1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and Getty enough, 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Getty. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 3: The protests in Chicago as President Trump escalates his threats 6 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 3: against the third largest city in the nation. Trump resharing 7 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 3: a manipulated image on social media that places him in 8 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 3: front of the city, the image referencing the iconic nineteen 9 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 3: seventy nine film Apocalypse Now. The caption reads, I love 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 3: the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago About to 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 3: find out why it's called the Department of War, a 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 3: reference to his Friday executive order rebranding the Department of 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 3: Defense the Department of War. 14 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: We're not going to war. We're going to clean up 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 2: our city. We're going to clean them up so they 16 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 2: don't kill five people every week. That's not war, that's 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 2: common sense. 18 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 4: Well, he said that a full day later, after the 19 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 4: idiotic mainstream media dance to his tune, jumped to debate 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 4: with so little discipline, how have you not figured out 21 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 4: in a dozen years that he says over the top 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 4: things gets you to react to them like they're literally true, 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 4: embarrass yourselves. 24 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 2: Oh I don't see it that way. That's that's there. 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: That's catnip to them. They get to rail against Trump 26 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 2: and they're mostly lefty viewers love it. How has that 27 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 2: worked for you? Though he got elected twice? I just 28 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 2: saw this suck in. Their numbers are declining by the moment. 29 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 2: Is to forget how you A lot of them are 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 2: true believers, They're they're just they're delusional. 31 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 4: Yes, he said, Chicago's about to find out why. 32 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: It's called the Department of War. 33 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 4: And then I saw serious conversations on CNN. What would 34 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 4: this mean? You think the Marines are going to be 35 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 4: sent in, will be will be shot? 36 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: What are you talking about? You morons? Yeah it is. 37 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 2: You gotta admit so to have the president of the 38 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 2: High States, I say something like that is looney to Yes. 39 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 4: Yes, if I didn't know who Donald Trump was, I 40 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 4: would pick that. But having been around him for oh 41 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 4: more than a decade, now I realize he's just he's 42 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 4: the troll in chief. 43 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 2: So the troll and chief has threatened for weeks to 44 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: send the National ar to Chicago. What is clearly happening 45 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 2: is an immigration crackdown where ice will be going in 46 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: and getting rid of criminals and scumbags, and also illegals 47 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 2: who are merely illegals. Probably, But whether the National Guard 48 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: ends up involved at all is almost entirely functional whether 49 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 2: there's violence and insanity. If there's violence and insanity and 50 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 2: that prevents ICE from doing their jobs, they will Trump 51 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: will send in the National Guard. 52 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 4: Let me interrupt briefly for a tease. Remember to ask 53 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 4: me about Prune's life later. Oh, okay, remember member discussion 54 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 4: for Friday, Michael Wright that out. Remember to ask me 55 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 4: about got it? Okay, something to look forward to. H 56 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 4: fat child mutilator JB. Pritzker, the Democrat governor of Illinois. 57 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 4: I said, and I quote, the President of the United 58 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 4: States is threatening to go to war with an American city. 59 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 2: This is not a joke. This is not normal. Yes, 60 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: Illinois won't be intimidated by a wantity dictator literally a joke. Yeah, 61 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: it's it's an effort at humor designed to provoke laughter 62 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 2: or well, as Jack said, it's it's a joke anyway. 63 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: So a couple of notes about oh, you know what 64 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: I think, I think idiot Brandon Johnson is quoted in 65 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 2: here somewhere. 66 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 4: Brandon dictator child mutilator for governor and for the mayor, 67 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 4: you just. 68 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: Go with idiot. Yeah, yeah, As Jeff Blair wrote a 69 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 2: great piece for the National Review, he's talking about the 70 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: shot spotter thing. Are you familiar with shot spotter? It's 71 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 2: a technology that is used in a number of places, 72 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: including Chicago, was to echo locate live gunfire in bad 73 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 2: neighborhoods so the cops can get there quickly and stop 74 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: the blood lighting if they can. Well, activists, woke lunatics 75 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 2: have long said it's a tool of racial oppression because 76 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: it sends the cops to black neighborhoods disproportionately. Do I 77 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 2: even have to explain what's lunatic about that opinion? Probably 78 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: not anyway. So Brandon Johnson, the athnore mentioned halfwit, promised 79 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: during his election campaign to get rid of it. But 80 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 2: then you remember we were there for that the DNC, 81 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 2: the Democratic National Convention, came to town when in the summer, 82 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: when crime is at it's worst. Anyway, so Johnson hypocritically 83 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,119 Speaker 2: announced he would be canceling it only after a seven 84 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 2: month extension to get the city through the Democratic Convention 85 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 2: until September. And then, and Jeff writes, here's the whole 86 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: story where it transitions from outrage to farce and one 87 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: of the most inexplicably stupid moves of recent Chicago history. 88 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: He announced this extension and deal while simult simultaneously insulting 89 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 2: shot Spotter as a company in a product at a 90 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: press conference without remembering to get shot Spotter's signature on 91 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 2: the extension first. Well, shot Spotter quite understandably told Johnson 92 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 2: they were declining his literally insulting terms and they were 93 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 2: simply going to switch off their services the next day, 94 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: and he had to beg them for an extra two 95 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 2: months of winding down to the tune of eight point 96 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 2: six million dollars, which the shot Spotter finally said, okay, 97 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 2: we'll do it for that. So nice job, Brandon, And 98 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 2: there's actually more to that. It's just ridiculous, But I 99 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: wanted to get to at least part of this. Rich Lowry, 100 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 2: the fabulous editor in chief of the National Review. Brandon 101 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 2: Johnson is a moron, is the title of his piece, 102 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: If Mayoral Idiots Here or a justification for a National 103 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 2: Guard deployment? Michael grab A grab a clip of Brandon 104 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 2: Johnson saying something idiotic? Would you through the years. Uh. 105 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 2: If mayoral idiocy were justification for a National Guard deployment, 106 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 2: the troops would be headed to Chicago right now. And 107 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 2: he's talking about Johnson the other day, going on and 108 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: on about we cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. 109 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 2: We've already tried that, and we've ended up with the 110 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 2: largest prison population in the world without solving the problems 111 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: of crime and violence. 112 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 4: We're addicted to jails and incarceration, another prison. Just keep 113 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 4: locking people up until you don't have crime. Who the 114 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 4: people who break the law? Yes, that's an interesting policy. 115 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 4: It's racist, it's immoral, it is unholy. It is not 116 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 4: the way to drive violence down. 117 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 2: We cannot return to the same failed strategies that got 118 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 2: us here in the first place. And then Rich Lowry 119 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 2: goes point by point, year by year and points out 120 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 2: how incarceration is indeed an answer to violence. It works consistently. 121 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 2: Course it does. There's a sense. 122 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 4: Offenders from harming anybody else well, And there's a small 123 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 4: percentage of people that are ever gonna steal or hurt people. 124 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 4: It's a small percentage. You lock them up, then you're done, right. 125 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 2: So Chicago had nearly six hundred murders last year and 126 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: the eighth highest homicide rate in the nation. And by 127 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: the way, homicide rates can be as misleading as they 128 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 2: are informative, because in a city like Chicago, you have 129 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 2: vast swathes of it where nobody ever gets killed. And 130 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: it's a big city both geographically and in terms of population. 131 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: So what you're talking about is the Mrgery neighborhoods which 132 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: have an astonishing homicide rate, and those people don't deserve 133 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 2: to die just because they're black and the offenders are black. Brandon, 134 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: We're gonna defend our democracy in the city of Chicago. 135 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: We're gonna protect the humanity of every single person in 136 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 2: the city of Chicago. And we got the baddest freaking 137 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 2: labor movement in the city of Chicago birth right here. Yeah. 138 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: I could do twenty minutes without taking a breath on 139 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 2: how Brandon and his friends have ruined Chicago public schools 140 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 2: because the teachers' union runs them for the union and 141 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 2: not for the poor little children, who again frequently are 142 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 2: black or brown or whatever. 143 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 4: So just politically, though overall, I think the wind so 144 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 4: easily goes to the side that's trying to crack down 145 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,239 Speaker 4: on crime. People hear those numbers, the fifty some shot, 146 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 4: the eight dead from Labor Day weekend, and when you 147 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 4: hear either the governor of the mayor saying we're going 148 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 4: to defend Chicago against what trying to stop that? 149 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 2: What is that? Yeah? We should probably thank Brandon Johnson 150 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 2: as a country because Chicago really has developed some great 151 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 2: trauma surgeons because they trace so many gunshot wounds. You 152 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 2: can have almost sixty people shot and only eight of 153 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 2: them die because the prowess of Chicago's surgeons. And we 154 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 2: tip our cap to you. Quick note. Charles Layman and 155 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: the Manhattan Institute pointed two studies that show the effect 156 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 2: of incarceration, finding one in one. After Maryland reduced jail 157 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 2: time for young adults, offenders committed on average two point 158 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 2: eight criminal acts and one and a half serious crimes 159 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: during the time they otherwise would have been behind bars. Wow. 160 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 2: That's per person. Wow. And it's not true that we 161 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: drastically increased incarceration without effect. Imprisonment began to rise in 162 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 2: response to a historic crime wave beginning about a half 163 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: century ago in the infamous late sixties early seventies, after 164 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 2: which that wave finally receded. You can argue how much 165 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 2: putting people in prison was responsible for the reduction crime pure, 166 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 2: but they clearly played a part. Homicide victimization rates doubled 167 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 2: between nineteen sixty and nineteen eighty and didn't begin a 168 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 2: consistent decline until the nineteen nineties. From nineteen seventy to 169 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 2: ZHO five, a staggering six hundred and seventy four thousand 170 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 2: Americans were murdered more than died in all of our 171 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 2: wars from World War II on. We've locked up the 172 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: people who killed other people, and the murder rate plunged. Brandon, 173 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 2: you moron. 174 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 4: And it's such a depressing story. Now how often you 175 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 4: hear about I don't even want to mention some of them. 176 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 4: I heard over the weekend, Just a tragic story, and 177 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 4: the perpetrator had done this before and they were still out. 178 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 2: It's just awful. And my final final note on this 179 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: is you look at the emotional data free greeting card 180 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 2: illogic of a Brandon Johnson, and you know who is 181 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 2: convinced by those awful arguments. Either the very naive, or 182 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 2: the completely ideological, or the very young, which is why 183 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 2: progressives from Britain to the United States are so enthusiastic 184 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 2: about getting sixteen and seventeen year olds to vote, because 185 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 2: you can convince a sixteen year old that, look at 186 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 2: these incarceration rates, that's proof that it's racist, and therefore 187 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 2: we must turn all these people loose from jails because 188 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 2: sixteen year olds lack the life experience and critical thinking 189 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 2: to understand what is so false, and man, you gotta 190 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 2: fight that voting. The age ought to be thirty, never 191 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: mind sixteen. 192 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 4: Well, I overnighted prunes from Amazon and update on that 193 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 4: story from Friday, and a bunch of other things that 194 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 4: we need to get to. World leaders coming to the 195 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 4: White House again to talk about Russian and Ukraine, and 196 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 4: that'll be at the White House today and tomorrow. Much 197 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 4: stuff to get to stay here. 198 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 2: Scientists say being more optimistic as we age could be 199 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 2: an early sign of dementia. In a related story, Biden 200 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 2: likes his chances in twenty twenty eight, just came across this. 201 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 4: Those blue light glasses you wear, pretty good chance that 202 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 4: they don't do anything. Latest indication from the American Academy 203 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 4: of Ophthalmology blue light filtering glasses don't meaningfully reduce eyestrain 204 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 4: or improve sleep or anything else according to the idea 205 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 4: being it's the blue light from the devices that somehow 206 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 4: do something to your brain. 207 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. It all seemed very reasonable. It seems 208 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 2: reasonable for me. 209 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 4: I'm not like mocking anybody who believed it made sense. 210 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 4: But they're saying their latest studies don't show that there's 211 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 4: any reason to think they do anything. Really, Okay, all right, 212 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 4: you know. 213 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 2: What's funny, there's a greater point there. The whole we 214 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 2: listen to the science, or you know, I represent science 215 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 2: or whatever, this view that science having pronounced something is 216 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 2: always right and is never overcome and questioning science is 217 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: somehow a sin and a terrible thing to do. Now, 218 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: that's precisely what science is. It's questioning everything all the time. 219 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 2: That's what you're supposed to do. 220 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, and studies are hard to replicate and often you 221 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 4: get different results. And if this story had any politics 222 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 4: behind it, like if Joe Biden had emphasized blue light 223 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 4: reading glasses and Trump had been against it or something, 224 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 4: I mean, there would be you know, everything would be 225 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 4: different around the story. 226 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: Right, So everybody. 227 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 4: Digs in, Like when you get that new news that 228 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 4: came out last week that the ocean hasn't actually a risen. 229 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 2: I've got more details on that. Okay, cool, yeah, oh yeah, 230 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 2: depending on what town you're and there would either be 231 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 2: government subsidized blue light classes for junkies or another places 232 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 2: bonfires built in blue light classes. 233 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 4: They were being smashed and burned right right, or people 234 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 4: be screaming at you if you were wearing blue light glasses. 235 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 4: Light not p America. Oh my gosh, I'll tell this 236 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 4: story later. I went to an amazing ceremony yesterday, first 237 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 4: one i'd been to of when a kid in boy 238 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 4: Scouts gets his Eagle Scout. 239 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 2: Oh was that powerful something? 240 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 4: Because my son is in Scouts now, and if somebody 241 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 4: in your troop gets Eagle Scout, everybody goes and all 242 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 4: the parents and it's a huge deal. I didn't know this, 243 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 4: very very cool, but I want to talk about that 244 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 4: later because I'd had one picture in there from when 245 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 4: he was in Scouting during COVID and I'm sure they 246 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 4: were just following their county state laws at the time 247 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 4: in California. Two kids in a canoe in a lake 248 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 4: with masks on, and I'm sure they were just doing 249 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 4: what they had to do to stay out of trouble. 250 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 2: But I thought that is the craziest thing. That is 251 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: one of the stupidest things I have ever witnessed by proxy. Oh, 252 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 2: you could not pass a respiratory disease from one person 253 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: to another outdoor in a canoe outdoors if you were 254 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 2: promised a million dollars if you could do it, not 255 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: unless you leapt on top of them and coughed into 256 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 2: their face intensely for about half an hour. 257 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 4: But I'm sure there was the rules, and there was 258 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 4: the only way they're going to be able to get 259 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 4: to do what they wanted to do. So A Friday 260 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 4: ended up talking about to a certain situation I got 261 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 4: and why I needed prunes according to my doctor. And 262 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 4: again I emphasize I clearly am not using this show 263 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 4: to try to get dates, because if I were a date, 264 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 4: if this show we're a dating app, that would be 265 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 4: a hard swipe. 266 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 2: Left me talking about eating prunes. 267 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 4: But so so the doctor told me get a bag 268 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 4: of prunes and then you start with one a day, 269 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 4: and if that doesn't work, you go to a day 270 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 4: and you just keep upping it until you became a 271 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 4: you know, as regular as d West mail is what 272 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 4: you're looking for But the funny part of it was 273 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 4: to me was so I order on Amazon and and 274 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 4: we're out doing stuff when we come back and I say, 275 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 4: my prunes are here. 276 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: Package was at the door. 277 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 4: And my son said, that is officially the oldest thing 278 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 4: you've ever said, Hey. 279 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 2: That is That was disappointing. 280 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 4: I almost had to sit down for a while and think, Wow, 281 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 4: that's where I am in my life, where I get 282 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 4: in an excited voice. Yes, I don't say hey, look 283 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 4: at that girl or maybe a new car or anything. 284 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 4: I say hooray, my prunes are here. That's wy I 285 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 4: crossed the line there. I'd say, that's disappointing. I'll let 286 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 4: you know how it works. Maybe I'll put a graph up. 287 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 2: Or don't no, no, keep it to yourself. 288 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 4: I think I'm doing a favor. We got a lot 289 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 4: of texts about it. It's I'm not the only person 290 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 4: in the world that's ever encountered this. According to all 291 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 4: the ads. 292 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 2: That I see on television. M that's a good point. 293 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 4: It's an ongoing problem in America. Too much cheese, that's 294 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 4: what I say. And apparently it ruins women's moods too. 295 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 2: According to commercial I keep seeing on Fox news that 296 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 2: if your gut isn't regular, your moods aren't either. I 297 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 2: don't I've been in the state that you're describing, which 298 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 2: I wouldn't am. It's far too refined to mention. But 299 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 2: I don't think it ever fouled my mood. So I 300 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 2: don't know if he depends how stopped up you are. 301 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 2: I guess. 302 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 4: I don't know if you've been following this conversation, kind 303 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 4: of an online conversation that maybe you're into or not Twitter, 304 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,360 Speaker 4: conversation about where do our rights come from? As one 305 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 4: prominent US senator democrats that our rights do not come 306 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 4: from God. They come from the government that started a 307 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 4: whole thing. You talk about that, among other topics on 308 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 4: the way. If you miss a segment, get podcast Armstrong 309 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,719 Speaker 4: and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. 310 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 5: I think it sends a mess, really a message of strength. 311 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: We're very strong. 312 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 4: That's Donald Trump explaining why it's Secretary of War in 313 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 4: is at a Secretary of Defense. Now it's a Department 314 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 4: of War. And we'll talk a little bit about that later. 315 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 4: I learned some interesting stuff about why we changed it 316 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,719 Speaker 4: from war to defense that I didn't know. 317 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 2: I thought I knew everything about it, and I did not, 318 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 2: So stay tuned, Okay, intriguing. So speaking of defending ourselves 319 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 2: against well somebody, China, we're looking at you. The whole 320 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 2: Salt Typhoon hacking attack that you may have heard of, 321 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 2: it was way bigger and more significant than was he 322 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 2: even discussed. I think it was last year a little 323 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 2: before that. Apparently the Chinese may have stolen data from 324 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 2: almost every single one of US Americans, not to mention 325 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 2: the other eighty countries. Well we're targeted. 326 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 4: If you just started with TikTok, that would be what 327 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 4: seventy percent of the country. 328 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of people have TikTok, and that's. 329 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, information they steal just by if you download that app. 330 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 2: Well, right, right, And I know I have saved that article. 331 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 2: I can't remember who wrote it, but actual oh, I 332 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 2: think it was Michael Pillsbury who wrote The Hundred Year Marathon, 333 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 2: which is a great book about China's rise and their intent. 334 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 2: But the Chinese intelligence services talk glowingly of TikTok and 335 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 2: what a valuable asset it is. And if that isn't 336 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 2: enough information for you, I don't know what you need 337 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 2: to hear, but anyway, So the sweeping cyber attack by 338 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: the group known as Salt Typhoon is China's most ambitious. Yeah, 339 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 2: targeted more than eighty countries, may have stolen info from 340 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 2: nearly every American. They see it as evidence that China's 341 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 2: capabilities rivaled those of the US and its allies. It's 342 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 2: not clear whether a lot of the stuff was swept 343 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 2: up kind of accidentally, and whether it's being stored or 344 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 2: anything like that. You know, I, personally, knowing a little 345 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 2: bit about China's track record, I suspect that, Yeah, they 346 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 2: believe that information is power, even if you don't know 347 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 2: how you might use it someday, you just keep it. 348 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 2: And then what the fear is that the range of 349 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 2: the attack blah blah blah. Security officials warned that the 350 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 2: stolen data could allow Chinese intelligence services to exploit global 351 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 2: communications networks to track targets, including politicians, spies, and activists. 352 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 2: They have everybody's digital footprint. 353 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 4: I wonder if they act, do they actually have the 354 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 4: ability to like coalesce, keep track of somehow, Like they 355 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 4: steal all the information from a twenty two year old 356 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 4: and that person twenty years from now, becomes a US senator. 357 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 2: Do they have the ability to keep track of that? 358 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: I don't have any on you. I'll bet with Ai 359 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 2: they do now, maybe because you don't have to have 360 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 2: some poor analysts like you know, pawing through millions of 361 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 2: pages of digital blankety blank or doing Google searches. You 362 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 2: just ask Ai, Hey, Senator Jones, what do we have 363 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 2: on him? Here's his last known addresses? Blah blah blah. 364 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 2: And in a similar ish story, you remember when the 365 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 2: Trump administration's contentious trade talks with China were going to 366 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 2: begin last summer, staffers on the House committee focused on 367 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 2: US competition with China began to get weird emails from 368 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 2: the committee's chairman, John Molinar, who is a Republican congressman 369 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 2: from Michigan. Several trade groups, law firms, US government agencies 370 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 2: had all received the emails, appearing to be from Molinar, 371 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 2: asking for input on the proposed sanctions with which the 372 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 2: legislatures were planning to target Beijing. Your insights are essential 373 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Turned out to be the latest in 374 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 2: a series of cyber espionage campaigns linked to Beijing. They 375 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 2: were impersonating the guy trying to pump anybody for information 376 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 2: who's willing to give it to them, And they tied 377 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 2: that to when last year I think it was somebody 378 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 2: used AI to imitate Marco Rubio's voice, right and had 379 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 2: him leaving voicemails to people, to all sorts of foreign officials. 380 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 2: That's going to happen a lot. 381 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I wonder And just like in everybody's lives, 382 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 4: you're going to get a text that sounds like your 383 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 4: wife saying something ridiculous. 384 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 2: I mean, just as just messing with you, isn't it 385 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 2: because it's so easy. Well yeah, apparently, Well, not only 386 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 2: do you have Marco Rubio being not you know, I said, 387 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 2: I almost said convincingly imitated, But it's not. It's his 388 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 2: actual voice emphasized digitally. It's like, you know, if you're 389 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 2: a guitar player, you know they have these digital amp 390 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 2: what do you call them imitations? There's there's a word 391 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 2: for it. Models that actually take the audio data from 392 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 2: you know, a Marshall amplifier or whatever, and they can 393 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: replicate it. You know, the sound waves are the same. 394 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 2: So yeah, it's his voice essentially. But yeah, you already 395 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 2: have Grandma's getting calls from their grandson saying, hey, I 396 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 2: got arrest that I need two hundred dollars bail blah 397 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 2: blah blah, send it right away. So yeah, I wonder 398 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 2: whether did the Marcos Rubio of the world and the 399 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 2: foreign ministers of Britain or whatever, did they already have 400 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 2: protocols in place where if I see a phone call 401 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 2: coming in it appears to be from you, for instance, 402 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 2: and you say, hey, I need to talk to you 403 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 2: about blah blah blah, I've been arrested, and yeah, good luck, 404 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 2: get it yourself. Click. Uh. Do they have like code 405 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 2: words and stuff already. I don't know, because I've heard 406 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 2: that suggested that families have that have a code really yes, wow, 407 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 2: oh yeah wow, and none of that. Huh. 408 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 409 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: You'd have to be a little naive or inexperienced in 410 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 2: the ways of the world to fall for this stuff. Still, 411 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 2: But that's that's the thing about scumbags is some of 412 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 2: them are pretty smart and they're good at their jobs. 413 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 414 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 4: I mean, if I got a phone call from my son, 415 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 4: even if it sounded very convincing, Dad at Sam, I'm 416 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 4: in Mexico, I'm in jail, I think, no, you no, 417 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 4: you're not you're at school. There's no way you ended 418 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 4: up in Mexico. 419 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 2: Well what about I'm two towns over. I was ditching 420 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 2: school and one of my buddies was shoplifting and I 421 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 2: was with them, so I got arrested. I need four 422 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 2: hundred bucks. Yeah how about click? Uh? Yeah, I hang 423 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 2: out with better people. Click. I think you would probably 424 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,439 Speaker 2: see where you're supposed to send the money. Right, Well, 425 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 2: wait a minute, I'm calling the cop shop right, yes, yeah, 426 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 2: but a lot of people don't because they're they're not idiots. No, nine, okay. Anyway, 427 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 2: So China's got a file on and congratulations. I've said 428 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 2: for years, I really hope they have a file on me, 429 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 2: because if you know she's in paying me, were to 430 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 2: say no, you and your lunkhead partner, No, we don't 431 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 2: care what you say or do, that's fine, I would 432 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 2: find that hurtful. 433 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 4: I used AI in my cyber truck yesterday. I used 434 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 4: groc in a way that had my children very uncomfortable. 435 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 4: But I'll talk about that after I tell you about 436 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 4: this trust and will situation. You got that going for 437 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 4: you already, you really should peace of mind by making 438 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 4: an estate plan now, starting at just one hundred and 439 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 4: ninety nine dollars. 440 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 2: This could really help you sleep well at night, right. 441 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 2: It's something you know you need to do so your 442 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 2: assets aren't you know, involved and bitter legal battles with 443 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 2: the government deciding who gets what and the rest of it. 444 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 2: But you haven't done it, maybe partly because the expense. 445 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 2: But again, you can create and manage that customer state 446 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 2: plan starting at one hundred and ninety nine bucks. Do 447 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 2: I need a trust or a will? They will guide 448 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 2: you through all of that state specific for where you live. 449 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, and Chinese ain't gonna hack it because you got 450 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 4: bank level encryption on all this sort of stuff. And 451 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 4: the live customer support their chatphone or email is going 452 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 4: to help you put this thing together. 453 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 2: You can actually do it. Yep. You can do this, 454 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 2: secure your assets and protect your loved ones with trust 455 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 2: and Will. Do this today. Get twenty percent off on 456 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 2: your state planned documents by visiting Trust and Will dot 457 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 2: com slash armstrong. That's Trustendwill dot com slash armstrong. 458 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 4: I was listening to a podcast over the weekend where 459 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 4: some journalists were talking about how they use AI in 460 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 4: their lives and where they think it's going the where 461 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 4: they think it's going part. Everybody had a different guess, 462 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 4: and boy, who knows, We don't know, but how they 463 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 4: were using it now. One Washington Post reporter talk about 464 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 4: how every article she runs through AI to look for 465 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 4: any logical inconsistencies or that sort of thing. I thought 466 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 4: that was really interesting because at some point, I mean, 467 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 4: that's what being a good writer is, right, is the 468 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 4: ability to not do that. And now you can use AI. 469 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 4: So does that eliminate a whole bunch of the talent 470 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 4: involved in. 471 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: Being a Washington Post level reporter? Well, about three quarters 472 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 2: of the articles I read from the Washington Post have 473 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 2: giant logical inconsistencies in them. Well, this is one of 474 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 2: the good reporters, but good in my opinion. 475 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 4: I thought that was interesting in a more frivolous way 476 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 4: for using AI. And I would assume soon every car 477 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 4: is going to have AI in it. So Tesla's have 478 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 4: groc in it now, because that's Elon's AI that he's 479 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 4: put billions of dollars into, and it's right there in 480 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 4: your car, and I can just tap the screen and 481 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 4: like yesterday, we're listening to a jazz song on the 482 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 4: way to eat breakfast, and I just tapped Groc. I said, hey, 483 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 4: who's playing trumpet on this song? And the AI chick said, oh, 484 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 4: that's Wayne Shorter. Isn't it amazing? He really kills it 485 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 4: on here, she says to me, and again, cool and disturbing. 486 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 4: Cool and disturbing. And my kids are like, I hate that. 487 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 4: They hated the voice and the way it sounded so 488 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 4: like conversational. It is kind of weird. 489 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 2: You're a silicon chip. Why do you have an opinion 490 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 2: on jazz? 491 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 4: And I said, hey, Groc, I'm taking my two boys 492 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 4: to I Hop for pancakes. Is that a good idea nutritionally? 493 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 4: Oh boy, that's a tough one. She says. Pancakes are 494 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 4: loaded with carbs. If you go with the whole grain, 495 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 4: it'd be a lot better. And don't use the syrup. 496 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 4: But you know they are, she says, but they are delicious. 497 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 4: And leave out the butter too. Boys, here's some nice, dry, 498 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 4: whole week pant And my high schooler in the back 499 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 4: seat says, stop doing that. I hate this thing. And 500 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 4: I said, hey, Groc. My high schooler only answers in 501 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 4: one word questions. 502 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 2: Is there anything I can do about that? 503 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,120 Speaker 4: And she said, oh, high schooler can be so surly. 504 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 4: Sometimes it's just hormones and sometimes Dad stop. 505 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's very funny. That is hilarious. It is 506 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 2: weird how she talks to you, though, Yeah, and I 507 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 2: wonder how other people react. 508 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 4: My natural reaction and then watching my kids their natural 509 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 4: reaction to that conversational. 510 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 2: Weird buddy's style is like revulsion. 511 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 4: I mean, right, it's a terry uncanny Valley syndrome, which 512 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 4: is what that's things that are nearly human disturb us. 513 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 4: It must not disturb everybody. As I've heard stories of 514 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 4: people getting into relationships or whatever with their aim. I'm 515 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 4: immediately turned off by the fact that it's trying to 516 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 4: sound like a person. It gives me the willies, like 517 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 4: practically chills. Well, right, but you proved my point, your 518 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 4: point right there. You hear these stories about people who 519 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 4: get into relationships with a or the AI helps them 520 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 4: kill themselves or whatever. Yes, they don't sense the weirdness 521 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 4: in the threat there. 522 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 2: So they end up being swept away by it. 523 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's funny, how odd how repulsed my kids 524 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 4: were to her, her tone of voice, in the way 525 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 4: she talked. 526 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 2: Just Dad, you gotta stop it's killing me. That's it's interesting. Good. 527 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 4: I hope that we all react that way. Of course, 528 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 4: it's probably going to get better at it. 529 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 2: I don't know. 530 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 5: The questions are going to get more personal too, from 531 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 5: AI them asking us yes, yeah, well I don't I 532 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 5: haven't gone down that road with anything with AI so well, 533 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 5: other than hacking again, you're a bag of silicon chips. 534 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 2: I'll tell you anything you want to know. I don't care. 535 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 2: You're not a person. It's weird. Although the privacy thing is, 536 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 2: you know, significant. 537 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 4: Wouldn't you assume that soon every car will have this 538 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 4: in it within five years? 539 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 2: I don't see why not. 540 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's pretty handy for the like the 541 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 4: song thing was cool, or uh, we want to go 542 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 4: to IHA? Is there one around here? Oh yeah, just 543 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 4: go up two blocks and turn left. You know that 544 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 4: sort of stuff is pretty handy. Yeah, No, asking how 545 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 4: to raise teenagers, I don't know. Maybe that crosses a line. 546 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 2: You like, I hop more than anybody I've ever known. 547 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 4: They make great pancakes. They're good at pancakes. Their other 548 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 4: stuff is marginal, But if you want a pancake, they're 549 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 4: pretty good at it. Oh yeah, you know, what the 550 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 4: main thing is though, and this probably makes your point 551 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 4: not mine the diversity. 552 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: Because it's international, right, There's not a line every other 553 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: breakfast place we want to go to, especially on a Sunday, 554 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: it's going to be an hour wait, and we ain't 555 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: waiting an hour. 556 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 2: To eat our breakfast. I go to, I hop, we 557 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 2: walk in, we leave, so nobody wants to eat, so 558 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: you can just sit right down. That's that's a good recommendation, 559 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 2: No kidding. 560 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 4: Uh, where do we get our rights from God or 561 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 4: from the government. We do have to get into that 562 00:30:58,960 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 4: conversation at some point. 563 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Tim Kaine ought to be heaved out of the Senate, 564 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 2: like the popular Consent, among other things. On the way 565 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 2: stay here. 566 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 4: So Donald Trump, as we broadcast, is speaking at the 567 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 4: Museum of the Bible there in Washington, d C. Which 568 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 4: I stayed in the hotel right next to it when 569 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 4: I was there last year. But for whatever reason we 570 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 4: were there. What holiday was I there over there? 571 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 2: Anyway? It was closed. 572 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 4: I wanted to go because I'm a Bible fan, and 573 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 4: I thought it was That's exactly right. I thought it'd 574 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 4: be pretty cool. 575 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 2: Anyway. 576 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 4: Donald Trump was just talking about how he's end wokesm 577 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 4: in their war on religion and the Bible and. 578 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 2: That sort of stuff. 579 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 4: Apparently I hasn't reached an idiot idiot Tim Kain, who's 580 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 4: a Democratic senator from Virginia. 581 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 2: He was Hillary's running mate, that is correct. 582 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 4: He was eighty thousand votes away from being vice president 583 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 4: of the United States, and he said this the other day. 584 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 6: That rights don't come from laws and don't come from 585 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 6: the government, but come from the creator. That's what the 586 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 6: Iranian government believes. It's a theocratic regime that bases its 587 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 6: rule on Shia law and target soonies behinds, Jews, Christians, 588 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 6: and other religious minorities. And they do it because they 589 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 6: believe that they understand what natural rights are from their creator. 590 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 6: So the statement that our rights do not come from 591 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 6: our laws or our governments is extremely troubling. 592 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 4: Wow wow, I had read it, but for some reason, 593 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 4: hearing it is even worse. So it was in a 594 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 4: reaction to a conversation about where our rights come from. 595 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: And our. 596 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 4: Former politician from the very state he represents, named Thomas Jefferson, 597 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 4: among others, specifically say in our founding documents that our 598 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 4: rights come from our creator. But he said that that 599 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 4: was and over again. Yes, and he repeated it. By 600 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 4: the way, it was for a hearing for. 601 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 2: An appointee who had said, well, I believe, you know, 602 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 2: our natural rights come from God blah blah blah, and 603 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 2: so Tim was trying to tear her down. Apparently more 604 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 2: on that process and how screwed up it is. But yeah, yeah, 605 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 2: you know, I was gonna say, hey, Tim, Tim, I'm 606 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 2: going to play a guessing game with you. I'm thinking 607 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 2: about a Virginian. He's been dead a long time. Tall, 608 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 2: kind of sandy haired, liked architecture, drank a little wine, 609 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 2: wrote pretty well, does it ring any bells? Because he 610 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 2: said over and over again in the very documents that 611 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 2: explained why this country was going to exist, that our 612 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 2: rights come from God and cannot be taken away by 613 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 2: any human. Well, it's it's funny, he said. 614 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 4: It was disturbing the idea that our rights come from 615 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 4: God or nature or whatever you want to call it. 616 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 4: I find it beyond disturbing that we have a US 617 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 4: senator that was willing to say. 618 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 2: Out loud, all of our rights come from government. 619 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 4: They all belong to government, and if they give us 620 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 4: anything that we have a right to, they gave it 621 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 4: to us and they can take it back, which is 622 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,320 Speaker 4: absolutely horrifying. 623 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,879 Speaker 2: Well, that's the definition of a gaff that they use 624 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,240 Speaker 2: these days, right, he accidentally said what he actually believes. 625 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 2: That's what a lot of lefty people believe. That our 626 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 2: rights come from government, and the government can give them 627 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 2: or take them away as they place. There are no 628 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 2: sacred rights, there are no permanent rights. There's just what 629 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 2: the government gives us. You said it out loud. He 630 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 2: mocked the idea that we're in doubt by our creator 631 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,959 Speaker 2: with certain uninalienable rights, and that is not only true 632 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 2: but self evident. He mocked that that. 633 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 4: Is wild, I'd say, did he think there'd be no 634 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:01,280 Speaker 4: pushback on that saying the opposite of what our founding 635 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,280 Speaker 4: documents say. 636 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 2: I'm sure he's heard it now. Probably worth pointing out 637 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 2: that Jefferson's nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, believe that these sacred rights 638 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 2: of mankind are written as with a sunbeam in the 639 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 2: whole volume, and human nature by the hand of the 640 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 2: Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by 641 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,040 Speaker 2: mortal power. He was joined by John Adams, James Wilson, 642 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 2: John Dickinson, and all the rest of the Founding Fathers 643 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 2: and saying exactly the same thing. 644 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, the government didn't give us the right to free speech. 645 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 4: We are born all men of everyone on earth with 646 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 4: the right free speech. The only way you don't have 647 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 4: it is if a government takes it away from you. 648 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 2: There's a lot of governments around the world have Yeah. 649 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 2: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln also believed that the right 650 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 2: to enjoy liberty is inalienable. To invade it is to 651 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,440 Speaker 2: usurp the prerogative of Jehovah. And for instance, again, a 652 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 2: guy who was just a couple of tens of thousands 653 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,800 Speaker 2: of votes away from being Vice President of the United States, 654 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 2: finds it disturbing that someone would think that what you 655 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:09,800 Speaker 2: just said all those people agree with. Yeah, that's wild. Yeah. 656 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 2: Is he an ignoramus and just doesn't know this, or 657 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:18,960 Speaker 2: is he again just saying what he believes out loud. Finally, 658 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 2: I don't know. It's probably. I don't know. 659 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 4: If he were a Republican who had said something like 660 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 4: that the other direction, he would be questioned on it 661 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 4: by the press. But since he's a Democrat, he will 662 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 4: not be. 663 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 2: Sandy Armstrong and Getty