1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Kat Katie and He Armstrong and Eddy, various 4 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: world organizations, all of whom hate Israel are calling it 5 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 2: a famine now in Gaza. We'll talk more about that 6 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 2: later in some of the proof in various directions, but 7 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 2: President Trump was asked about it yesterday. 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 3: I mean, some of those kids are that's real starvation stuff. 9 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 3: I see it, and you can't fake that. So we're 10 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 3: going to be even more involved. 11 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 2: It's crazy what's going on over there. He mentioned, I 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: just know what I see on television, but that's horrific. 13 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 2: You can't fake that. Well, you can certainly exaggerate it. 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: You can miss represented a lot. And they've been doing 15 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 2: it for decades, by the way. 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 4: Well and saying, yeah, judging by what I've seen on TV, 17 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 4: it's pretty bad. You have like the greatest intelligence apparatus 18 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 4: on earth. Why are you judging by what you've seen 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 4: on TV? 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: Good point at all? 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 4: Orfully selected video snippets from carefully selected biased journalists. 22 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was just looking at a headline. And 23 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 2: then we'll talk about this later, so we'll move on. 24 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: But two hundred and sixty humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday. 25 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 2: Two hundred and sixty trucks, twenty pallets of humanitarian aid 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 2: were air dropped at various parts of Gaza. As one 27 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 2: of my favorite tweeters said, worst genocide ever. Yeah, yeah, 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 2: so coming up as in is in. You can't. It's 29 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: not good at being a genocide, is the way his point, 30 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: dropping all of this food and bringing in all these trucks, 31 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 2: you're not doing a very good job of a genocide 32 00:01:58,720 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: if that's what you're doing. 33 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 4: Right, And it's interesting. I had prepared for later a 34 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 4: story about various maidenstream media journalists who are covering the 35 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 4: situation in Gaza, all of whom are tied to Hamas 36 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 4: or Hezballah or have praised Yah Yah Sinoar or a 37 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 4: number of these characters. Anyway, we talked about this actually 38 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 4: yesterday and we can touch on it again. Is there 39 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 4: actually starvation in Gaza? It is very difficult to get 40 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 4: a straight story. It looks selish. Oh my god, it 41 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 4: looks tellish. 42 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: And I mean, though that's not fake, I mean it's tellish, 43 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 2: no matter what now whether or not there's purposeful starvation 44 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: going on, that's a different question. 45 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 4: On later on the show. There are a number of 46 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 4: significant stories we ought to touch on more thoroughly. The 47 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 4: absolutely shockingly miserable poll numbers of the Democratic Party. Also 48 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 4: a major ruling that is allowing judges to continue to 49 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 4: issue nationwide injunctions against Trump, even those Supreme Court quote 50 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 4: unquote struck down the ability to do that. 51 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: We will get into that. 52 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 4: And also I want to talk about how on the 53 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 4: economic front, AI is already wrecking college graduates job prospects. 54 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: Well, I want to hear that, yeah, like recent college graduates. 55 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 4: And also a great piece from a Trump skeptical, a thinker, 56 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 4: if Trump's tariffs are so bad, where's the recession? So 57 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 4: we'll get to all of that stuff, but first, a 58 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 4: handful of stories that tend to be a little lighter, 59 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 4: but I wanted to touch on them. Michael plays a 60 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 4: little bit of number twelve. 61 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 2: Would you please. 62 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: Thank you for your interest in Astronomer. Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. 63 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: I've been hired on a very temporary basis to speak 64 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: on behalf of the three hundred plus employees it Astronomer 65 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last 66 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: few days, and they wanted me to answer the most 67 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: common ones. Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run 68 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: Apache airflow, unifying the experience of running data mL and 69 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so many people 70 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: have a newfound interest in data. 71 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 4: So that is an ad for Astronomer, which was the 72 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 4: company run by the dude who was smooching with his 73 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 4: illicit babe at the Coldplay concert, and the companies like, A, 74 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 4: all right, this is bad for our look and b 75 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 4: everybody is curious about our company soon, And so they 76 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 4: hired Ryan Reynolds PR firm, marketing firm, and he hired 77 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 4: Gwyneth Paltrow Chris Martin of Coldplays X to do the commercial. 78 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 4: Thinking there's a little more tie in celebrity that'll get 79 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 4: more attention for us. And my only point in bringing 80 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 4: this up is it's kind of funny in some good pr. Secondly, 81 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 4: in a few years, I think people are going to 82 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 4: say Ryan Reynolds was an actor. I think he's a 83 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 4: really innovative, smart business guy. I was just thinking, man 84 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 4: talk about turning lemons into lemonade nobody'd ever heard of 85 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 4: this astronomer company. When you've got all of that attention, 86 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 4: find a way to get out what you are and 87 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 4: what you do. 88 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 2: That's a great idea. If you ever have a scandal 89 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 2: come your way, take that opportunity to say, yeah, I'm 90 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 2: the guy from that video, and here's what I can 91 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: do for you. 92 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 4: Right that that would be extra bold or hier a 93 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 4: Gwynneth Feltro, But yeah, yeah, I think that's absolutely a 94 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 4: smart take. 95 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: And Ryan Reynolds impresses me. Moving along, so. 96 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 4: Speaking of the media, Skydance Media, which is the giant 97 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 4: media conglomerate which is part of the big CBS Paramount merger. 98 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 4: That is that's one of the reasons CBS settled with 99 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 4: Trump over some very questionablelawsuit. The constitution all right anyway, 100 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 4: But so that's the company involves. 101 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 2: Sky Dances made. 102 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 4: A series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news 103 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 4: and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount CBS. 104 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 2: It's the home of sixty minutes Oh boy. 105 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 4: When its planned acquisition is complete, Scout Dans is also 106 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 4: confirming the elimination of all diversity, equity and inclusion policies 107 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 4: and initiatives in Paramount, which had been one of the 108 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 4: most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business. 109 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: I see, I think sixty minutes is a news program 110 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 2: that still matters, and it'll be interesting to see do 111 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 2: people quit, do they adjust their sales? I wonder what's 112 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 2: going to happen. Uh? 113 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't think it matters much, and I 114 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 4: think in five years it will matter much less. But 115 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 4: five years is forever in the modern era, sure, But anyway, 116 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 4: scott Ants laid out the moves in two letters. It's 117 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 4: sent to the FCC Commissioner. The first letter addresses concerns 118 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 4: about media bias at CBS, pledges to ensure that cbs 119 00:06:58,960 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 4: is reporting is fair and. 120 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: By and fact based. 121 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 4: Second outline in sky Dance's commitments going forward to promote 122 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 4: non discrimination and equal opportunity employment. 123 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 2: That's absolutely fabulous. 124 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 4: I don't love how we got there, but end all 125 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 4: DEI programs everywhere they exist in schools, corporations and nonprofits, 126 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 4: and don't let them rename them and keep discriminating. 127 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 2: And we can get to that in a little bit. 128 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,559 Speaker 2: This headline just deserves a quick nod. 129 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 4: The Biden administrations seven and a half billion dollar EV 130 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 4: charging port initiative that was going to build allegedly a 131 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 4: half a million by the year twenty thirty has built. 132 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 2: Were these going to be the same ev charging ports 133 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 2: that every city has put like in front of their 134 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 2: public library that do nothing? Why do you bring that up, Jack, 135 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 2: Because they don't do anything. Nobody seems to know that. 136 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 2: But they don't do anything. You can plug in your 137 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 2: car for an hour and get like five miles working. 138 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 2: I mean, they just don't work. 139 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 4: So there are pos's or PSOs anyway. But instead of 140 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 4: half a million, and granted it's just the year twenty 141 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 4: twenty five and allegedly they have time to go, they 142 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 4: have delivered fewer than four hundred charging ports since the 143 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 4: seven and a half billion dollar program began almost four 144 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 4: years ago. 145 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: Unbelievable and they're worth God we get stolen from and 146 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 2: a lot of it is under the mantle of green 147 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 2: energy and electric cars ain't going anywhere anywhere anyway. It's 148 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 2: just not gonna happen, at least not now unless something 149 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 2: changes major with technology and speaking of media, final note 150 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 2: for this segment, maybe we can break semi in time 151 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 2: for once in our lives. I thought this was a 152 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 2: joke at first. The Atlantic, the great vaunted Atlantic, read 153 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 2: by the same people who run around Manhattan with the 154 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: NPR toat bags and tell us all what we ought 155 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 2: to think from the lecterns of universities and the broadcast 156 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: TV and radio, et cetera, and Hollywood. 157 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 4: The Atlantic with a story about Helen by Helen lewis 158 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 4: finally a Democrat who could shine on Joe Rogan's show, 159 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 4: her point being breakthrough and be the modern go getter 160 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 4: democratic voice and isn't screwed around. 161 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: It's forceful, that is plane. 162 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 4: Speaking that can reach the common people, bring men back 163 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 4: to the party, bring the working class back to the party. 164 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 4: Finally the Democrats have this person, and she is dead 165 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 4: blanking serious hunter Biden Y. 166 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 2: I've heard a couple of people say that that his 167 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 2: frankness was so refreshing, and why can't we get somebody 168 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 2: who speaks that way? 169 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 4: That reminds me of the same sort of blanking morons 170 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 4: who declared that Tim Walls was teaching American manner new 171 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 4: sort of masculinity. 172 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 2: Well, I don't I don't want to get off on 173 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 2: this topic, because we got plenty of time but there 174 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 2: were news stories out yesterday that Kamala Harris is contemplating 175 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 2: a presidential run. 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It's just if the world's go 216 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 2: in this direction, I'm just going to become a pet 217 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 2: psychic and. 218 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 4: Tell stupid people send their money or are getting parted. 219 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 4: Why doesn't land in my pocket. I'm gonna tell stupid 220 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 4: or mentally ill people what they want to hear about 221 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 4: their pet collection money. I'll wear a pointed hat, some beads. 222 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 4: They're happy, you're happy, except everybody's happy. There are no 223 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 4: losers in this hat and beads or whatever you'd wear. 224 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:28,719 Speaker 2: Is a pet psyche? What do you wear? I don't 225 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: know where you were. You'll look into it. I suppose 226 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: not appointed that maybe beads, though, I. 227 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 4: Might have to become a pet psychic because AI has 228 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 4: screwed up your prospects as a recent college graduate. 229 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 2: We'll get to that. Also, we've got this hilarious bit 230 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: about no wonder young people are a soft today with 231 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 2: what they read in college versus what we read, I mean, 232 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 2: in school. It's pretty funny. Stay here. 233 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 4: So that Russia just started direct flight between Moscow and 234 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 4: North Korea. 235 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 2: It's one of those rare trips where the fun part 236 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 2: really is the journey and not the destination of it. Yeah, 237 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 2: no kidding. I'd love to go to North Korea if 238 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: I felt like I could be safe. I don't know, 239 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: if it was like a real roll of the dice 240 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, because old what's his name? 241 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: He? 242 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 2: I mean he he he what he did something? He 243 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 2: vandalized and authorities, but they beat him to death. That 244 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 2: ain't cool. 245 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 4: He just took a poster as a souvenir. Yeah, outo 246 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 4: warm beer, God rest his soul. 247 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. Ah. 248 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 4: So this is uh, this is the beginning, I believe. 249 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 4: And I'm neither an alarmist nor a minimizer about AI 250 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 4: and its disruptive powers. I lean more toward alarmist, I think. 251 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 4: But Wall Street Journal with an article today, what do 252 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 4: you uh, Let's see, AI is wrecking an already fragile 253 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 4: job market for college graduates. Companies have long leaned on 254 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 4: entry level workers to do grunt work that doubles is 255 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 4: on the job training. Now Chat, GPT and other bots 256 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 4: can do many of those chores. And they go through 257 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 4: a handful of companies. This is a marketing agency. They've 258 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 4: They're clients have all but stopped requesting entry level staff 259 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 4: young grads once in high demand, whose work is now 260 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 4: what's being called a home run for AI, meaning it's 261 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 4: the sort of thing AI does the best. 262 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 2: Can you give me an example, like what sort of 263 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 2: things are is AI doing? Really? Well? 264 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 4: They go they speak more in generalities. But let me 265 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 4: get through the list dating app grinders hiring more seasoned 266 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 4: engineers for going some junior coders straight out of school. 267 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 2: So the gay hookup app is not hiring young grads 268 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 2: because of AI. That's an interesting that's already got a 269 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: lot to it. 270 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 4: Here's a Columbus based consulting firm, Futurity, which is pretty 271 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 4: well known, decided not to hire a summer intern this 272 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 4: year instead of opting to run social media copy through 273 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 4: chat GPT instead. And this guy, the CEO, said he's 274 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 4: urging his own kids to focus on jobs that require 275 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 4: people skills and can't be easily automated. 276 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 2: So the tough partics, Yeah, the tough part is, some 277 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 2: people have pointed out is people skills often are a 278 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: lot more something you're born with than something you can learn, 279 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 2: as opposed to the other skills that you know, you 280 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 2: could sit down and learn. Right. 281 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, you can improve them or you could let them 282 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 4: kind of atrophy. But you either got it or you don't. 283 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 4: That's absolutely true. So and they go through a bunch 284 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 4: of examples, but a year's long white collar hiring slump 285 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 4: and recessionaries have weakened the. 286 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 2: Show up work hard. 287 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 4: We'll educate you to become the next generation of leader's relationship. 288 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 4: And the statistics are crazy. Unemployment stats in the last 289 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 4: let's see from the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen statistical year 290 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 4: to the most recent period among high school young high 291 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 4: school grads has ticked up a tenth of a percent, Okay, 292 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 4: barely at all. Some college the unemployment numbers have ticked 293 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 4: up four tenths of a percent, which is quadruple the 294 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 4: previous number, but it's hard to glean much. An associate's 295 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 4: degree is up two tenths of a percent. If you 296 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 4: have a bachelor's degree, the unemployment rate is up one 297 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 4: point one percent, and among grad students it's up one percent. 298 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 4: So the horizon unemployment is steepest among college grads and 299 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 4: grad school students. These sectors where graduate hiring is slowed 300 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 4: the most. Information finance, insurance, technical serches. Those sectors are 301 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 4: still growing well. 302 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 2: The best example out there, as we've mentioned multiple times, 303 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 2: is just a couple of years ago, learn to code 304 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 2: was like the thing you want your kid to be successful. 305 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 2: Learn to code. Now I know people who code who 306 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 2: use AI to do all their coding. 307 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 4: Right and after dancing around the issue. In the two 308 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 4: and a half years since chat GPT's release up into 309 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 4: the way, almost all companies plan for their future. CEOs 310 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 4: are now talking openly about AI's immense capabilities, likely leading 311 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:39,120 Speaker 4: to deep job cuts. Top industry executives, including Amazon JP Morgan, 312 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,199 Speaker 4: have said in recent weeks they expect their workforces to 313 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 4: shrink considerably. Ford CEO Jim Farley City expects AI will 314 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 4: replace half of the white collar workforce in the US 315 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 4: half half including the hardworking people at Grinder. You should 316 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 4: have led with that half. Oh my god, you don't 317 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 4: start to show with a show stopper jack. 318 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 2: Half a white collar jobs eliminated by AI. If that's 319 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: even close to true, Wow, that will be a revolution. 320 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 2: Armstrong and geddy. 321 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 6: Some of y'all have not experienced emotional trauma through literature, 322 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 6: and it shows. Kids today are out here reading The 323 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 6: Magical Bunny and How We Learned to Love Himself or 324 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 6: Sparkle the Dragon's Conflict three Resolution Journey. 325 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, but that is emotional tofu, just. 326 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 6: Page after page of affirmations and pastel illustrations like a 327 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 6: therapist made it on Canva. Meanwhile, we were out here 328 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 6: getting emotionally demolished by Where the Red Fern Grows. 329 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 2: You want to talk about resilience. 330 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 6: I watched a boy Barry's Two Dead Dogs after one 331 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 6: got ripped apart by a mountain lion and the other 332 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 6: one starved a death out of grief, and I read 333 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 6: that in the fourth grade. I came out of that 334 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 6: book Vietnam VET, and aged ten years and two hundred pages. 335 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 6: Today's kids get talking lamas who validate their feelings, and 336 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 6: we got Old Yeller where the dog gets rabies and 337 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 6: the dad's like, well, son, i think it's time we 338 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 6: shoot your best friend in the face. 339 00:18:58,800 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 2: It's all part of growing up. 340 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 6: And that was our bedtime story. And you wonder why 341 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 6: millennials cry during commercials? 342 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 4: Did? 343 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 2: I hated ten years reading that book. That is interesting though. 344 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 2: I thought about that that when my kids were young, 345 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 2: which I guess makes means I've become soft like all 346 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 2: of modern society. It's just like, good God, all the 347 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 2: old Disney movies we'd watch and everyone the parents die, 348 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 2: all your old Disney classics, the parents die. 349 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's obligatory. Yeah uh yeah, that's 350 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 4: something else. I'm reminded. It's funny I'm deep in thought 351 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 4: thinking of some of the books I've read and my 352 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 4: kids read in schools, and the concept of trigger warnings, 353 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 4: which is one of the worst things that's ever happened, 354 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 4: and how that's all related to And this might. 355 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 2: Seem like a stretch, but I swear it's not. 356 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 4: It's related to the whole neo Marxist thing, where what 357 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 4: they want to happen is you don't know what to say, 358 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 4: you don't know what you can say. You're afraid of offending, 359 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 4: you're afraid of getting in trouble, you're afraid of losing 360 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 4: your job. 361 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 2: In short, you're afraid. 362 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 4: And so you got to go through every conceivable trauma 363 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 4: or discomfort there might be in reading a piece of literature. 364 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 4: That's a bizarre notion, and yet it took hold at 365 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 4: most of our universities. 366 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 2: Speaking of which, and Michael, I apologize. 367 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 4: I got a an in urgent communication during the break 368 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 4: and wasn't able to communicate to you. Hansen prepared a 369 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 4: little musical thing for me earlier today. I got that 370 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 4: handy Oh wow, okay, here you go. 371 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 2: Yes, oh it's not good. But what did they say? 372 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 4: We're like I was trying to quickly with the of 373 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 4: Hanson and Ai craft a theme song to our miseducation update. Okay, 374 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 4: and our twisted schools break all the rules. They churn 375 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 4: out fools that just ain't cool. And I said, in 376 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 4: the style of nineteen seventies British punk, there you go, 377 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 4: and again it wasn't good. 378 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 2: Anyway. A couple of stories for you. 379 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,719 Speaker 4: Let's start with good news. A victory for our friends 380 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 4: at the Goldwater Institute. Tim Sanderfer's output of Pennsylvania Mom 381 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,880 Speaker 4: won a major victory for parental rights and government transparency 382 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 4: last week when ours local school district tried and failed 383 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 4: to withhold Dei materials from parents, claiming they were trade secrets. 384 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, can you imagine, man, I would lose my 385 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 2: mind if any school official ever said anything close to 386 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 2: that to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, you don't 387 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 2: get to have any secrets, right do you work for us? 388 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 4: And claiming that it's like the same as the design 389 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 4: for our jet engine here at Lockheed. 390 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 2: Our DEI materials are trade secrets. Yeah. 391 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,479 Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, she requested assets to our 392 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 4: local schools, materials that were presented to teacher, staff and 393 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 4: students to see whether the school district was indoctrinating students 394 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 4: by teaching racially discrim discriminatory DEI, but the district refused, 395 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 4: calling it trade secrets. I would say, up the Goldener Institutes, 396 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 4: and the judge said, you're out of your mind. Yeah, 397 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 4: I would say, you're either going to release this to 398 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 4: all his parents right now, or then we'll go through 399 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 4: the whole lawsuit process and then you'll release it to us, 400 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 4: because obviously you have to. 401 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 2: So what are we going to do here? 402 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 4: In a groundbreaking, an amazing decision, the court correctly held 403 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,640 Speaker 4: that the public was entitled to see records created by 404 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 4: a government employee to train other government employees. There was 405 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 4: no trade secret protection for this material ord And by 406 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 4: the way, the school district appealed to the Supreme Court 407 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 4: of Pennsylvania. 408 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 2: Because they actually believed they should be able to keep 409 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 2: it asad secret. The way they're crafting their organization to 410 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 2: teach your kid, that's nuts. It is absolutely nuts. 411 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 4: I think I don't know, but I think you may 412 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 4: be making the mistake of judging their motivations by what 413 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 4: they say. Their motivations are. They don't believe for a 414 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 4: second it's a trade secret. They just want to keep 415 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 4: doing DEI and so they're making any excuse they could find. 416 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,719 Speaker 4: Moving along another good positive story. 417 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 2: Well, there is the you know, there's the example of 418 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 2: who's that guy around for governor in Virginia, Terry mcculluff. Well, actually, 419 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 2: in one of the debates, got hammered for saying something 420 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 2: along the lines of parents can't be trusted with teaching 421 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 2: their kids. We need to get them to the schools 422 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 2: where they you know, we can count on them getting 423 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 2: the right information so in education can take over. There 424 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 2: is a certain belief that actually seems to exist along 425 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 2: those lines, which is crazy. Yeah, you're right. 426 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 4: And it's that nexus of like activists, neo Marxist types 427 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 4: and the well meaning fools who get swept up in 428 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 4: their ideas who actually believe this crap that it gets 429 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 4: a little confusing because you know a lot of those 430 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 4: people like Terry mccauiff, I don't think is a neo Marxist, 431 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 4: but he's a progressive and he's been convinced by the 432 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 4: you know, neo Marxist in the progressive wing of the Democrats. 433 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 4: I guess that they mean it. They really want to 434 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 4: educate the kids better, and PhDs in education, are the 435 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 4: people to do it? Some more good news in a 436 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 4: weird way. It occurred to me as I spoke that phrase, 437 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 4: that undoing something horrible happening, it is good news, but 438 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,479 Speaker 4: it's kind of half and half, if you know what 439 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 4: I mean. A school district in North Carolina has been 440 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 4: ordered to admit their mistake and issue an apology and 441 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 4: fork over twenty thousand dollars and some more settlement stuff 442 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 4: after they were sued for suspending a sixteen year old 443 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 4: student who used the term illegal aliens in class. 444 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 2: Suspended for that? 445 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, the sixteen year old student was in an English 446 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 4: class discussion. 447 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 2: He is the term English. 448 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 4: The teacher said aliens, and the student said, do you 449 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 4: mean space aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards? 450 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 2: Wow? And it was just a clarification question, right right. 451 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 4: The student was later suspended for three days and marks 452 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 4: denoting racially and sensitive behavior were added to his permanent record. 453 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I realize it's easier said than done. You've got 454 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 2: to pull your kid out of that school. Good lord, 455 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 2: that's a lot of schools around America, I know. 456 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 4: Yeah. So the case actually caught the eyes of Donald J. Trump, 457 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 4: who wrote the student of personal recommendation letter. According to 458 00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 4: the Liberty Justice Institute, people are crazy. Yeah, yeah, let's see, 459 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 4: I could quote the judge, but they said more or 460 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 4: less what you'd think they would have said. First Amendment, 461 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 4: et cetera. Utterly unracially not I mean completely not racially 462 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 4: insensitive or mean or Yeah, that is absolutely nuts. 463 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 2: Let's see. 464 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 4: Speaking of nuts, the University of Kansas, Jack, your quasi 465 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 4: alma mater, I. 466 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 2: Went for an entire year courses who graduated there? Wow? Wow, 467 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 2: rock chock jayhawk, I know you're a big fan. 468 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 4: University of Kansas DO is offering a course in the 469 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 4: fall called Angry White Male Studies that will examine the 470 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 4: rise of the angry white male in the United States. 471 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 4: The course will be offered with the goal of teaching 472 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 4: about the prominent figure that is the angry white male. 473 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 2: That's exciting. I got a half of an MBA from there, 474 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 2: so that's probably why I've gone out in the world 475 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 2: and done a half assed job of being a business person. 476 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 2: And finally, this, ah, is this even worth trying? I 477 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 2: don't know. 478 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 4: It's a think piece, and a really good one written 479 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 4: by a fellow named Brandon, last name withheld entitled stoner 480 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 4: logic in academia. And he's talking about in particular Michelle 481 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 4: Foucault French Bastard. It looks like foul called, but it's 482 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 4: pronounced full call French Bastard, who is one of the 483 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 4: most cited intellectuals in American universities today. Kids hear his 484 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 4: ideas more than virtually anybody's. He is one of the 485 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 4: founding fathers of critical theory and neo Marxism. 486 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 2: I know that from listening to James Lindsay go on 487 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 2: and on about this human being. 488 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 4: Indeed, and if you would like, read his in Helen 489 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 4: Pluckrose's brilliant Cynical Theories anyway, So it's all about how 490 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 4: this guy was a bright stoner who liked to read 491 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 4: and learn stuff, but he never really felt like applying 492 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 4: himself at college and that sort of stuff. But he 493 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 4: realized he really needed more formal education and somebody to 494 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 4: help lead him if he was going to get anywhere 495 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 4: in his life. And he went to college and found 496 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 4: that a lot of what they were trying to teach 497 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 4: was stoner logic stone and he explains that one day 498 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 4: a lecturer. This is my favorite example, a highly esteemed 499 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 4: scholar launched into a shallow Fucoyan analysis of something or 500 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 4: other as it applied to the university. He went on 501 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 4: and on with a sort of smug self awareness, like 502 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 4: he thought he was delivering gold and absolutely blowing our minds. 503 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 4: He says, I should note here that this lecturer is 504 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 4: really likable and a genuinely nice person. Look at this classroom, 505 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 4: said the lecturer. Look at how the very structure of 506 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 4: this classroom exerts power. You are all on one side, 507 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 4: stepped up in auditorium seating, so I can see all 508 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 4: of you, but you can only see me, not each other. 509 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 4: You are kind of forced to look and listen. 510 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, con true, But watch, he continued. 511 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 4: The construction of this lecture theater exerts a system of 512 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 4: power and ensures the self perception of you, the students, 513 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 4: as lacking knowledge, and it sets me up as the 514 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 4: distributor of knowledge, and thus it conveys power. 515 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 2: And for what I'm paying, I hope you're not a 516 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 2: distributor of knowledge. You're getting ahead of us. But you're 517 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 2: absolutely right. 518 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 4: These systems of power are everywhere hidden in the architecture 519 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 4: and the systems of our society. Design to maintain and 520 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 4: designed to maintain the continuity of power. 521 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 2: Oh my god, and this guy. 522 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 4: Who's writing of really likes his I remember being thoroughly unimpressed. 523 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 4: This was exactly the kind of simple, fact free, intuitive 524 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 4: analysis than I and other high school graduates had arrived 525 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 4: at many times while sitting around a bong, and it 526 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 4: wasn't even accurate. I remember thinking that since class sizes 527 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 4: tend to be smaller university, ninety percent of the teaching 528 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 4: rooms were not stepped auditoriums. They were smaller, flat office 529 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 4: like rooms, perfect for egalitarian, discussion oriented classes. The only 530 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 4: rooms with this structure were the few lecture theaters intended 531 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 4: for hosting large audiences, and in any case, they clearly 532 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 4: had that structure for acoustic and a communicative reasons, not 533 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 4: because our neoliberal overlords wanted to inculcate us in some 534 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 4: sort of pliable consciousness lest we threaten their systems of power. 535 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 2: Oh much more. 536 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 4: That is so hilarious to your point, Jack, there was 537 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 4: a knowledge differential between us and him, At least there 538 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 4: was supposed to be. We were there, as young people 539 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 4: with less knowledge to be educated by a more knowledge teacher. 540 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 2: I couldn't see how pointing. 541 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 4: This out at this obvious fact was some kind of 542 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 4: mind blowing revelation, and then a couple more sentences then 543 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 4: I'll stop. 544 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 2: Uh. 545 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 4: Crucially, while he had an issue with these systems of 546 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 4: power inherent in the structure of the lecture theater, he 547 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 4: apparently had no objection to the avert power required to 548 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 4: make students pay for a core curriculum of course is 549 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 4: he helped design, then he teaches, and for which they 550 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 4: had to buy the compulsory textbook right that he co 551 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 4: wrote for ridiculous. 552 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 2: He didn't have any problem with that system of power, right, 553 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 2: and the insane charge for books that whole scamp. 554 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 4: So his point is the whole critical thinking thing, and 555 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 4: that's what the course was, was just a way to 556 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 4: indoctrinate students into a simplistic worldview. 557 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: Your boss has a bigger office, makes more money than you. Yeah, 558 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 2: he's somebody's got to be the boss, and he has 559 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 2: the experience and the expertise to be the boss and 560 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 2: manage us. So the company can what are you talking about? 561 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 4: But then they apply that stoner logic free analysis to 562 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,479 Speaker 4: like everything, including the oppressor. The person with more power 563 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 4: is always wrong, and the person with less power is 564 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 4: always right. 565 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 2: I mean, what an idiotic notion. I've said more than once. 566 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 4: If my dog expressed that idea to me, I would 567 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 4: hit him with a rolled up newspaper for being so stupid, 568 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,719 Speaker 4: and I do not have Oh my god, the bloom 569 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 4: is really off the roads for climate change and all 570 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 4: kinds of stuff that's green, among other things we can 571 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 4: talk about. 572 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 2: Stay here. Have you ever been tempted to lick a battery? Well, 573 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 2: there's no need. 574 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 5: You can just buy these nine volt battery flavored tortilla 575 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 5: chips instead. It's been a while since I last licked 576 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 5: a battery. Let's first up, see how that tastes yah 577 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 5: tingly metallic? 578 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 7: He can't wait to eat these now a lot less 579 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 7: immediate electric. Well, these do have those as a sort 580 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 7: of minerally metallic off to taste, but it does kind 581 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 7: of taste. 582 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 2: Like a battery. Final verdict is that nine vaut. 583 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 5: Battery to chip do beat licking an actual battery. 584 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 2: So there are chips that are supposed to taste like 585 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 2: licking a battery. Yeah, supposed to taste like a nine 586 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 2: vault battery. Okay for people who do that sort of thing. 587 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 4: As a guy who has touched my tongue to. I 588 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 4: think licked over states what happens. But as somebody who's 589 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 4: touched my tongue to many nine volt batteries, the idea 590 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 4: of designing tortilla chips that way is insane. 591 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 2: Katie just made her what the hell are you talking about? Face? 592 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 6: This whole segment just shows why women live longer than 593 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 6: you guys all sticking your tongue see nine vaults. 594 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 2: I'll tell you check to see if it's still worth 595 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 2: worth it. 596 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 4: If there's voltage, it's still like in if you're in 597 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 4: a rock and roll band. Now you know, toward the 598 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 4: end of my career of making mediocre music in front 599 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 4: of drunks. No offense to our audiences who are wonderful, 600 00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:01,479 Speaker 4: but stop boxes, your distortion, your tuner. It's just all 601 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 4: your stump boxes were powered by nine volt batteries. Toward 602 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,360 Speaker 4: the end, they're powered by cords. I got a better setup. 603 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 4: But so if something in your signal chain wasn't working, 604 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 4: the first thing you'd do is check if the battery 605 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 4: still had juice. You can eliminate that as an issue 606 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 4: you that's the way to do it. 607 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 2: I'm wondering, what do you what do you do, Like 608 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 2: if your toilet gets clogged, well, shove your arm down 609 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 2: deep in there. You fish around, see what's going on naturally. 610 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 2: So my son, who's a very artistic and art minded, 611 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 2: he heard the story about the guy who had the 612 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 2: banana tape to the wall and sold it for a 613 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 2: couple of million dollars. You remember that story, sure, So 614 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 2: he's trying to get in on that action. So he 615 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 2: crafted something he thought about over the weekend. It's just 616 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 2: a cardboard box and he just says box on it, 617 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 2: and he thinks he can sell it. And so he's 618 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 2: trying to figure out where to get into an art 619 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 2: auction or anything like that. But he wrote the description 620 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 2: for it. He spent some time online going around a 621 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 2: different crap, and he put this together yesterday. He's gonna 622 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,879 Speaker 2: he thinks he can make a million dollars. He's already 623 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 2: figured out how he's gonna spend the money. It's just 624 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 2: a cardboard box. This piece symbolizes the struggle of humanity 625 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 2: toward the common era, the unwariness of the unknown, the 626 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 2: common misconception of life as a whole, an illusion of 627 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 2: what can be, toward the unravelment of the mind. Of 628 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,360 Speaker 2: a youth. This flat, pure emotion cannot be recreated. It 629 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 2: truly is a piece for the ages. This is a box, 630 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 2: that's his description. He feel it's as good as the 631 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 2: banana tape to the wall. 632 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 4: I feel like, as a fool with more money than sense, 633 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 4: I need some reference to the structure. I mean, just 634 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 4: even the most thin reference to the cube shape. 635 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 2: That's just something, right, the four corners of humanity or something. 636 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 4: It's it's literally anything. I'll trust Henry to come up 637 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 4: with that. Look, I got seven hundred K. 638 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 2: For you, but that's as high as I go. Oh 639 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,720 Speaker 2: my god. Consumer confidence is up, at least partially because 640 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 2: we feel like the whole tariff thing worked out. I 641 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 2: guess you got some details on that, the one of 642 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,799 Speaker 2: the biggest deals in economic history worldwide that Trump put 643 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 2: together yesterday, among other things. At hour three, Armstrong and 644 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 2: Getty