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They're at Armstrong 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.120 and Geeddy dot com. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.720 Here's the funniest thing I thought that happened on the 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.960 Saturday Night Live Go Open with the guy who does Trump. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.320 He was talking about. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.640 You're in Abi Dabby Ami, Dabbi Abi dabbi do like 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.440 the late great friends Flintstone. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.440 I thought that was so funny, eh boy, the late 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:13.600 great Fred Flintstone. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.120 So I Southern News yesterday that they were going to 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.920 have a voting session on the Big Beautiful Bill at 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.319 ten o'clock Sunday night, and because it's the weekend, and 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:24.600 I'm a normal human being. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:25.520 I didn't like. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.040 Take a second to look into that, because I thought, 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.319 what the hell kind of a procedural deal is a 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.440 Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But I just did 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.319 see that the four holdouts went along with whatever and 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.000 it passed, So there you go. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.920 Yeah, the four holdouts went along with whatever is a 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.160 pretty good description of it. I will be a bit 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.040 more detailed. And this is the reason I'm disgusted and embittered. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.280 This is the most sausagey of sausage making. If you're 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:59.920 familiar with the old reference to politics, here's your headline 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.440 from the WAPO. I'm going to read you just a 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.440 little bit because it's kind of revealing of at least 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:06.320 a couple of things. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.079 Trump's tax and immigration. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.000 Bill clears Hurtle after late night vote to the House 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.000 Budget Committee passed a massive tax and immigration package central 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:20.600 President Trump's agenda late Sunday, overcoming opposition from hardline conservatives, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:25.839 overspending four fiscal conservatives, all deficit hawks aligned with the 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:30.359 old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus, changed their vote to present, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:35.880 allowing the legislative monstrosity. I injected that package to be 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.399 recommended favorably to the House by a vote of seventeen 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.840 to sixteen, but their hesitance to vote for the One 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.560 Big Beautiful Bill Act out of committee is a reminder 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:51.480 that the far right flank of the Republican Conference remains skeptical. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.120 I think I see where you're going here. Yeah. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.000 Now, it could just be your typical WAHPO journalistic bias, 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.080 although the WAPO is improved somewhat lately a little bit. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.639 Anyway, I think it's. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:10.280 Unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable with that there 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:14.639 are only a handful of like lunatic hard liners who 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:19.880 are against the following headlines. This is from the Richard 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.800 Ruben writing in The Wall Street Journal. The stark math 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.600 on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut the deficit. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.160 It grows the deficit. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.920 The Republican Party, with both Houses of Congress and the 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.519 White House, are going to grow the deficit. It's undeniable. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.280 Next headline, National Review, Republicans should stay the course on 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.800 reducing medicaid spending. They're not going to. They're running in 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:46.160 the other direction, partly because the incredibly smart calculating what 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.360 is he up to? Josh Cawley of Missouri is all 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.840 of a sudden, this is the guy now. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.000 Who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:04:01.840 He's now out schumering Schumer, saying that the party's Wall 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.480 Street wing, a noisy contingent of corporist Republicans want to 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.800 slash health insurance for the working poor. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:10.280 Yeah, we mentioned that. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.160 On Friday, he wrote that op ed piece that the 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.200 Republicans need to back off cutting Medicare. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.920 Any Well, it's a reform of Medicaid. Any reforms are 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:24.000 a hidden tax on working poor people. And this is 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.560 and he's referring to a thirty five dollars copay for 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.919 able bodied adults covered by Obamacare Medicaid for a visit 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.640 to the doctor. Thirty five dollars copay is some sort 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.880 of hidden tax on working poor people. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.560 And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.440 party of the working class, and they feel like they 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.400 got enough a working class that are on Medicaid that 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.159 they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:54.200 And a yeah, now the party of pandering to and 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.159 writing checks to people to win their votes. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.400 Yeah, I was going to say that it's interesting they 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.080 call these people ultra conservative of right wing, when not 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.440 very many years ago you would have been the center 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.800 of the Republican Party. I mean that would have been 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.039 I mean as like what the Republican Party was. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:11.560 It was. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.000 It was, it was a term you would have used 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.279 to define the party. Fact, it was so intrinsic to 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.240 the Republican Party. You'd feel silly even repeating what you 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.400 just repeated, right that there's no need fisically conservative. But 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:29.320 I suppose in reality, given where most of the party is, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.240 they are ultra right wing or ultra conservative because the 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.279 bulk of the party doesn't care apparently apparently not voters. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:42.120 So spending your children, grandchildren into tax and spend oblivion. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.280 Well all right, Well, this story got repeated a lot 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.320 over the weekend that we got downgraded on one of 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.960 our credit scores by one of the major organizations that does. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:50.919 That sort of thing. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:56.080 And uh, over the weekend it kind of got put 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.560 out there that it was like a Trump thing because 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.760 of tariffs or whatever. It was basically around the fact 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.960 that our debt is just so high. It's just like 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.640 this would happen to you if you go to the 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.600 bank and they take a look at your well you've 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.080 got with your car payments. Now you bought like eight 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.719 cars and two houses, and you're just overmaxed. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.960 So you have eighty thousand dollars in credit card bills 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.960 and you only make ninety a year, right, right, So 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.960 they just dong Grady because you just spend more than 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:24.360 you make. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.479 That's what happened. That didn't happen just in the last 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.960 one hundred days under Trump. We've been building this for 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:30.679 a long time. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.000 And the final reason I am completely embittered about the 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.000 Republican Party in politics and America and democracy and life 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:44.440 on Earth is the fact that, and it's a two 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.880 part horror show, Part number one is that there are 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:53.200 a bunch of swing district Republicans from big blue states 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.920 California and New York most notably, who are not only 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.919 trying to defend the idea of the salt deduction this 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.800 state and local tax deduction, they want to raise it 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.440 from ten thousand dollars to at least thirty thousand dollars 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.840 and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning if you live in 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:15.120 a tax and spend lunatic state like say California, all 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.840 of those incredibly high taxes you're paying, you can deduct 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.280 from your federal tax return. So the other states will 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:26.080 subsidize the tax and spend lunacy of New York and California. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.320 So my brothers in Kansas pay some of my taxes 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:30.720 because I live in California. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:31.400 That makes sense. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.640 Yeah, you get a giant subsidy from the other states. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.120 You pay a lower federal tax rate, significantly lower depending 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.680 on you know, how much money you make than folks 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:50.320 in fiscally responsible states, and is indefensible morally. It's indefensible 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.840 as for Republican reason, not the party, but the idea 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.920 of we have a federal system than states, and the 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.600 states can do what they want, and they should. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:00.880 Do what they want. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.000 If you're fine, if Massachusetts wants to have a sixty 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.200 five percent income tax, go ahead. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.040 I'm not living there, but go ahead. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:14.640 But then to transfer that profligacy to the other states 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:19.920 is it's a horror. And as a conservative slash Republican, 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.840 he says, trying not to vomit because of my embitteredness, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.760 the idea that that is a plank of the Republican Party. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:29.680 I'm done. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.000 It's it's hard to swallow. I mean, you know, it 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.000 would help Joe and I if this happens financially. But 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.920 it's awful, absolutely awful. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.480 You I mean, you can't defend it. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.520 No, it's it's it's I am horrified. I don't care 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.600 how much it would benefit me. God bless me. I 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.160 have principles. It's really held me back in life. Jack too. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.920 I just I'm done. I'm done. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.200 Yeah, it's well. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.840 Like I said last week, Sarah Isger of The Dispatch, 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.040 I heard her on a podcast They're having this discussion 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.880 about party, and she said, there are no political parties. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.040 What are we talking about here? Yeah? 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.800 I need to seek that out because I think she 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.839 nailed absolutely, one hundred percent. There are no political parties. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:19.439 There's just whoever emerges as the candidate, cycle by cycle, 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.080 and then whatever they believe, the party goes along with. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.600 And it's true on both sides. So the idea that 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.880 there are parties that stand for something, we. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:27.960 Need to all move past that. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.040 From my hero hl Menken, every election is a sort 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:38.400 of advanced auction sale of stolen goods. That's always been true. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.520 There was a time when a certain party had certain 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.000 principles that I admired. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.199 Do you have time has passed. You know what. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:52.240 My high school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my wife of forty 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:57.480 years is. When she's not turning tricks, she's killing people 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.960 for the mob. Okay, she's not a woman, I felt. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.640 This is by the way, fictional illustration has nothing to 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.360 do with my beloved bride Judith. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:11.000 She's not the person she was. It's you can forget it. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.040 It's over, so move on. Get a get an Ai. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.360 Girlfriend like a normal person and a love bod or 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.080 something I girlfriend like a normal prison. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.319 The Armstrong and Getty Show. Yeah more Jack Morgio podcasts 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:26.720 and our hot links. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.199 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.760 The Armstrong and Getty Show. Yet another one of these? 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.080 Do they run this quarterly? 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.200 Is it some sort of requirement warning issue to anyone 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:47.960 using this smiley face emoji to older people not gen Z. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.680 A smile face means you're conveying that you're happy. Yeah, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.720 but gen Z takes this grinning face to convey sarcasm 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.559 or irony. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.760 And then it has the inevitable twenty three year old employee. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.160 Who says, at first I thought my coarchers were being 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.240 called and sarcastic to me, and then I realized when 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.560 they send a thumbs up, they really mean thumbs up 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.360 because he is a sarcastically and the tone of the 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.640 article is always therefore, you're you. Older people really ought 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.040 to be careful in a. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.120 Finger and they should switch to the way we do 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.360 it as opposed the other way around. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.880 Yes, I would say to Hovey's at BESHI, twenty one 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.440 year old intern, excuse me, I run this place. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.240 I own this place. People like me run the world. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.720 So you figured out. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:39.960 My son sends me the emoji with the tears streaming 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.319 down the face. Yes, at what seemed to me inappropriate times, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.959 it seems to mean something different to freshmen in high 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.360 school than all the other adults who ever send me 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.040 the emoji with tears streaming down the face? 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.360 Yes, k, Katie, you're not old and bitter. Well, don't 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:55.959 go that better. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:00.640 But several of my younger friends send me that, which 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.839 usually would mean like you're crying legitimately, like. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.000 You were really touched by something, or you know, my 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.640 dog just died, or I heard about your mom or whatever. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.600 Yeah, it means something's hilarious now, like you're crying, you're 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.199 laughing song. 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.600 Okay, that's what I kind of picked up on. I thought, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.600 this is highly inappropriate. Does this mean you're laughing? 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.000 Well, yeah, I cracked. You have a laughing till you're crying, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.080 right they do. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:23.680 Yeah. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.480 I cracked a joke to one of my girlfriends and 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.319 I sent her that and she sent me one of 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.400 those back, and I was like, did something just happen? 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.599 What's wrong? She's like, that's exactly that what I have. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.679 And I thought, oh, geez, I hurt somebody's feelings. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.440 Yeah, exact same thing came over me. I was like, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.080 what did I do? No, that's just their laughing face. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.560 Now are we talking about the tears streaming down? 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:41.880 Yeah? 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.040 See, we used that in my family a lot. Like 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:48.760 I didn't get the wordle So you're really upset. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.640 Yeah, but you're you're you're you're you're being sarcastic about 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.840 how upset you are. Yes, exaggerating, Yeah, but it's kind 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.920 of the opposite meaning for my son. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.959 Okay, now I get it. I'm laughing so hard I'm 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:01.800 even though they've got one of those already. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.640 My favorite texting story of all time, and it will 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.040 be for the rest of my life, was the woman 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:08.720 who said I'm sorry I didn't get back to you 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.280 my mom just passed away, and her friend replied lol, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.680 thinking it meant lots of love. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.119 To me. They no longer speak. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.280 And I'm lolling now is the ironic concluded? 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:23.520 That's sorry anyway? 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.960 So to get like this, I feel like lol is 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:37.560 like charity laugh or you know what is that term 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.280 where you you laugh? You know, somebody says simple sympathy 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.280 laugh at this point and I and then I don't 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.880 know how to respond with a that actually is freaking funny. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:51.040 Yeah, yeah, well I don't know. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.120 I usually write out because I don't use emojis, because 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.439 I'm a grown up. I usually write out. I actually 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.760 laughed out loud at that. That was very funny, like 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.920 that much it's something really long and tedious. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.200 You're such a boomer, or you just send the word 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.800 funny with zero punctuations, so you can't tell if you're 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:07.600 being serious or not. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:08.560 I have done that. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.559 I will frequently respond ha because I was laughing lots 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:21.800 of oz. Yeah. So, but there's more linguists studying emojis. Emoji, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.960 I think I'm supposed to say I'm not Japanese, all right. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.160 Have also pointed out that the symbols new meetings can 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.960 often emerge from slang that older users might not be 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.240 aware of. For example, older social media users might see 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.280 the skull emoji as a literal symbol of death or 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.320 a sign that someone is figuratively dead, isn't dead, tired 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.560 or dead to me, whatever, But for the younger users, 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.360 the skull is used to say I'm dead, which means 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.640 that they found something hilarious and have died laughing. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:53.120 Oh okay, the skull is that was really funny. I'm 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.880 gonna hit somebody I can. I can think of people 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.320 i'd hit with that today would be very confused. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.720 While the sparkle emoji is frequently someone being sarcastic about 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.280 how something, how good something is, and too much sarcasm. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.920 But here's the part I found really interesting. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.000 So I send to like. If somebody says, hey, I 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.840 got that promotion at work, I respond with an eggplant 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.000 and then sprays of water. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.600 Is that the proper thing? Good Lord? Yes? Yes, do that? 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:26.960 Yeah, that's perfect, Oh my god. Or if you give 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.800 a thumbs up and a sparkle, they'll think you're mocking them, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.800 which is again, we run the world. We old people 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.960 run the world. You adapt us. But is your youngster 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:41.480 texting about cannabis, for instance, sometimes known as pot or marijuana. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:48.240 The shamrock, the leaf, the maple leaf, the lemon, the grape, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.160 the watermelon, the strawberry, the cherry, the pineapple, the dog face, 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.320 the candy, the cake, the ice cream cone, and the 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.080 cookie can all be references to cannabis. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.200 Because I understand it. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.720 The egg plant is the traditional vegetable of success, and 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.360 so if somebody has some good news. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.120 Keep believe in that, jack and use it frequently. Jack. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.840 These emoji can be references to cocaine, a rocket ship, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:20.360 a fish, a gas pump, a snowman or a snowflake. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.080 They're all sorts of drugs. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:31.920 Uh, sexting the peach which looks like God forgive me 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:38.760 a woman's hind end, or the egg plant, the water 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.960 you mentioned, or cherries. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.160 Let's see. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.840 I was embarrassingly baffled the other day when I got 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.800 a text message from a friend that said kiss my 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.680 and then there was a peach emoji, and I'm going, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:51.800 this is my peach? 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.240 What do you mean? I saw somebody with a cherries 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.800 tattoo on them? What does that mean? You, Katie? Is 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:00.400 that a girl? What's that mean? Women. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:06.600 Cherries were trendy late nineties early two thousands, But I 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:07.320 don't know if. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:12.600 That meaning what was the message A delicious fruit? It 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:13.840 was just a cute pattern. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.600 Okay, So okay, it didn't mean anything, all right, that's fine, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:17.880 doesn't need. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.360 To We're looking it up. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:20.840 Oh. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.639 Often associated with sensuality, feminine power, innocence, and youth. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.160 Okay, According to an Instagram post, that's a stupid tattoo. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.120 Don't get that and if you haven't, get it removed. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:42.800 Arm Strong and the Armstrong and Getty shar So. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.159 Speaking of technology a different sort than an AI story, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.199 I am completely convinced that mankind has invented its doom. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.399 I'm just there's nothing I can do about it, so 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:54.879 I try not to worry about it. I hope my 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.520 kids are smart and savvy enough to, you know, to 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.640 have happy lives in spite of the coming. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.320 AI apocalypse. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.879 If nothing else, the biggest change in the shortest amount 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.679 of time that's probably ever happened, which would be whip sawing, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.560 even if it turns out okay. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.600 Yes, yeah. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.200 Alicia Finley, who writes for the Journal opinion page, who 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.720 I think is just terrific one of my favorite writers. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.200 Has a piece today. I think it is recently. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.120 Analyzing what people are saying so far, including the CEO 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.480 of Amazon about AI with that employee memo that he 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.440 sent out, the key line of which was, we will 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.399 need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.679 being done today and more people doing other types of jobs, 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.240 and that the people who will keep their jobs are 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.960 people who learn how to use AI effectively. And he 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.640 explained that AI advances me and employees will do less 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:58.280 wrote work and more thinking strategically, which sounds really super great. 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.239 And all this will require high level of cognition than 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.240 does the rote work many white color employees now do. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.760 But as AI is getting smarter, I'll start quoting Alicia. Now, 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.720 Younger college grads may be getting dumber. Like early versions 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.000 of chat GBT. They can regurgitate information and ideas, but 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.080 struggle to come up with novel insights or analyze issues 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.960 from different directions. And then she goes in an interesting direction, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:30.640 and this is the fruit of the tree of knowledge stuff. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:36.440 We don't know what we're doing to ourselves, she mentions. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.639 The brain continues to develop and mature into one's mid twenties. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.719 Some of us longer than that, but like a muscle, 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.280 it needs to be exercise, stimulated, and challenged to grow stronger. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.000 Technology and especially AI, can stunt this development by doing 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.080 the mental work that builds the brain's version of a 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:59.040 computer cloud, a phenomenon called cognitive offloading. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.000 Cool. Yeah, yeah, cool, But. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.359 Growing research shows and I remember we talked about this 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.159 a while ago. We had a debate about cursive cursive writing, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.320 which seems silly and unnecessary in handwriting in general. But 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.080 then these studies have come out that show that handwriting 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.240 engages parts of your brain that play a crucial role 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.560 in learning and help children with word and letter recognition. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.439 But more than that, taking notes by hand also promotes 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.960 memory development by forcing you to synthesize and prioritize information. 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.359 When you plunk away on a keyboard. On the other hand, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.639 information can go as it were, in one ear and 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:40.439 out the other. And then they study the electrical activity 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.920 of university students during the activities of handwriting and typing, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.600 and the way their brains worked were very, very different. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.240 Now that's just kind of a side point to the 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:58.160 greater point, which is the dopey grunt work that now 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:02.480 the computers do do or the AI can do is 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.000 the very dope y grunt work that give builds the 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.439 neural muscles it takes to do the more advanced stuff. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.879 You can't skip to bench pressing two hundred and fifty 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:19.920 pounds having not bench pressed one hundred pounds ever, neurologically speaking. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.200 That's really interesting. I was just thinking in my own life, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.919 I do some I hate the term journaling. I don't know, 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:34.520 it sounds so woosy. My son would say gay and 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.080 so at all is high school friends, including gay ones. 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:41.520 But funny, isn't it. Uh? 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.399 But anyway, writing about things that are you know, difficult 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.000 to try to get them out or figure them out. 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.439 But I do it a lot, typing into my notes 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.080 and my phone, and you're you're saying that doesn't count, 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:01.159 that that doesn't work right. Interesting way, I mean to 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:05.840 be completely wasting my time. I hate handwriting. I did 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:08.840 say I'm left handed, I have short fingers. I just 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:10.480 the physical act of handwriting. 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:11.000 I hate. 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.840 It's just physically that's funny. My my my son who's 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.080 left handed, is that way. He just he just he 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.840 almost says it hurts. It's just like it's physically awful 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:22.439