WEBVTT - I Apologize To The Sex Workers 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.920 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:17.239 I'm strong and get taking and now he armstrong and yetty. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.880 So this is really it is self mutilation. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.400 America is hurting itself. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.040 We think that it is utterly crazy, and. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.800 We're also really really angry at you. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.440 No, no, no, horrible, horrible, horrible. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.839 To quote Charles Barkley, a lot of the things a 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.280 lot of people at the Super Bowl have beer and guac. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.280 All of it comes from much of it comes from Mexico, 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.959 and the prices of these things are likely to go. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.400 Let me tell you, we have a thug and charge 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.920 of the United States, and if we don't wake up, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.640 we may not have a United States. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.960 And then New York Times, empowered by President Trump, Elon 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.040 Musk is waging a largely unchecked war against government, one 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.480 that already is far reaching consequences. As mentioned earlier, I 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.839 was watching some MSNBC last night, and they. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:24.759 Were really. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.960 Horrified at the idea of any government agencies that might 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:34.840 be shut down or reduced in size, or god forbid, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.360 federal employees losing their jobs. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:43.440 Yet another it's not a rar shock test. It's just 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:44.640 a dividing line. I guess. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.639 I guess it's the old there are two kinds of people. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.680 You hear the government's gonna shrink, you're either thrilled or 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.280 you're horrified. I guess I can't imagine being horrified. It's 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.680 just so clearly to me, Hey, oh good, they're gonna 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.240 lay off federal employees. I just assume that's a good thing. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.200 We'll figure out a way without them if they're needed 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.200 at all. As opposed to it's just awful. And so 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.680 a friend of the show sponsored the show sent me 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.480 a link to a Reddit thread. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:12.760 He said, you ought to take a look at this. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.600 Lots and lots of. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.040 Fed workers and reading through it as I have been 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.320 during the commercial breaks, they clearly are people. There's one 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.880 guy said, I'm third generation federal worker. Oh oh, but 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:31.520 they clearly feel like they're a like they work at 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.760 General Motors. They're a needed employee and they should never 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.680 have to face the realities of the world ever again, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:46.680 in any way. No matter how things change technologically, or 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.919 we decide your agency isn't doing any good or whatever 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.880 the reason, there should be nothing but good salaries, lifetime 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.600 and play employment pension at the end of the road. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.440 It's nut. It's not like that for the rest of us. 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:02.120 Do you know that. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.679 It's not like that for the rest of us. Do 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:04.880 you know that for the rest of us? 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.000 We all know people that out of nowhere, out of 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.320 the clear blue sky, as they say, one day, the 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.960 boss just fires everybody, and you can't get a job 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.560 in your industry and you have to learn new skill 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:16.480 and start all over again. 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.639 That happens all the freaking time. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.839 Or you moved to the next state or whatever. Yeah, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.800 I still remember. And this is a contrast, obviously with 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.040 the third generation federal employee. I remember a conversation that 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.840 was both funny and made an impression on me with 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.920 my dad many many years ago, as I was enduring 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.320 the insanity of the career I chose, and I said, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.520 you know, Dad, sometimes there are days I wish I'd 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.040 picked a more steady career, a little more job security. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:50.480 And he said, which one is That exactly essentially work. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.760 They all have ups and downs, but there is a 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.440 whole cohort of people who never has to deal with that. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.080 Can imagine dealing with that, and considers dealing with even 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.480 a taste of it to be utterly immoral, just unacceptable. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:07.640 Man. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.560 I was listening to a podcast the other day Charlie 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.800 Cook of the National Review is going through the history 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.240 of government employees, and I need to go back to 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.200 that podcast and see if you referenced a book or 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.320 an article or something, because I thought it was really 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.800 interesting because we didn't really have hardly any federal employees 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.080 at all until the twentieth century, and a lot of 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.080 it grew out of Prohibition and the need for a 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.120 whole bunch of people to facilitate that. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.359 Big change in life and the law. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.280 But the original idea with federal employees was it's not 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.200 going to pay near as well as you would make 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.440 out there in the real world, but you probably won't 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:44.960 get fired. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.480 I mean, there's a lot of job security. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.080 And then over the years it's grown into pays well 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.719 and you have tons of benefits and you get to 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.040 retire early and you can't get fired. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.640 And that's just nuts. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.279 And if you're like if your third generation where your 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.880 dad did it or whatever, or even doing it since 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.039 you got out of college, you just feel like this 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:06.839 is the way the world is. I don't know any different, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.040 you know, you mean, why can't I count on having 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.760 this job for the rest of my life and then 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.440 retire with a good retirement, right right. It's ridiculous that 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:21.000 we've crafted this expectation for so many people. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.320 Yet it's a disease, and democracies a disease have developed economies. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.840 Europe's worse, right, and I don't know how you'd ever 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:31.880 unwind it. Well. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.680 Trump and Elon are trying. Oh yeah, even if they 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.320 do an okay job, that's better than no job at all. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.560 We got this text and I only know some about it. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.080 Maybe we'll endeavor to learn more about it. My lib 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.560 friends are up in arms about Elon and his team 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.360 having access to the Treasury payment system. This is a 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.839 big focus on CNN and MSNBC all day yesterday. I 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.640 haven't seen or heard much about this anywhere else aside 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.040 from their hysterical rantings. Can you please discuss this and 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.880 help me understand what's going on. Elon got records that 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.400 the left is claiming anyway that he has no right 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:10.480 to have, and it's an example of the oligarch getting 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:15.120 into government, an unelected bureauc an unelected billionaire, the richest 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.039 man in the world getting private. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.040 Information, et cetera, et cetera. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.240 First of all, just the idea of an unelected bureaucrat 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.080 having an influence on the federal government and spending and 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:25.640 stuff like that. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.000 Are you kidding? I mean, is that a joke? 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.800 Have you been paying attention? You know, as long as 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.680 we're talking about this forty two Michael Jamie Raskin always 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.680 good for outrage. He wakes up in the morning outraged 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.280 and then pokes himself with sharp sticks, just make sure 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:40.320 he's really on edge. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.400 And just like the president who is elected to something 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.720 cannot impound the money of the people. We don't have 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.280 a fourth branch of government called elon musk. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.719 And that's going to become real clear. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.719 That's Democrats, as they have for hundreds of years, standing 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:04.240 up against unelected bureaucrats and agencies who run your life 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:04.640 for you. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.320 What that's going to work? Though? It's good populism, it's. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:12.400 A for the crowd that automatically sees a billionaire as 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:13.000 a bad guy. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.280 I see the government is a bad guy. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.800 All right, let me try one more. The gal from 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.560 Somalia ilhan Omar forty three. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.720 We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:30.600 day one, and here we are. This is what the 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:36.280 beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you got the constitution 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.880 and you install yourself as the sole power. That is 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.920 how dictators are made. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.480 I don't see the new dictator is trying to reduce 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.480 the power of the government. I don't think he understands 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:53.520 what dictating is. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.760 I just don't have time for that anymore. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.400 Oh my god. And then he sees control of the government, said, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.600 we're going to be less powerful and less interestive in 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.560 your life. A monster. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.320 What percentage of federal workers are needed for the federal 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.520 government to continue to do what it does? I know 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.239 there's no way to actually get down to the bottom 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.760 of that. Remember when Elon took over Twitter, he walked around, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.680 what do he say? He thought it like three out 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.960 of four people weren't needed. That's about how many he 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.520 got rid of. I don't know what it is in 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:25.880 the federal government. I would love to know. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.520 Yeah, go department by department. It would vary wildly, like 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.600 some of the stuff Trump is doing with the FBI. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.680 I think it's too far, it's too fast. It's I mean, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.600 if some dude got assigned by his boss Hey, you 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.560 need to look into the January sixth thing. I want 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.920 you to track down these five leads. You can't fire 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:47.000 him for that, that's just wrong. Okay. Having said that, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.400 you move over to the Department of Education, which really 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.280 doesn't need to exist at all, or if it does, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.480 it ought to have a very very narrow focus. Maybe 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:59.280 do some nationwide testing to tract certain statistics. But honestly, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.160 there are other department they could do it. It depends. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:03.440 It varies vastly. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.320 You know, there are federal agencies out there that if 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.560 they disappeared from the planet today, nobody would notice, nobody 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:15.200 but their their employees. Right, yeah, how do you get 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:15.800 rid of those? 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.080 What's even the most cursory job of Hey, we're not 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.920 gonna have the you know, anybody tracking these numbers? Can 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.360 you guys do that at commerce commerce and say, yeah, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.720 that's fine, all right? That would that would be like 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:34.480 all of the change that needed to take place. What's 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.840 the what's the website? Okay, got it? Thanks, yet, we'll 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:38.120 do it. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.199 I know somebody I wish I could tell this story. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.560 I know somebody, and I almost admire them. They they're 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.680 on the older end and they're teaching their adult like 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.160 in their fifties children to do the same thing. They're 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.680 really good at knowing what all the government levers and 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.800 programs are out there, and there's tons of them, And 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.160 I mean, if you make that your focus, there's there 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.960 are a lot of to avoid taxes. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.680 Or or make money or whatever. If that's what you're into. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.520 I don't want that stuff to exist, So I've never 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.000 really wanted to participate in it. 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.200 But if you can, maybe you're maybe you're just smarter 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.160 to do that. God, I wish I could. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.400 I wish I could give the example because it's such 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.720 a great example of taking advantage of a program that 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.440 probably shouldn't exist or was well intentioned, but can be 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:25.880 manipulated so easily. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.600 Well, and you have folks who emigrated from various totalitarian 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.760 countries were the only way to get anything is to 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.360 manipulate the system, and they're incredibly skilled at it. They're 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.200 good at it. Uh, you know, and this is worth mentioning. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.520 Al Anonymous who's a friend just texted public pensions are 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.679 destroying city, county and state budgets his little town struggling 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.240 to put in place the damn services we already pay 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.080 for due to past and current pension liabilities, hammering the budget. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.760 It's it's happening all across Blue states, Illinois, California. Terrible 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:00.760 situation with it the prostitute politicians, and I apologize to 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.480 sex workers for comparing you to politicians. They promised the 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.200 public employee unions, which again should not exist in the forum, 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:12.920 they do enormous benefits because they knew budgetarily, they couldn't 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.720 up their pay at the present moment. The numbers just 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.440 didn't work. And so when the union lawyers were negotiating 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.240 with the former union lawyers across the table from them 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.240 for what they would get, the quote unquote government, which 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.679 is union lawyers in California, said we can't give you 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.720 much higher pay, but we can give you much much 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.920 better benefits down the road because future politicians and future 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.440 prostitutes will have to pay for it, and that'll be 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.680 their problem. Politstitutes will have to pay for it, it 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.960 won't be our problem. So that's what they did. And 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.160 now that bill has come and doe and it's wrecking 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.920 the finances of all sorts of municipal and county governments 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.800 in Blue states. It was utterly predictable. I was shouting 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.280 about it at the time, but nobody cared. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.040 A couple of things I want to get to when 0:11:59.080 --> 0:11:59.560 we come back. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.040 This out about microplastics and how much we got in 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.959 our brain and where it likely comes from. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:04.760 Kind of interesting. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.680 Also, was listening to a podcast the other day, what's 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.880 the latest thinking on when AI is going to really 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.319 become a part of our lives. It's moved back some 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.000 which I was kind of happy to hear, among other 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.480 things on the way State which. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.680 Medical breakthrough at north Well Health Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.880 where lead bioengineer Chad Boughten that his team developed a 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.360 technology they call a double neural bypass. Chips are implanted 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.080 in a patient's brain and the signals for sensation and 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.040 movement sent back and interpreted through artificial intelligence, and then 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.280 redirected to the body and spine, creating a loop that 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.199 could prove life changing. Taking someone who had lost the 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.480 ability to move their limbs to sense or touch things 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.320 and actually feel the sensation of that to restore those 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:55.600 abilities to the patient. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.040 Yes, that's exactly right. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.920 We have finally discovered that the signals the brain are 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.080 still there and strong even after traumatic injury. Man, it's 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.400 amazing I wonder if that's going to happen in my lifetime. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.880 That is really, really something. I'm sure that'll be expensive 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:18.400 as all hell, but things get cheaper over time. So 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.199 you got great breakthroughs like that moving forward. Then you got, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.400 you know, all the things that set us back. First 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.480 of all, human nature that never changes. You got people 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.720 all around the world killing each other over you know, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.280 their version of God or Land or whatever the hell. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.000 And also all the microplastics in our brain. Study out 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.840 today that we've got about a spoons worth of micro 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.720 plastics in our brain the average person, and it's not 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.440 supposed to be there, and it's probably not good, although 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.520 they don't exactly know what it's doing. The most common microplastic, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:56.400 according to this new study, is polyethylene, widely used in 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.880 packaging materials like bottles and cups. So we're getting it 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.960 through this plastic bottle I'm holding in my end right 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:05.720 now that I'm drinking out of, getting a little bit 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.360 of dos of plastic with it all the time. What's more, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.199 many of these particles are smaller than previously thought. Some 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.960 of them are no bigger than viruses, and the problem 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.440 with that is they're small enough to cross the blood 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.000 brain barrier and get into our brain. Our brains are 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.720 built in such a way that a lot of bad 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.520 things in our body can't get into our brain, but 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.680 these things are small enough to actually get in their brain. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.480 So that's with a spoonful of plastic in your brain. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.640 The primary root of entry is through our food, particularly meat. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.760 The researchers thing say, the way we irrigate fields with 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.240 plastic contaminated water, we postulate that the plastics build up there, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.480 We feed those crops to our livestock, we take them, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.440 maneuver and put it back in the field. So there's 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.480 sort of a feed forward biomagnification loop of just constantly 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.520 reinforcing the plastics until it gets. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.360 Wedged in your brain. Wow, for better or worse. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.640 So there's that, and it's either the biggest deal in 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.800 the world or nothing, or somewhere in between. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:05.880 Another thing. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.440 I was listening to a very long Lex Freedman podcast 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.760 the other day about AI and I take his recommendations 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.280 because he talks to all the smartest people in the 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.160 world about AI all the time, all the very very 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.520 smartest people, and so he has an idea of where 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.240 they're thinking. Is he and the guests he had on 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.400 think we're about twenty thirty is when we'll get to 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.760 AGI artificial general intelligence, and that will be the big 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.200 leap forward in AI that we're not close to yet. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.040 That's why a lot of these fanciful projections we've all 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.240 heard haven't happened yet, because we haven't reached the AGI 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.800 part where artificial intelligence starts learning on its own and 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.560 that sort of thing. He does think, though the experts 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.160 do think that when that happens, it will be like 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.080 when nuclear weapons landed on the planet, all of a sudden, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.120 everything is different. You have to restructure society or think 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.440 about different things, and that will happen around twenty thirty, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.160 which is not that far off. Lex Friedman used the 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:12.240 example of being able to send a multitude of like 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.120 virus drones at power plants and shut down power all 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.440 across the United States overnight and. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.280 Talking like virus given the flu or computer virus. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.040 Computer virus, okay, that with artificial general intellgents can just 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.680 figure out what it's got to be to get in 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.720 to do the damage it's got to do, and that 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.160 could be that could easily happen in five years and 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.640 then overnight it would be Okay, the world's completely different now. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.480 Any bad actor can shut down anything and not what 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.200 For instance, Yeah, I. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.400 Was just reading how Chinese and was it Russian hacker 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.600 or somebody using American AI tools that already exists to 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.240 hack into our systems and screw us number one? Thanks 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:55.320 for buying American But secondly, yeah, that's the problem bad guys. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.400 It's not like the difficulties of buying and delivering a 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.320 nuclear warhead, which has kept you know, a number of 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.440 evil regimes from being a threat. Hello, Ran, so far 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.600 this is anybody can access this stuff and use these weapons. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.960 Oh another limiting factor on AI that might be good 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.639 news for if you don't like AI. I want to 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.240 make sure I mentioned that when we come back before 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.800 we move on Armstrong. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.720 And Getty, Elon Musk becomes even more powerful as his 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.439 team gains access to the system that rights America's checks, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.760 that pays salaries to American workers, and makes Social Security payments, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.200 and on and on. Are there any guardrails in place, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.080 any transparency or accountability for the first body of the 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:37.280 United States. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:42.400 Such Jake Tapper, part of the lefts I think fear 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:48.439 mongering over Elon Musk's role in trying to reduce waste 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.959 maybe the size of government. As Elon's team had gained 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:58.240 access to sensitive Treasury Department data. Yesterday, a senior official 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:03.000 at Treasury attempted to deny Musk's representatives' access to the 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:08.800 Department's federal payment system, which is used to disperse trillions 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:14.040 of dollars each year that's with a T and contains 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.440 the personal information of millions of Americans. So the Left 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.879 is leaning on the personal information of millions of Americans 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.280 and how Elon shouldn't have access to that, and he 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.600 probably shouldn't, but he probably should have access to where 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:29.439 trillions of dollars are going. And for instance, like on 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.560 the US AID aspect of this, it's getting so much 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.160 attention money that we send around the world, and whether 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.720 or not that's being wasted. Elon said this about that yesterday. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.239 As we dug into usaid, it became apparent that what 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.960 we have here is not an apple with a worm 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.040 in it, but we have actually just a bowl of worms. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:55.000 Marco Rubio said yesterday that a lot of these people 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.240 that Elon's going to Secretary of the Treasury Department, however, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:03.359 have been stone walling on anybody trying to look into 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.600 where money goes for years and getting away with you. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.840 So, yeah, budget and turf is how big your schanz 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.040 is in Washington, d C. They fight for it and 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:14.280 guard it jealously. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.159 No, I don't want Elon to be able to do 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.919 whatever he wants and do anything illegal. But I do 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.360 want him to have access to where money goes, and 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.320 on every level someone he needs to It doesn't have 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:26.080 to be Elon. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.760 But at least as a study. I mean, he has 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.560 no authority to make anything happen. It's just a study 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.720 at this point. Yeah, they'll shake out if there are 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.240 any excesses or if somebody's moving too fast. I just 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:43.159 the forces a arraid against moving too fast and doing 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.959 too much. I think they've got plenty to work with. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.080 I am not worried about, oh my gosh, we'll reduce 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.840 the size of the government too fast and too much. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:55.880 I mean, come on, really, right right? 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.680 Also, Trump signed a couple of executive orders to try 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.680 to do away with the Department of EDUCA. Well, that'll 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.399 start that conversation going and we'll see where that ends up. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.160 The other well, there's a couple well, and look. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.080 Forward of course to it being portrayed twenty four hours 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.240 a day. Is Trump is trying to end education? 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.480 Yeah? Uh, Trump's going to go to the super Bowl. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.199 First sitting president ever attend to Super Bowl. Will he 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.680 be cheered in Louisiana, New Orleans when he's announced, because 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.480 obviously they'll announce it cheered or bude? 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.920 Oh, the chiefs fans will cheer him. Well, I both. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.080 I don't know a lot of corporate people there that 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:32.240 aren't fans of eating exactly. 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:33.919 They don't cheer for anything. They sit there on their 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.520 hands and then go to cocktail parties. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:38.800 So I want to mention one more thing I learned 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.480 about Alex Friedman's podcast about AI with some of the 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.800 top AI people nore one, they don't think agis come 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:46.560 until twenty thirty, so we got at least five years 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:47.560 before we got to worry about it. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.600 They also are vital juices or drained. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.679 Yes, even though the technology may get here, it's a 0:20:53.840 --> 0:21:00.000 reverse of the nuclear weapon thing in that like Toget 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.879 had a nuclear weapon. If you watched Oppenheimer, they just 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:07.040 kept putting the marbles in the jar of how much 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.199 refined uranium we have or plutonium or whatever it is 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:12.560 you used to make a bomb. 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:14.320 Do we have enough? Do we have enough? Had enough? 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.040 And when the jar got full, we've got enough to 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.160