holdouts went along with whatever is a
Speaker 4: pretty good description of it. I will be a bit
Speaker 4: more detailed. And this is the reason I'm disgusted and embittered.
Speaker 4: This is the most sausagey of sausage making. If you're
Speaker 4: familiar with the old reference to politics, here's your headline
Speaker 4: from the WAPO. I'm going to read you just a
Speaker 4: little bit because it's kind of revealing of at least
Speaker 4: a couple of things.
Speaker 2: Trump's tax and immigration.
Speaker 4: Bill clears Hurtle after late night vote to the House
Speaker 4: Budget Committee passed a massive tax and immigration package central
Speaker 4: President Trump's agenda late Sunday, overcoming opposition from hardline conservatives,
Speaker 4: overspending four fiscal conservatives, all deficit hawks aligned with the
Speaker 4: old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus, changed their vote to present,
Speaker 4: allowing the legislative monstrosity. I injected that package to be
Speaker 4: recommended favorably to the House by a vote of seventeen
Speaker 4: to sixteen, but their hesitance to vote for the One
Speaker 4: Big Beautiful Bill Act out of committee is a reminder
Speaker 4: that the far right flank of the Republican Conference remains skeptical.
Speaker 2: I think I see where you're going here. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, it could just be your typical WAHPO journalistic bias,
Speaker 4: although the WAPO is improved somewhat lately a little bit.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I think it's.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable with that there
Speaker 4: are only a handful of like lunatic hard liners who
Speaker 4: are against the following headlines. This is from the Richard
Speaker 4: Ruben writing in The Wall Street Journal. The stark math
Speaker 4: on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut the deficit.
Speaker 2: It grows the deficit.
Speaker 4: The Republican Party, with both Houses of Congress and the
Speaker 4: White House, are going to grow the deficit. It's undeniable.
Speaker 4: Next headline, National Review, Republicans should stay the course on
Speaker 4: reducing medicaid spending. They're not going to. They're running in
Speaker 4: the other direction, partly because the incredibly smart calculating what
Speaker 4: is he up to? Josh Cawley of Missouri is all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, this is the guy now.
Speaker 2: Who led the charge to repeal Obamacare.
Speaker 4: He's now out schumering Schumer, saying that the party's Wall
Speaker 4: Street wing, a noisy contingent of corporist Republicans want to
Speaker 4: slash health insurance for the working poor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we mentioned that.
Speaker 5: On Friday, he wrote that op ed piece that the
Speaker 5: Republicans need to back off cutting Medicare.
Speaker 4: Any Well, it's a reform of Medicaid. Any reforms are
Speaker 4: a hidden tax on working poor people. And this is
Speaker 4: and he's referring to a thirty five dollars copay for
Speaker 4: able bodied adults covered by Obamacare Medicaid for a visit
Speaker 4: to the doctor. Thirty five dollars copay is some sort
Speaker 4: of hidden tax on working poor people.
Speaker 5: And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
Speaker 5: party of the working class, and they feel like they
Speaker 5: got enough a working class that are on Medicaid that
Speaker 5: they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it.
Speaker 4: And a yeah, now the party of pandering to and
Speaker 4: writing checks to people to win their votes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was going to say that it's interesting they
Speaker 5: call these people ultra conservative of right wing, when not
Speaker 5: very many years ago you would have been the center
Speaker 5: of the Republican Party. I mean that would have been
Speaker 5: I mean as like what the Republican Party was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 5: It was, it was a term you would have used
Speaker 5: to define the party. Fact, it was so intrinsic to
Speaker 5: the Republican Party. You'd feel silly even repeating what you
Speaker 5: just repeated, right that there's no need fisically conservative. But
Speaker 5: I suppose in reality, given where most of the party is,
Speaker 5: they are ultra right wing or ultra conservative because the
Speaker 5: bulk of the party doesn't care apparently apparently not voters.
Speaker 4: So spending your children, grandchildren into tax and spend oblivion.
Speaker 5: Well all right, Well, this story got repeated a lot
Speaker 5: over the weekend that we got downgraded on one of
Speaker 5: our credit scores by one of the major organizations that does.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing.
Speaker 5: And uh, over the weekend it kind of got put
Speaker 5: out there that it was like a Trump thing because
Speaker 5: of tariffs or whatever. It was basically around the fact
Speaker 5: that our debt is just so high. It's just like
Speaker 5: this would happen to you if you go to the
Speaker 5: bank and they take a look at your well you've
Speaker 5: got with your car payments. Now you bought like eight
Speaker 5: cars and two houses, and you're just overmaxed.
Speaker 4: So you have eighty thousand dollars in credit card bills
Speaker 4: and you only make ninety a year, right, right, So
Speaker 4: they just dong Grady because you just spend more than
Speaker 4: you make.
Speaker 2: That's what happened. That didn't happen just in the last
Speaker 2: one hundred days under Trump. We've been building this for
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 4: And the final reason I am completely embittered about the
Speaker 4: Republican Party in politics and America and democracy and life
Speaker 4: on Earth is the fact that, and it's a two
Speaker 4: part horror show, Part number one is that there are
Speaker 4: a bunch of swing district Republicans from big blue states
Speaker 4: California and New York most notably, who are not only
Speaker 4: trying to defend the idea of the salt deduction this
Speaker 4: state and local tax deduction, they want to raise it
Speaker 4: from ten thousand dollars to at least thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 4: and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning if you live in
Speaker 4: a tax and spend lunatic state like say California, all
Speaker 4: of those incredibly high taxes you're paying, you can deduct
Speaker 4: from your federal tax return. So the other states will
Speaker 4: subsidize the tax and spend lunacy of New York and California.
Speaker 5: So my brothers in Kansas pay some of my taxes
Speaker 5: because I live in California.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get a giant subsidy from the other states.
Speaker 4: You pay a lower federal tax rate, significantly lower depending
Speaker 4: on you know, how much money you make than folks
Speaker 4: in fiscally responsible states, and is indefensible morally. It's indefensible
Speaker 4: as for Republican reason, not the party, but the idea
Speaker 4: of we have a federal system than states, and the
Speaker 4: states can do what they want, and they should.
Speaker 2: Do what they want.
Speaker 4: If you're fine, if Massachusetts wants to have a sixty
Speaker 4: five percent income tax, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm not living there, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: But then to transfer that profligacy to the other states
Speaker 4: is it's a horror. And as a conservative slash Republican,
Speaker 4: he says, trying not to vomit because of my embitteredness,
Speaker 4: the idea that that is a plank of the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: I'm done.
Speaker 5: It's it's hard to swallow. I mean, you know, it
Speaker 5: would help Joe and I if this happens financially. But
Speaker 5: it's awful, absolutely awful.
Speaker 2: You I mean, you can't defend it.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's it's I am horrified. I don't care
Speaker 4: how much it would benefit me. God bless me. I
Speaker 4: have principles. It's really held me back in life. Jack too.
Speaker 4: I just I'm done. I'm done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's well.
Speaker 5: Like I said last week, Sarah Isger of The Dispatch,
Speaker 5: I heard her on a podcast They're having this discussion
Speaker 5: about party, and she said, there are no political parties.
Speaker 2: What are we talking about here? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I need to seek that out because I think she
Speaker 4: nailed absolutely, one hundred percent. There are no political parties.
Speaker 4: There's just whoever emerges as the candidate, cycle by cycle,
Speaker 4: and then whatever they believe, the party goes along with.
Speaker 4: And it's true on both sides. So the idea that
Speaker 4: there are parties that stand for something, we.
Speaker 2: Need to all move past that.
Speaker 4: From my hero hl Menken, every election is a sort
Speaker 4: of advanced auction sale of stolen goods. That's always been true.
Speaker 4: There was a time when a certain party had certain
Speaker 4: principles that I admired.
Speaker 2: Do you have time has passed. You know what.
Speaker 4: My high school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my wife of forty
Speaker 4: years is. When she's not turning tricks, she's killing people
Speaker 4: for the mob. Okay, she's not a woman, I felt.
Speaker 4: This is by the way, fictional illustration has nothing to
Speaker 4: do with my beloved bride Judith.
Speaker 2: She's not the person she was. It's you can forget it.
Speaker 2: It's over, so move on. Get a get an Ai.
Speaker 4: Girlfriend like a normal person and a love bod or
Speaker 4: something I girlfriend like a normal prison.
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Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show. Yet another one of these?
Speaker 2: Do they run this quarterly?
Speaker 4: Is it some sort of requirement warning issue to anyone
Speaker 4: using this smiley face emoji to older people not gen Z.
Speaker 4: A smile face means you're conveying that you're happy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but gen Z takes this grinning face to convey sarcasm
Speaker 4: or irony.
Speaker 2: And then it has the inevitable twenty three year old employee.
Speaker 4: Who says, at first I thought my coarchers were being
Speaker 4: called and sarcastic to me, and then I realized when
Speaker 4: they send a thumbs up, they really mean thumbs up
Speaker 4: because he is a sarcastically and the tone of the
Speaker 4: article is always therefore, you're you. Older people really ought
Speaker 4: to be careful in a.
Speaker 5: Finger and they should switch to the way we do
Speaker 5: it as opposed the other way around.
Speaker 4: Yes, I would say to Hovey's at BESHI, twenty one
Speaker 4: year old intern, excuse me, I run this place.
Speaker 2: I own this place. People like me run the world.
Speaker 2: So you figured out.
Speaker 5: My son sends me the emoji with the tears streaming
Speaker 5: down the face. Yes, at what seemed to me inappropriate times,
Speaker 5: it seems to mean something different to freshmen in high
Speaker 5: school than all the other adults who ever send me
Speaker 5: the emoji with tears streaming down the face?
Speaker 2: Yes, k, Katie, you're not old and bitter. Well, don't
Speaker 2: go that better.
Speaker 6: But several of my younger friends send me that, which
Speaker 6: usually would mean like you're crying legitimately, like.
Speaker 5: You were really touched by something, or you know, my
Speaker 5: dog just died, or I heard about your mom or whatever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it means something's hilarious now, like you're crying, you're
Speaker 6: laughing song.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's what I kind of picked up on. I thought,
Speaker 5: this is highly inappropriate. Does this mean you're laughing?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I cracked. You have a laughing till you're crying,
Speaker 2: right they do.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I cracked a joke to one of my girlfriends and
Speaker 6: I sent her that and she sent me one of
Speaker 6: those back, and I was like, did something just happen?
Speaker 2: What's wrong? She's like, that's exactly that what I have.
Speaker 2: And I thought, oh, geez, I hurt somebody's feelings.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exact same thing came over me. I was like,
Speaker 6: what did I do? No, that's just their laughing face.
Speaker 6: Now are we talking about the tears streaming down?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: See, we used that in my family a lot. Like
Speaker 4: I didn't get the wordle So you're really upset.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're you're you're you're you're being sarcastic about
Speaker 5: how upset you are. Yes, exaggerating, Yeah, but it's kind
Speaker 5: of the opposite meaning for my son.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I get it. I'm laughing so hard I'm
Speaker 2: even though they've got one of those already.
Speaker 4: My favorite texting story of all time, and it will
Speaker 4: be for the rest of my life, was the woman
Speaker 4: who said I'm sorry I didn't get back to you
Speaker 4: my mom just passed away, and her friend replied lol,
Speaker 4: thinking it meant lots of love.
Speaker 2: To me. They no longer speak.
Speaker 4: And I'm lolling now is the ironic concluded?
Speaker 2: That's sorry anyway?
Speaker 5: So to get like this, I feel like lol is
Speaker 5: like charity laugh or you know what is that term
Speaker 5: where you you laugh? You know, somebody says simple sympathy
Speaker 5: laugh at this point and I and then I don't
Speaker 5: know how to respond with a that actually is freaking funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I don't know.
Speaker 5: I usually write out because I don't use emojis, because
Speaker 5: I'm a grown up. I usually write out. I actually
Speaker 5: laughed out loud at that. That was very funny, like
Speaker 5: that much it's something really long and tedious.
Speaker 6: You're such a boomer, or you just send the word
Speaker 6: funny with zero punctuations, so you can't tell if you're
Speaker 6: being serious or not.
Speaker 2: I have done that.
Speaker 4: I will frequently respond ha because I was laughing lots
Speaker 4: of oz. Yeah. So, but there's more linguists studying emojis. Emoji,
Speaker 4: I think I'm supposed to say I'm not Japanese, all right.
Speaker 4: Have also pointed out that the symbols new meetings can
Speaker 4: often emerge from slang that older users might not be
Speaker 4: aware of. For example, older social media users might see
Speaker 4: the skull emoji as a literal symbol of death or
Speaker 4: a sign that someone is figuratively dead, isn't dead, tired
Speaker 4: or dead to me, whatever, But for the younger users,
Speaker 4: the skull is used to say I'm dead, which means
Speaker 4: that they found something hilarious and have died laughing.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, the skull is that was really funny. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna hit somebody I can. I can think of people
Speaker 5: i'd hit with that today would be very confused.
Speaker 4: While the sparkle emoji is frequently someone being sarcastic about
Speaker 4: how something, how good something is, and too much sarcasm.
Speaker 4: But here's the part I found really interesting.
Speaker 5: So I send to like. If somebody says, hey, I
Speaker 5: got that promotion at work, I respond with an eggplant
Speaker 5: and then sprays of water.
Speaker 2: Is that the proper thing? Good Lord? Yes? Yes, do that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's perfect, Oh my god. Or if you give
Speaker 4: a thumbs up and a sparkle, they'll think you're mocking them,
Speaker 4: which is again, we run the world. We old people
Speaker 4: run the world. You adapt us. But is your youngster
Speaker 4: texting about cannabis, for instance, sometimes known as pot or marijuana.
Speaker 4: The shamrock, the leaf, the maple leaf, the lemon, the grape,
Speaker 4: the watermelon, the strawberry, the cherry, the pineapple, the dog face,
Speaker 4: the candy, the cake, the ice cream cone, and the
Speaker 4: cookie can all be references to cannabis.
Speaker 2: Because I understand it.
Speaker 5: The egg plant is the traditional vegetable of success, and
Speaker 5: so if somebody has some good news.
Speaker 2: Keep believe in that, jack and use it frequently. Jack.
Speaker 4: These emoji can be references to cocaine, a rocket ship,
Speaker 4: a fish, a gas pump, a snowman or a snowflake.
Speaker 2: They're all sorts of drugs.
Speaker 4: Uh, sexting the peach which looks like God forgive me
Speaker 4: a woman's hind end, or the egg plant, the water
Speaker 4: you mentioned, or cherries.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 6: I was embarrassingly baffled the other day when I got
Speaker 6: a text message from a friend that said kiss my
Speaker 6: and then there was a peach emoji, and I'm going,
Speaker 6: this is my peach?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? I saw somebody with a cherries
Speaker 2: tattoo on them? What does that mean? You, Katie? Is
Speaker 2: that a girl? What's that mean? Women.
Speaker 6: Cherries were trendy late nineties early two thousands, But I
Speaker 6: don't know if.
Speaker 2: That meaning what was the message A delicious fruit? It
Speaker 2: was just a cute pattern.
Speaker 5: Okay, So okay, it didn't mean anything, all right, that's fine,
Speaker 5: doesn't need.
Speaker 2: To We're looking it up.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 6: Often associated with sensuality, feminine power, innocence, and youth.
Speaker 2: Okay, According to an Instagram post, that's a stupid tattoo.
Speaker 2: Don't get that and if you haven't, get it removed.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and the Armstrong and Getty shar So.
Speaker 4: Speaking of technology a different sort than an AI story,
Speaker 4: I am completely convinced that mankind has invented its doom.
Speaker 4: I'm just there's nothing I can do about it, so
Speaker 4: I try not to worry about it. I hope my
Speaker 4: kids are smart and savvy enough to, you know, to
Speaker 4: have happy lives in spite of the coming.
Speaker 2: AI apocalypse.
Speaker 5: If nothing else, the biggest change in the shortest amount
Speaker 5: of time that's probably ever happened, which would be whip sawing,
Speaker 5: even if it turns out okay.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: Alicia Finley, who writes for the Journal opinion page, who
Speaker 4: I think is just terrific one of my favorite writers.
Speaker 2: Has a piece today. I think it is recently.
Speaker 4: Analyzing what people are saying so far, including the CEO
Speaker 4: of Amazon about AI with that employee memo that he
Speaker 4: sent out, the key line of which was, we will
Speaker 4: need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are
Speaker 4: being done today and more people doing other types of jobs,
Speaker 4: and that the people who will keep their jobs are
Speaker 4: people who learn how to use AI effectively. And he
Speaker 4: explained that AI advances me and employees will do less
Speaker 4: wrote work and more thinking strategically, which sounds really super great.
Speaker 4: And all this will require high level of cognition than
Speaker 4: does the rote work many white color employees now do.
Speaker 4: But as AI is getting smarter, I'll start quoting Alicia. Now,
Speaker 4: Younger college grads may be getting dumber. Like early versions
Speaker 4: of chat GBT. They can regurgitate information and ideas, but
Speaker 4: struggle to come up with novel insights or analyze issues
Speaker 4: from different directions. And then she goes in an interesting direction,
Speaker 4: and this is the fruit of the tree of knowledge stuff.
Speaker 4: We don't know what we're doing to ourselves, she mentions.
Speaker 4: The brain continues to develop and mature into one's mid twenties.
Speaker 4: Some of us longer than that, but like a muscle,
Speaker 4: it needs to be exercise, stimulated, and challenged to grow stronger.
Speaker 4: Technology and especially AI, can stunt this development by doing
Speaker 4: the mental work that builds the brain's version of a
Speaker 4: computer cloud, a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.
Speaker 2: Cool. Yeah, yeah, cool, But.
Speaker 4: Growing research shows and I remember we talked about this
Speaker 4: a while ago. We had a debate about cursive cursive writing,
Speaker 4: which seems silly and unnecessary in handwriting in general. But
Speaker 4: then these studies have come out that show that handwriting
Speaker 4: engages parts of your brain that play a crucial role
Speaker 4: in learning and help children with word and letter recognition.
Speaker 4: But more than that, taking notes by hand also promotes
Speaker 4: memory development by forcing you to synthesize and prioritize information.
Speaker 4: When you plunk away on a keyboard. On the other hand,
Speaker 4: information can go as it were, in one ear and
Speaker 4: out the other. And then they study the electrical activity
Speaker 4: of university students during the activities of handwriting and typing,
Speaker 4: and the way their brains worked were very, very different.
Speaker 4: Now that's just kind of a side point to the
Speaker 4: greater point, which is the dopey grunt work that now
Speaker 4: the computers do do or the AI can do is
Speaker 4: the very dope y grunt work that give builds the
Speaker 4: neural muscles it takes to do the more advanced stuff.
Speaker 4: You can't skip to bench pressing two hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: pounds having not bench pressed one hundred pounds ever, neurologically speaking.
Speaker 5: That's really interesting. I was just thinking in my own life,
Speaker 5: I do some I hate the term journaling. I don't know,
Speaker 5: it sounds so woosy. My son would say gay and
Speaker 5: so at all is high school friends, including gay ones.
Speaker 2: But funny, isn't it. Uh?
Speaker 5: But anyway, writing about things that are you know, difficult
Speaker 5: to try to get them out or figure them out.
Speaker 5: But I do it a lot, typing into my notes
Speaker 5: and my phone, and you're you're saying that doesn't count,
Speaker 5: that that doesn't work right. Interesting way, I mean to
Speaker 5: be completely wasting my time. I hate handwriting. I did
Speaker 5: say I'm left handed, I have short fingers. I just
Speaker 5: the physical act of handwriting.
Speaker 2: I hate.
Speaker 5: It's just physically that's funny. My my my son who's
Speaker 5: left handed, is that way. He just he just he
Speaker 5: almost says it hurts. It's just like it's physically awful
Speaker 5: for him to do.
Speaker 4: It does get kind of crampy because you're taught that
Speaker 4: your letters ought to have a certain slam slant. And
Speaker 4: if you're left handed you have to like form a
Speaker 4: hook with your hand, and right.
Speaker 2: Sideways you're some sort of degenerates. We all, we all
Speaker 2: know it. Well, you know, if you don't know this,
Speaker 2: you should.
Speaker 4: The The word sinister is Latin for left handed for
Speaker 4: good reason, right, and what's the uh the uh the
Speaker 4: equivalent right hand and it's like noble or something. Anyway,
Speaker 4: that's why I'm a Satanist. Anyway, moving along, then you
Speaker 4: get well, I kind of made the point already. But
Speaker 4: if you don't do the stuff to work up to
Speaker 4: the advanced stuff, you'll never be able to do the
Speaker 4: advanced stuff.
Speaker 2: And college and high.
Speaker 4: School students are increasingly using large language models like chat
Speaker 4: GPT to write papers, perform mathematical proofs, and create computer code.
Speaker 4: That means they don't learn to think through, express or
Speaker 4: defend ideas. And Aha moments occur spontaneously within your brain
Speaker 4: with a sudden burst of high frequency electrical activity.
Speaker 2: When the brain connects seemingly unrelated concepts, it finds the
Speaker 2: connections and sees patterns and then it says, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: and we're denying ourselves all of the grunt work to
Speaker 2: get there. Wow. That's interesting.
Speaker 5: I've had that happen with music before, with after years
Speaker 5: of doing well. It's like learning scales and then something else,
Speaker 5: and then somehow it all comes together at one point. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it makes sense so that it can happen with this
Speaker 5: other stuff. But we're stitch in the first part. We're
Speaker 5: skipping the scale.
Speaker 4: RNE as a quick aside, and I realized this sounds
Speaker 4: kind of silly and makes it clear that I'm an
Speaker 4: old bastard at this point.
Speaker 2: But Judy and I are really into doing crossword puzzles.
Speaker 4: We do like the hard New York times like Friday
Speaker 4: through Sunday crossword puzzles, and I will and we do
Speaker 4: him as a team, which is fun and brings us together.
Speaker 4: But I will be utterly stumped. Saturday's the hardest one.
Speaker 4: Sunday's kind of a mind blank because often there's a
Speaker 4: trick within the puzzle.
Speaker 2: But Saturday is really hard.
Speaker 4: And often I will be completely stumped, and I will
Speaker 4: go away for an hour two hours. I will come
Speaker 4: back and I will crush it. What happened there? That's
Speaker 4: worth thinking about.
Speaker 5: How I've been utilizing that my whole life, like writing
Speaker 5: papers for school.
Speaker 2: I always knew that.
Speaker 5: If I thought about it, thought about it, thought about it,
Speaker 5: couldn't come.
Speaker 2: Up with it. If I slept, I'd wake up and
Speaker 2: I'd have it. I would have it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, and I won't tell you what does happen.
Speaker 5: I'm reading this book right now. It's a Graham Green.
Speaker 5: He's a fantastic author. I've never written his stuff, but
Speaker 5: he's in this novel I'm reading right now about an author.
Speaker 5: So he's talking about himself basically. But how writing is
Speaker 5: something that happens while you're not thinking about it. He says,
Speaker 5: you're gathering all this information, coming up with plot ideas,
Speaker 5: and then the writing happens when you're not thinking about it,
Speaker 5: and then it comes out on the page. So it's
Speaker 5: just exactly what you're describing. It's your brain is doing
Speaker 5: something while you're asleep or occupied doing something else, synthesizes
Speaker 5: it and then it comes out.
Speaker 4: Or and this is a bit of a quibble, and
Speaker 4: this is what I was about to say. I'm not
Speaker 4: going to lecture you, but I now discipline myself harshly
Speaker 4: using a lash to be bored a certain amount of
Speaker 4: the day, to be doing nothing, reading nothing, looking at
Speaker 4: nothing but the trees and the sky and my dog
Speaker 4: peeing over there. I am committed to being not occupied
Speaker 4: a certain chunk of the day.
Speaker 5: So you're like Putty Elaine's boyfriend sitting on the plane
Speaker 5: just staring at the seatback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine. Do you want something to read? No,
Speaker 2: I'm a right. Oh anything, crossword puzzle, I'm fine. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I sat next to a lady like that a few
Speaker 4: months ago. I think I talked about it on the air,
Speaker 4: and it was freaking me out. It was weird me out.
Speaker 4: I was like, is she going to take over the
Speaker 4: plane or kill me or explode into a rage or
Speaker 4: this is not natural shoes are going to catch on fire.
Speaker 4: But take time to daydreams. Seriously.
Speaker 5: Earlier, we were talking about the new Tesla robotaxis.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 5: Paused in an intersection in Austin or something like that
Speaker 5: and made some news. But I would see the automated
Speaker 5: driving on the Tesla, which kind of fits into the
Speaker 5: AI stuff, is so much better than it was three
Speaker 5: years ago when I first started writing Tesla.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's night and day, and it's so good now.
Speaker 5: And I never thought I would have any interest in
Speaker 5: using automated driving, similar to the first time I ever
Speaker 5: saw somebody texting and learned about it, I thought, why
Speaker 5: would anybody do that? And then obviously we all text constantly.
Speaker 5: Now I use automated driving all the time. When I
Speaker 5: drive my vehicle that doesn't have it, it seems like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is kind of a pain in the ass, So convert,
Speaker 5: don't well, don't pretend you know what things you'll like,
Speaker 5: and you don't. I know in my own life, I've
Speaker 5: been proven wrong multiple times.
Speaker 4: So the NFL is about to change thanks to AI,
Speaker 4: and they in the Athletic they're talking about how coaches
Speaker 4: are already using AI to analyze tendencies of opponents and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. They use the example of there's
Speaker 4: a wide gulf between the math used to optimize fourth
Speaker 4: down decisions and a voiced AI agent telling you to
Speaker 4: look out for the weak side linebacker while you're sitting
Speaker 4: alone in your office on a Tuesday night. This assistant
Speaker 4: coach who's the offensive coordinator for the Falcon says, I'm
Speaker 4: getting a little scared.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I could see where this would go. Very quickly,
Speaker 5: and there are I mean, without even thinking of reading
Speaker 5: with this or thinking about it, I just AI could
Speaker 5: crunch the last five years of all the plays. Say,
Speaker 5: look eighty seven percent of the time, the other team
Speaker 5: is going to do this in this situation, and you
Speaker 5: react to it, and then that will be cool up
Speaker 5: until the point that it's just AI against AI. You know,
Speaker 5: a season from now.
Speaker 4: Your computer telling you what play to run in their
Speaker 4: computer are telling them how to counter it. Having a
Speaker 4: pretty good idea what's coming. And they're talking about coaches
Speaker 4: being replaced entirely, but he just already have. This guy
Speaker 4: was hired by the Raiders as the head coach research specialist,
Speaker 4: but the job may be better understood as AI coordinator.
Speaker 4: He uses AI every single day. He's clearly going to happen.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I hadn't thought about this before.
Speaker 4: This is clearly going to happen.
Speaker 5: You got super smart people who study, like like maniacs
Speaker 5: for this stuff to make decisions in the like forty
Speaker 5: five seconds you have before between plays or whatever it is,
Speaker 5: and now AI.
Speaker 2: Is going to be able to do it. Let me
Speaker 2: read you some of this.
Speaker 4: I feel pretty confident saying that some team is going
Speaker 4: to win a Super Bowl in the next few years
Speaker 4: utilizing AI at a very high rate, significantly higher than
Speaker 4: it's ever been used before, said this coach. It's really
Speaker 4: an opportunity to differentiate your differentiate yourself from a team
Speaker 4: that might have a more talented roster.
Speaker 2: Better coaches or whatnot.
Speaker 4: Ruin, there's just going to be more and more separation
Speaker 4: with teams that are have bought in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they might have to outlaw that. I mean because
Speaker 5: it's similar to when computers got better at chess than
Speaker 5: humans and people thought that'd be the end of chess
Speaker 5: or whatever. No, people still like watching the best humans
Speaker 5: play each other, even though they're a computer out there
Speaker 5: could beat either.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 5: Who cares? You still want to know who the best
Speaker 5: human is. I think knowing who the best humans are
Speaker 5: at guessing the plays is more fun than two computers
Speaker 5: battling it out right.
Speaker 4: It'll be so interesting to see how the league and
Speaker 4: the rules adapt to this and how people will then cheat.
Speaker 4: Because they're talking about there are systems that can watch
Speaker 4: game film, sure of multiple teams, multiple games, analyze it
Speaker 4: come up with the probabilities. The next layer, they say
Speaker 4: is understanding personnel as well, because, as they put it,
Speaker 4: Fourth and One with Mike Vick and Algae Crumpler looks
Speaker 4: a lot different than Fourth and One with Kirk Cousins
Speaker 4: and Kyle Bitts.
Speaker 2: Hey, I fear for that. Hey, I will figure that
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Speaker 7: Eight months after the election, Democrats are still trying to
Speaker 7: dig themselves out of a hole, but a new poll
Speaker 7: from the Wall Street Journal paints a bleak picture. It
Speaker 7: reveals only thirty three percent of registered voters today view
Speaker 7: Democrats favorably, while a staggering sixty three percent see them negatively.
Speaker 7: That's the worst rating from the same poll since nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 4: found this next segment pretty interesting though.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Aisha. We're in the doghouse yet again.
Speaker 5: We certainly do have a problem, and it's a messaging problem.
Speaker 7: If messaging is the problem, the new poll signals Democrats
Speaker 7: attacking President Trump isn't working at least yet. That's because
Speaker 7: even when more voters disapprove of Trump on issues like inflation,
Speaker 7: they still trust congressional Republicans more than Democrats to handle
Speaker 7: that issue by a whopping ten points. On immigration, the
Speaker 7: same thing, More voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the matter,
Speaker 7: but Republicans once again are trusted more than Democrats to
Speaker 7: manage it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I believe this analysis that people
Speaker 5: have been going with. I think it's the crazy factor.
Speaker 5: It's the uh, I don't know. You've got a friend
Speaker 5: who does a few things that are just so crazy
Speaker 5: you don't trust his judgment on anything else.
Speaker 2: I think that's what's driving it. It's not that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Democrats view of the economy is specifically blah
Speaker 5: blah blah.
Speaker 9: It said, you're the people that want boys plan girls.
Speaker 9: You're the people that want me to say LATINEX. You're
Speaker 9: the people that think we shouldn't have police. I don't
Speaker 9: trust you on anything. I think it's the crazy factor.
Speaker 9: Yeah you put a grown man in my little girl's
Speaker 9: locker room. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: But to her point though, and it's not in contrast
Speaker 4: to your point, it's agreeing with it. So like on
Speaker 4: inflation and rising prices, Trump is eleven points underwater, okay,
Speaker 4: but the Republicans in general are ten points to the positive.
Speaker 4: So what Trump's doing right now on immigration he sees
Speaker 4: just three points underwater, but generally speaking Republicans that are
Speaker 4: Democrats seventeen.
Speaker 2: Point advantage for Republicans.
Speaker 4: So there are momentarily momentary quibbles with the way Trump
Speaker 4: is approaching this, that or the other, But in terms
Speaker 4: of general philosophy that I don't care. I want the Republicans,
Speaker 4: which again I don't think disagrees with your point.
Speaker 2: I think it agrees with it.
Speaker 4: Why do they have that percent or why do they
Speaker 4: lean so strongly that way?
Speaker 2: Because they think that Democrats have lost their effing mind.
Speaker 4: Let's see, So the Democrats are thirty three percent favorable,
Speaker 4: sixty three percent unfavorable, far weaker assessment than voters give
Speaker 4: to either President Trump or the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're underwater.
Speaker 4: But of course political parties ought to be underwater, remember
Speaker 4: when you got their opponents, and number two you got
Speaker 4: neutrals or independence and their own party members who'd like
Speaker 4: them to change what they're.
Speaker 2: Doing a little bit.
Speaker 4: But anyway, Trump is seven percent underwater and Republicans are
Speaker 4: eleven percent underwater. But again keep in mind, the Democrats
Speaker 4: are thirty points underwater.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as always that number of people that are unhappy
Speaker 5: with the Democrats, it's a certain chunk who think they're crazy,
Speaker 5: like I was just talking about, and a certain chunk,
Speaker 5: smaller chunk, but a certain chunk that thinks they haven't
Speaker 5: gone far enough, they haven't stuck to their guns on
Speaker 5: I's issues and defunding the police and climate change and
Speaker 5: all the other important things.
Speaker 4: Which is even worse news, really, But a mere eight
Speaker 4: percent of voters view the Democrats very favorably, two and
Speaker 4: a half times as many have the same level of
Speaker 4: enthusiasm for the GOP.
Speaker 5: I we got a long way to go on what direction?
Speaker 5: You know what the Democratic Party is going to look
Speaker 5: like next presidential election. But I keep hearing people like
Speaker 5: smart people throughout AOC is the current front runner slash
Speaker 5: face of the Democratic Party, and she probably is.
Speaker 2: Who else would have doomed They are doomed, doomed. If
Speaker 2: it was you that go ahead, try it.
Speaker 4: I don't know who else would it be as a
Speaker 4: rhetorical question, but the answer is a blue state governor
Speaker 4: who's a moderate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's got to be a human being so
Speaker 5: that yeah, you're right, but it's got to be an
Speaker 5: actual name at some point.
Speaker 4: I mean, I could throw out a list, but nobody,
Speaker 4: nobody is talking about Bill Clinton. Nobody's throw We're talking
Speaker 4: about Bill Clinton even after he entered Sure, Armstrong and
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