Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and get taking and now he armstrong and yetty.
Speaker 2: So this is really it is self mutilation.
Speaker 1: America is hurting itself.
Speaker 2: We think that it is utterly crazy, and.
Speaker 3: We're also really really angry at you.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 5: To quote Charles Barkley, a lot of the things a
Speaker 5: lot of people at the Super Bowl have beer and guac.
Speaker 5: All of it comes from much of it comes from Mexico,
Speaker 5: and the prices of these things are likely to go.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you, we have a thug and charge
Speaker 6: of the United States, and if we don't wake up,
Speaker 6: we may not have a United States.
Speaker 3: And then New York Times, empowered by President Trump, Elon
Speaker 3: Musk is waging a largely unchecked war against government, one
Speaker 3: that already is far reaching consequences. As mentioned earlier, I
Speaker 3: was watching some MSNBC last night, and they.
Speaker 2: Were really.
Speaker 3: Horrified at the idea of any government agencies that might
Speaker 3: be shut down or reduced in size, or god forbid,
Speaker 3: federal employees losing their jobs.
Speaker 2: Yet another it's not a rar shock test. It's just
Speaker 2: a dividing line. I guess.
Speaker 3: I guess it's the old there are two kinds of people.
Speaker 3: You hear the government's gonna shrink, you're either thrilled or
Speaker 3: you're horrified. I guess I can't imagine being horrified. It's
Speaker 3: just so clearly to me, Hey, oh good, they're gonna
Speaker 3: lay off federal employees. I just assume that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: We'll figure out a way without them if they're needed
Speaker 3: at all. As opposed to it's just awful. And so
Speaker 3: a friend of the show sponsored the show sent me
Speaker 3: a link to a Reddit thread.
Speaker 2: He said, you ought to take a look at this.
Speaker 2: Lots and lots of.
Speaker 3: Fed workers and reading through it as I have been
Speaker 3: during the commercial breaks, they clearly are people. There's one
Speaker 3: guy said, I'm third generation federal worker. Oh oh, but
Speaker 3: they clearly feel like they're a like they work at
Speaker 3: General Motors. They're a needed employee and they should never
Speaker 3: have to face the realities of the world ever again,
Speaker 3: in any way. No matter how things change technologically, or
Speaker 3: we decide your agency isn't doing any good or whatever
Speaker 3: the reason, there should be nothing but good salaries, lifetime
Speaker 3: and play employment pension at the end of the road.
Speaker 2: It's nut. It's not like that for the rest of us.
Speaker 7: Do you know that.
Speaker 2: It's not like that for the rest of us. Do
Speaker 2: you know that for the rest of us?
Speaker 3: We all know people that out of nowhere, out of
Speaker 3: the clear blue sky, as they say, one day, the
Speaker 3: boss just fires everybody, and you can't get a job
Speaker 3: in your industry and you have to learn new skill
Speaker 3: and start all over again.
Speaker 2: That happens all the freaking time.
Speaker 1: Or you moved to the next state or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still remember. And this is a contrast, obviously with
Speaker 1: the third generation federal employee. I remember a conversation that
Speaker 1: was both funny and made an impression on me with
Speaker 1: my dad many many years ago, as I was enduring
Speaker 1: the insanity of the career I chose, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, Dad, sometimes there are days I wish I'd
Speaker 1: picked a more steady career, a little more job security.
Speaker 1: And he said, which one is That exactly essentially work.
Speaker 1: They all have ups and downs, but there is a
Speaker 1: whole cohort of people who never has to deal with that.
Speaker 1: Can imagine dealing with that, and considers dealing with even
Speaker 1: a taste of it to be utterly immoral, just unacceptable.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I was listening to a podcast the other day Charlie
Speaker 3: Cook of the National Review is going through the history
Speaker 3: of government employees, and I need to go back to
Speaker 3: that podcast and see if you referenced a book or
Speaker 3: an article or something, because I thought it was really
Speaker 3: interesting because we didn't really have hardly any federal employees
Speaker 3: at all until the twentieth century, and a lot of
Speaker 3: it grew out of Prohibition and the need for a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of people to facilitate that.
Speaker 2: Big change in life and the law.
Speaker 3: But the original idea with federal employees was it's not
Speaker 3: going to pay near as well as you would make
Speaker 3: out there in the real world, but you probably won't
Speaker 3: get fired.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of job security.
Speaker 3: And then over the years it's grown into pays well
Speaker 3: and you have tons of benefits and you get to
Speaker 3: retire early and you can't get fired.
Speaker 2: And that's just nuts.
Speaker 3: And if you're like if your third generation where your
Speaker 3: dad did it or whatever, or even doing it since
Speaker 3: you got out of college, you just feel like this
Speaker 3: is the way the world is. I don't know any different,
Speaker 3: you know, you mean, why can't I count on having
Speaker 3: this job for the rest of my life and then
Speaker 3: retire with a good retirement, right right. It's ridiculous that
Speaker 3: we've crafted this expectation for so many people.
Speaker 1: Yet it's a disease, and democracies a disease have developed economies.
Speaker 2: Europe's worse, right, and I don't know how you'd ever
Speaker 2: unwind it. Well.
Speaker 3: Trump and Elon are trying. Oh yeah, even if they
Speaker 3: do an okay job, that's better than no job at all.
Speaker 3: We got this text and I only know some about it.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll endeavor to learn more about it. My lib
Speaker 3: friends are up in arms about Elon and his team
Speaker 3: having access to the Treasury payment system. This is a
Speaker 3: big focus on CNN and MSNBC all day yesterday. I
Speaker 3: haven't seen or heard much about this anywhere else aside
Speaker 3: from their hysterical rantings. Can you please discuss this and
Speaker 3: help me understand what's going on. Elon got records that
Speaker 3: the left is claiming anyway that he has no right
Speaker 3: to have, and it's an example of the oligarch getting
Speaker 3: into government, an unelected bureauc an unelected billionaire, the richest
Speaker 3: man in the world getting private.
Speaker 2: Information, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: First of all, just the idea of an unelected bureaucrat
Speaker 3: having an influence on the federal government and spending and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding? I mean, is that a joke?
Speaker 1: Have you been paying attention? You know, as long as
Speaker 1: we're talking about this forty two Michael Jamie Raskin always
Speaker 1: good for outrage. He wakes up in the morning outraged
Speaker 1: and then pokes himself with sharp sticks, just make sure
Speaker 1: he's really on edge.
Speaker 7: And just like the president who is elected to something
Speaker 7: cannot impound the money of the people. We don't have
Speaker 7: a fourth branch of government called elon musk.
Speaker 2: And that's going to become real clear.
Speaker 1: That's Democrats, as they have for hundreds of years, standing
Speaker 1: up against unelected bureaucrats and agencies who run your life
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: What that's going to work? Though? It's good populism, it's.
Speaker 3: A for the crowd that automatically sees a billionaire as
Speaker 3: a bad guy.
Speaker 2: I see the government is a bad guy.
Speaker 1: All right, let me try one more. The gal from
Speaker 1: Somalia ilhan Omar forty three.
Speaker 6: We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on
Speaker 6: day one, and here we are. This is what the
Speaker 6: beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you got the constitution
Speaker 6: and you install yourself as the sole power. That is
Speaker 6: how dictators are made.
Speaker 1: I don't see the new dictator is trying to reduce
Speaker 1: the power of the government. I don't think he understands
Speaker 1: what dictating is.
Speaker 2: I just don't have time for that anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And then he sees control of the government, said,
Speaker 1: we're going to be less powerful and less interestive in
Speaker 1: your life. A monster.
Speaker 3: What percentage of federal workers are needed for the federal
Speaker 3: government to continue to do what it does? I know
Speaker 3: there's no way to actually get down to the bottom
Speaker 3: of that. Remember when Elon took over Twitter, he walked around,
Speaker 3: what do he say? He thought it like three out
Speaker 3: of four people weren't needed. That's about how many he
Speaker 3: got rid of. I don't know what it is in
Speaker 3: the federal government. I would love to know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go department by department. It would vary wildly, like
Speaker 1: some of the stuff Trump is doing with the FBI.
Speaker 1: I think it's too far, it's too fast. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: if some dude got assigned by his boss Hey, you
Speaker 1: need to look into the January sixth thing. I want
Speaker 1: you to track down these five leads. You can't fire
Speaker 1: him for that, that's just wrong. Okay. Having said that,
Speaker 1: you move over to the Department of Education, which really
Speaker 1: doesn't need to exist at all, or if it does,
Speaker 1: it ought to have a very very narrow focus. Maybe
Speaker 1: do some nationwide testing to tract certain statistics. But honestly,
Speaker 1: there are other department they could do it. It depends.
Speaker 1: It varies vastly.
Speaker 3: You know, there are federal agencies out there that if
Speaker 3: they disappeared from the planet today, nobody would notice, nobody
Speaker 3: but their their employees. Right, yeah, how do you get
Speaker 3: rid of those?
Speaker 1: What's even the most cursory job of Hey, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna have the you know, anybody tracking these numbers? Can
Speaker 1: you guys do that at commerce commerce and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine, all right? That would that would be like
Speaker 1: all of the change that needed to take place. What's
Speaker 1: the what's the website? Okay, got it? Thanks, yet, we'll
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: I know somebody I wish I could tell this story.
Speaker 3: I know somebody, and I almost admire them. They they're
Speaker 3: on the older end and they're teaching their adult like
Speaker 3: in their fifties children to do the same thing. They're
Speaker 3: really good at knowing what all the government levers and
Speaker 3: programs are out there, and there's tons of them, And
Speaker 3: I mean, if you make that your focus, there's there
Speaker 3: are a lot of to avoid taxes.
Speaker 2: Or or make money or whatever. If that's what you're into.
Speaker 3: I don't want that stuff to exist, So I've never
Speaker 3: really wanted to participate in it.
Speaker 2: But if you can, maybe you're maybe you're just smarter
Speaker 2: to do that. God, I wish I could.
Speaker 3: I wish I could give the example because it's such
Speaker 3: a great example of taking advantage of a program that
Speaker 3: probably shouldn't exist or was well intentioned, but can be
Speaker 3: manipulated so easily.
Speaker 1: Well, and you have folks who emigrated from various totalitarian
Speaker 1: countries were the only way to get anything is to
Speaker 1: manipulate the system, and they're incredibly skilled at it. They're
Speaker 1: good at it. Uh, you know, and this is worth mentioning.
Speaker 1: Al Anonymous who's a friend just texted public pensions are
Speaker 1: destroying city, county and state budgets his little town struggling
Speaker 1: to put in place the damn services we already pay
Speaker 1: for due to past and current pension liabilities, hammering the budget.
Speaker 1: It's it's happening all across Blue states, Illinois, California. Terrible
Speaker 1: situation with it the prostitute politicians, and I apologize to
Speaker 1: sex workers for comparing you to politicians. They promised the
Speaker 1: public employee unions, which again should not exist in the forum,
Speaker 1: they do enormous benefits because they knew budgetarily, they couldn't
Speaker 1: up their pay at the present moment. The numbers just
Speaker 1: didn't work. And so when the union lawyers were negotiating
Speaker 1: with the former union lawyers across the table from them
Speaker 1: for what they would get, the quote unquote government, which
Speaker 1: is union lawyers in California, said we can't give you
Speaker 1: much higher pay, but we can give you much much
Speaker 1: better benefits down the road because future politicians and future
Speaker 1: prostitutes will have to pay for it, and that'll be
Speaker 1: their problem. Politstitutes will have to pay for it, it
Speaker 1: won't be our problem. So that's what they did. And
Speaker 1: now that bill has come and doe and it's wrecking
Speaker 1: the finances of all sorts of municipal and county governments
Speaker 1: in Blue states. It was utterly predictable. I was shouting
Speaker 1: about it at the time, but nobody cared.
Speaker 2: A couple of things I want to get to when
Speaker 2: we come back.
Speaker 3: This out about microplastics and how much we got in
Speaker 3: our brain and where it likely comes from.
Speaker 2: Kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: Also, was listening to a podcast the other day, what's
Speaker 3: the latest thinking on when AI is going to really
Speaker 3: become a part of our lives. It's moved back some
Speaker 3: which I was kind of happy to hear, among other
Speaker 3: things on the way State which.
Speaker 8: Medical breakthrough at north Well Health Feinstein Institute for Medical Research,
Speaker 8: where lead bioengineer Chad Boughten that his team developed a
Speaker 8: technology they call a double neural bypass. Chips are implanted
Speaker 8: in a patient's brain and the signals for sensation and
Speaker 8: movement sent back and interpreted through artificial intelligence, and then
Speaker 8: redirected to the body and spine, creating a loop that
Speaker 8: could prove life changing. Taking someone who had lost the
Speaker 8: ability to move their limbs to sense or touch things
Speaker 8: and actually feel the sensation of that to restore those
Speaker 8: abilities to the patient.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: We have finally discovered that the signals the brain are
Speaker 3: still there and strong even after traumatic injury. Man, it's
Speaker 3: amazing I wonder if that's going to happen in my lifetime.
Speaker 3: That is really, really something. I'm sure that'll be expensive
Speaker 3: as all hell, but things get cheaper over time. So
Speaker 3: you got great breakthroughs like that moving forward. Then you got,
Speaker 3: you know, all the things that set us back. First
Speaker 3: of all, human nature that never changes. You got people
Speaker 3: all around the world killing each other over you know,
Speaker 3: their version of God or Land or whatever the hell.
Speaker 3: And also all the microplastics in our brain. Study out
Speaker 3: today that we've got about a spoons worth of micro
Speaker 3: plastics in our brain the average person, and it's not
Speaker 3: supposed to be there, and it's probably not good, although
Speaker 3: they don't exactly know what it's doing. The most common microplastic,
Speaker 3: according to this new study, is polyethylene, widely used in
Speaker 3: packaging materials like bottles and cups. So we're getting it
Speaker 3: through this plastic bottle I'm holding in my end right
Speaker 3: now that I'm drinking out of, getting a little bit
Speaker 3: of dos of plastic with it all the time. What's more,
Speaker 3: many of these particles are smaller than previously thought. Some
Speaker 3: of them are no bigger than viruses, and the problem
Speaker 3: with that is they're small enough to cross the blood
Speaker 3: brain barrier and get into our brain. Our brains are
Speaker 3: built in such a way that a lot of bad
Speaker 3: things in our body can't get into our brain, but
Speaker 3: these things are small enough to actually get in their brain.
Speaker 3: So that's with a spoonful of plastic in your brain.
Speaker 3: The primary root of entry is through our food, particularly meat.
Speaker 3: The researchers thing say, the way we irrigate fields with
Speaker 3: plastic contaminated water, we postulate that the plastics build up there,
Speaker 3: We feed those crops to our livestock, we take them,
Speaker 3: maneuver and put it back in the field. So there's
Speaker 3: sort of a feed forward biomagnification loop of just constantly
Speaker 3: reinforcing the plastics until it gets.
Speaker 2: Wedged in your brain. Wow, for better or worse.
Speaker 3: So there's that, and it's either the biggest deal in
Speaker 3: the world or nothing, or somewhere in between.
Speaker 2: Another thing.
Speaker 3: I was listening to a very long Lex Freedman podcast
Speaker 3: the other day about AI and I take his recommendations
Speaker 3: because he talks to all the smartest people in the
Speaker 3: world about AI all the time, all the very very
Speaker 3: smartest people, and so he has an idea of where
Speaker 3: they're thinking. Is he and the guests he had on
Speaker 3: think we're about twenty thirty is when we'll get to
Speaker 3: AGI artificial general intelligence, and that will be the big
Speaker 3: leap forward in AI that we're not close to yet.
Speaker 3: That's why a lot of these fanciful projections we've all
Speaker 3: heard haven't happened yet, because we haven't reached the AGI
Speaker 3: part where artificial intelligence starts learning on its own and
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. He does think, though the experts
Speaker 3: do think that when that happens, it will be like
Speaker 3: when nuclear weapons landed on the planet, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: everything is different. You have to restructure society or think
Speaker 3: about different things, and that will happen around twenty thirty,
Speaker 3: which is not that far off. Lex Friedman used the
Speaker 3: example of being able to send a multitude of like
Speaker 3: virus drones at power plants and shut down power all
Speaker 3: across the United States overnight and.
Speaker 1: Talking like virus given the flu or computer virus.
Speaker 3: Computer virus, okay, that with artificial general intellgents can just
Speaker 3: figure out what it's got to be to get in
Speaker 3: to do the damage it's got to do, and that
Speaker 3: could be that could easily happen in five years and
Speaker 3: then overnight it would be Okay, the world's completely different now.
Speaker 3: Any bad actor can shut down anything and not what
Speaker 3: For instance, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Was just reading how Chinese and was it Russian hacker
Speaker 1: or somebody using American AI tools that already exists to
Speaker 1: hack into our systems and screw us number one? Thanks
Speaker 1: for buying American But secondly, yeah, that's the problem bad guys.
Speaker 1: It's not like the difficulties of buying and delivering a
Speaker 1: nuclear warhead, which has kept you know, a number of
Speaker 1: evil regimes from being a threat. Hello, Ran, so far
Speaker 1: this is anybody can access this stuff and use these weapons.
Speaker 3: Oh another limiting factor on AI that might be good
Speaker 3: news for if you don't like AI. I want to
Speaker 3: make sure I mentioned that when we come back before
Speaker 3: we move on Armstrong.
Speaker 4: And Getty, Elon Musk becomes even more powerful as his
Speaker 4: team gains access to the system that rights America's checks,
Speaker 4: that pays salaries to American workers, and makes Social Security payments,
Speaker 4: and on and on. Are there any guardrails in place,
Speaker 4: any transparency or accountability for the first body of the
Speaker 4: United States.
Speaker 3: Such Jake Tapper, part of the lefts I think fear
Speaker 3: mongering over Elon Musk's role in trying to reduce waste
Speaker 3: maybe the size of government. As Elon's team had gained
Speaker 3: access to sensitive Treasury Department data. Yesterday, a senior official
Speaker 3: at Treasury attempted to deny Musk's representatives' access to the
Speaker 3: Department's federal payment system, which is used to disperse trillions
Speaker 3: of dollars each year that's with a T and contains
Speaker 3: the personal information of millions of Americans. So the Left
Speaker 3: is leaning on the personal information of millions of Americans
Speaker 3: and how Elon shouldn't have access to that, and he
Speaker 3: probably shouldn't, but he probably should have access to where
Speaker 3: trillions of dollars are going. And for instance, like on
Speaker 3: the US AID aspect of this, it's getting so much
Speaker 3: attention money that we send around the world, and whether
Speaker 3: or not that's being wasted. Elon said this about that yesterday.
Speaker 9: As we dug into usaid, it became apparent that what
Speaker 9: we have here is not an apple with a worm
Speaker 9: in it, but we have actually just a bowl of worms.
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio said yesterday that a lot of these people
Speaker 3: that Elon's going to Secretary of the Treasury Department, however,
Speaker 3: have been stone walling on anybody trying to look into
Speaker 3: where money goes for years and getting away with you.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, budget and turf is how big your schanz
Speaker 1: is in Washington, d C. They fight for it and
Speaker 1: guard it jealously.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want Elon to be able to do
Speaker 3: whatever he wants and do anything illegal. But I do
Speaker 3: want him to have access to where money goes, and
Speaker 3: on every level someone he needs to It doesn't have
Speaker 3: to be Elon.
Speaker 1: But at least as a study. I mean, he has
Speaker 1: no authority to make anything happen. It's just a study
Speaker 1: at this point. Yeah, they'll shake out if there are
Speaker 1: any excesses or if somebody's moving too fast. I just
Speaker 1: the forces a arraid against moving too fast and doing
Speaker 1: too much. I think they've got plenty to work with.
Speaker 1: I am not worried about, oh my gosh, we'll reduce
Speaker 1: the size of the government too fast and too much.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, really, right right?
Speaker 3: Also, Trump signed a couple of executive orders to try
Speaker 3: to do away with the Department of EDUCA. Well, that'll
Speaker 3: start that conversation going and we'll see where that ends up.
Speaker 2: The other well, there's a couple well, and look.
Speaker 1: Forward of course to it being portrayed twenty four hours
Speaker 1: a day. Is Trump is trying to end education?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Uh, Trump's going to go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: First sitting president ever attend to Super Bowl. Will he
Speaker 3: be cheered in Louisiana, New Orleans when he's announced, because
Speaker 3: obviously they'll announce it cheered or bude?
Speaker 1: Oh, the chiefs fans will cheer him. Well, I both.
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot of corporate people there that
Speaker 3: aren't fans of eating exactly.
Speaker 1: They don't cheer for anything. They sit there on their
Speaker 1: hands and then go to cocktail parties.
Speaker 3: So I want to mention one more thing I learned
Speaker 3: about Alex Friedman's podcast about AI with some of the
Speaker 3: top AI people nore one, they don't think agis come
Speaker 3: until twenty thirty, so we got at least five years
Speaker 3: before we got to worry about it.
Speaker 1: They also are vital juices or drained.
Speaker 3: Yes, even though the technology may get here, it's a
Speaker 3: reverse of the nuclear weapon thing in that like Toget
Speaker 3: had a nuclear weapon. If you watched Oppenheimer, they just
Speaker 3: kept putting the marbles in the jar of how much
Speaker 3: refined uranium we have or plutonium or whatever it is
Speaker 3: you used to make a bomb.
Speaker 2: Do we have enough? Do we have enough? Had enough?
Speaker 3: And when the jar got full, we've got enough to
Speaker 3: make a bomb. We had the rocket, so we knew
Speaker 3: how to make a bomb, we knew how to send
Speaker 3: it somewhere. We couldn't make we didn't have enough uranium
Speaker 3: to make the bomb. The problem is almost to reverse
Speaker 3: with AI. It seems that we're going to get to
Speaker 3: the technology the uranium, if you will, but not have
Speaker 3: it the amount of energy it's going to take to
Speaker 3: make these scale to a place where it could like
Speaker 3: change the world the way everybody keeps talking about where
Speaker 3: it's going to be as big as fire or the
Speaker 3: Internet or something like that. Nobody's figured out how much power,
Speaker 3: where's that power going to come from, and the number
Speaker 3: of computer chips and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: So we got we'll have.
Speaker 3: The uranium, but not the way to well, not the
Speaker 3: plane to fly the bomb somewhere.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: We could be many years away from coming up with
Speaker 3: enough electricity or energy source of some sort to run
Speaker 3: these giant plants that it would need to make AI
Speaker 3: take over the world the way everybody's talking about.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I'd love to talk to an expert or
Speaker 1: listen to more or read more about it, just because
Speaker 1: I know as much about this stuff as my dog
Speaker 1: knows about the run pass option that you'll see plenty
Speaker 1: of on Sunday during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 3: You Now, your dog's a run all the time. He's
Speaker 3: a throw the ball. Only three things could happen to
Speaker 3: the bed.
Speaker 1: Well, and he's a dog, so he's a fan of
Speaker 1: running anyway. And so the energy requirements just the requirements
Speaker 1: during the learning phase of these systems, I don't know
Speaker 1: how that differs from the when they're actually just like
Speaker 1: we've talked about how they'll eliminate the need for junior
Speaker 1: accountants and junior lawyers and junior real estate agents and
Speaker 1: all that, because that's all quickly generatable by machine. If
Speaker 1: they'll need that much energy to eliminate all those if
Speaker 1: it's just in the learning phase.
Speaker 3: No, apparently it will take tons of computer space and energy.
Speaker 3: We can't even fathom to make that happen, according to
Speaker 3: these experts. So we'll have the technology before we have
Speaker 3: you know, it's like we invented the car, but nobody
Speaker 3: has gasoline yet.
Speaker 2: There's not enough gasoline to actually as.
Speaker 1: An r site.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, so that I hadn't heard anybody say that before.
Speaker 3: And I'm in no hurry to get to artificial general
Speaker 3: intelligence taking over the world, and we're having to figure
Speaker 3: out the shakeout. So maybe that's going to slow it
Speaker 3: down a lot. Just plain lack of power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I wonder it's going to usher nuclear power
Speaker 1: back into favor, though, which is a hell of a
Speaker 1: twist I didn't see coming. No kidding, it's almost a certainty.
Speaker 1: It's the only way to get that much more power
Speaker 1: without you know, burning even more horrific amounts of fossil fuels,
Speaker 1: or how about windmill farms. Shut up. Your type is out,
Speaker 1: Our type is in. Realists.
Speaker 3: So I almost vomited before the show today, and I've
Speaker 3: spent most of the show nearly vomiting, along with many
Speaker 3: of our listeners for different reason. Mine's stomach things. Theirs
Speaker 3: is a content thing. If I had the neuro virus,
Speaker 3: I would have already. Well, No, noumal virus went through
Speaker 3: my You said the neuro virus is sweeping the nation.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's here, there and everywhere.
Speaker 3: Noma virus went through my house many years ago. And
Speaker 3: everybody got sick except me. So I might have some
Speaker 3: sort of natural doesn't bother me anything boo right now.
Speaker 3: But when have already shown itself. Maybe I'm pregnant.
Speaker 1: It depends that it went through my house and when
Speaker 1: we had relatives of visiting and everything, and everybody expressed it,
Speaker 1: if you will, in different ways and different severities, for
Speaker 1: different lengths of time. Yes, cite the medical tim please.
Speaker 3: To my stomach, and actually I threw up yesterday.
Speaker 2: Everybody put their own little spin on thenau.
Speaker 1: Of virus exactly. They made it their own.
Speaker 2: Just trying to get through the last seventeen minutes of
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: I hear that you want to hear something that's going
Speaker 1: to raise your spirits. Here's a little perspective for you,
Speaker 1: little damn perspective. This guy is the former president of Kenya,
Speaker 1: Uhuru Kenyata. He's talking about the USAID Department, and somebody
Speaker 1: asked him about how horrible it is that they're talking
Speaker 1: about cutting it back or reforming it or shuddering it
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's Clip number forty seven. Michael dig his chili.
Speaker 1: Would you crying? Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 10: Trump has removed money, He said, he's not giving us
Speaker 10: any more money.
Speaker 2: Why are you crying?
Speaker 10: It's not your government, is not your country.
Speaker 1: He has he has no he has.
Speaker 10: No reason to give you anything. I mean, you don't
Speaker 10: pay taxes in America.
Speaker 2: He's appealing to his people, shoure.
Speaker 10: He This is a wake up call for you to say, Okay, what.
Speaker 1: Are we going to do to help ourselves? Instead of crying.
Speaker 10: To to you, Liza, what are we going to do?
Speaker 10: I am a true are your pertification? I'm not gonnajamin?
Speaker 2: What are we going to do?
Speaker 10: Yeah, to support ourselves because nobody is going to continue
Speaker 10: holding out a hand there to give you. It is
Speaker 10: time for us to use our resources for the right things.
Speaker 10: We are the ones who are using them for the
Speaker 10: wrong things.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm voting for him if I live in Kenya.
Speaker 1: Truth teller, I salute you, Uhuru Kenyata.
Speaker 3: That little super fast talking thing he threw in the
Speaker 3: middle that was like only one car available at this price,
Speaker 3: I could have.
Speaker 1: Literally said anything, and I'm gonna hunt down Joe Getty
Speaker 1: and kill him in his sleep? What what?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: And that went by quick? But how about that? And
Speaker 1: he said it with a chuckle. Why would he give
Speaker 1: you anything. He's looking out for his own people. Do
Speaker 1: you pay taxes in the United States? No, how about
Speaker 1: you do for yourselves? Wow, that sort of person exists
Speaker 1: on Earth. It's heartening, isn't it.
Speaker 3: CNN with the big Elon musk sends Washington, DC scrambling
Speaker 3: to blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: Mark Kawpern, in his newsletter today said, the most underreported
Speaker 3: story of the beginning of the Trump turn is Elon
Speaker 3: Musk roll where it's going, his impact, et cetera, might be, might.
Speaker 1: Be, Yeah, we'll have to see it is an energy
Speaker 1: we haven't seen before, pointed in the direction we haven't
Speaker 1: seen before.
Speaker 2: But I tell you what you know.
Speaker 1: Like Jefferson said, I'd rather attend to the problems of
Speaker 1: too much freedom than too little. I would rather attend
Speaker 1: to the problems of too aggressively trying to root out waste, fraud,
Speaker 1: and abuse from the federal government than too little, which
Speaker 1: has been my entire freaking life up until now.
Speaker 2: No kidding, how about we try the other way for
Speaker 2: a minute?
Speaker 3: No kidding, no kidding, We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 11: I mean, everybody was surprised, so you can imagine how
Speaker 11: surprised I was. I was almost aslip so when I
Speaker 11: got a call, I had to check it was it
Speaker 11: was April first. I didn't really believe it at first,
Speaker 11: and it was a bit shocked. It was hard moments
Speaker 11: for me was it was home. So it was really
Speaker 11: hard moments for me, especially the first day. As I said,
Speaker 11: you know, I get to play in the greatest club
Speaker 11: in the world, and I'm excited for this new journey.
Speaker 3: So that's Luka Dancik in the lau being asked a
Speaker 3: question about being traded away from that. He's one of
Speaker 3: the biggest stars in the NBA. He's only twenty five
Speaker 3: years old. He's a fan favorite. He loved Dallas. He
Speaker 3: was part of a giant charity there that he had founded.
Speaker 3: He got a big, full page ad in the paper
Speaker 3: today to thank everybody for working on He had no idea.
Speaker 3: According to him, he had no idea. There were even
Speaker 3: any rumblings of him being traded. I mean completely out
Speaker 3: of the blue. That's not usually the way it happens
Speaker 3: with the giant stars.
Speaker 2: He was asked, was.
Speaker 3: There any hesitation from your team to sign the big
Speaker 3: You know, Dallas is going to keep me. Deal at
Speaker 3: the end of his contract. No, he said, no, nothing.
Speaker 3: I mean I just assumed I was going to be here.
Speaker 3: He got a call at night, you're leaving. We don't
Speaker 3: want you anymore. What he has no idea why either,
Speaker 3: He said he has no idea why they traded him,
Speaker 3: and that something because one of the those stars like
Speaker 3: the sport.
Speaker 1: It's not the way I pictured those things unfolding.
Speaker 3: I don't think they usually do anyway. It's going to
Speaker 3: be playing with Lebron and that'll be exciting in their
Speaker 3: first paced team. And he was in the finals last
Speaker 3: year and we'll see if he's in the finals this year.
Speaker 1: I'll be rooting against him. I hope they lose. I
Speaker 1: hope they lose all their games, because anytime you load
Speaker 1: up a team like that with super high payroll in
Speaker 1: a giant market, I just I root for him to lose.
Speaker 1: I like Luca because he's white. So he's sick, folks.
Speaker 1: He's sick. He's saying things he thinks will be funny,
Speaker 1: but he's long. I am sick, oh, speaking of race
Speaker 1: and saying things and all. I was trying to find it.
Speaker 1: I just say one quote. I think it was one
Speaker 1: of the gals of free press. Probably Nelly Bowles was
Speaker 1: writing about how how the Vice President was on Meet
Speaker 1: the Press over the weekend and JD was just absolutely
Speaker 1: carving up Margaret Brennan because she was asking him about
Speaker 1: border police and he was just parrying her with ease
Speaker 1: because he's very bright and he knows the policy and
Speaker 1: the rest of it. But she said this, We're in
Speaker 1: a new news era now, reporters actually have to think
Speaker 1: of questions. One must ask about actual border policies because
Speaker 1: border bad America is a statue of liberty. Otherwise racism
Speaker 1: isn't good enough anymore. I thought that was a great
Speaker 1: characterization of a Republican had come on and they would
Speaker 1: just be hit with border bed America is a statue
Speaker 1: of liberty, otherwise racism, and that was it. They would
Speaker 1: never be asked like intelligent questions about border policy.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: But isn't it fire good, food bad or whatever? Eh.
Speaker 1: JD's great at that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 1: He watches those damn shows with no.
Speaker 2: No, they don't, they absolutely don't.
Speaker 1: They have an effect within the Beltway. Oh, speaking of which,
Speaker 1: do we have time for this? I got a quick
Speaker 1: comment thirty seconds? All right, I'll just give you a
Speaker 1: very brief version A good old friend of the show,
Speaker 1: Mike the Lawyer pointing out everybody who's acting like they're
Speaker 1: freaking out over Elon musk Is. I'll bet those people
Speaker 1: said nothing about Anthony Fauci. If anybody controlled the entire country,
Speaker 1: it was unelected. It was him. It didn't seem concerned
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: Well, excellent example. There are many, many examples of unelected
Speaker 3: people having unbelievable power over the many years. This is
Speaker 3: the first time that's ever happened.
Speaker 2: Is hilarious?
Speaker 1: Now, all of a sudden, you're concerned. How cute? Final thought?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to grab me the other night,
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Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: There he is pressing the buttons in the control room.
Speaker 1: Are technical director at Mike Langelow Michael Final thought? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Katie told me she's going to a football party this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell she needs to check out.
Speaker 2: My cheese dip recipes.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that gets to the website. Katie,
Speaker 1: you will be the hit of the party.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I gotta make a giant cheese dip for Sunday.
Speaker 1: Delicious. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, Well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun.
Speaker 3: I have a new feature on the website at armstrong
Speaker 3: getty dot com called Katie's Corner.
Speaker 2: I put all the things that go through my head
Speaker 2: on there.
Speaker 1: As well as the video of the San Francisco broadcaster
Speaker 1: exposing ice, so you can get all of that at
Speaker 1: Armstrong getty dot Comic Case Corner.
Speaker 3: We should talk more about that tomorrow. We're getting a
Speaker 3: lot of texts about that. But it is a corner
Speaker 3: spelled with a K.
Speaker 2: No. No, it's yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: I assume Jack and Joe are a holes. Is just
Speaker 1: in like bold faced print is always up there.
Speaker 12: But yeah, anyway, Jack a final thought for us, Yeah,
Speaker 12: you don't think about it when you feel fine, but
Speaker 12: when you feel bad, you think she's that feeling fine?
Speaker 12: Sure a lot better, Sure a lot more options for
Speaker 12: me on a given day when I feel good compared
Speaker 12: to the way I feel today.
Speaker 1: I think it was health Uru and Dead Bear prank
Speaker 1: enthusiast RFK Junior, who once said the healthy man is
Speaker 1: a thousand dreams the sick man. Only one that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: That is good, and it's true.
Speaker 2: I ain't dying.
Speaker 3: I just I just feel like I'm gonna say said sick.
Speaker 1: I want to end up like that bear. Keep barging
Speaker 1: with RK Jr. Man't doesn't brook no nonsense.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getdy wraving up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 3: The bear said, I don't think vaccines cause autism, and
Speaker 3: you see what happened to it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, poor little bear.
Speaker 3: We will see tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 7: We don't have a fourth branch of governments.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty.
Speaker 9: It became a parent that what we have here is
Speaker 9: actually just a bowl of ones.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer,
Speaker 3: I don't want my dollars going towards this crap.
Speaker 2: And I did have a couple of things.
Speaker 1: You know, just say that we're extremely controversial.
Speaker 10: Hi, I'm attoy you appears I'm not going to jump in.
Speaker 1: You made it right, Les riding a long by one
Speaker 1: final message, So
Speaker 2: Bye bye, Ar'm strong and Getty