WEBVTT - Why Such Small Arms? 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:06.600 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:17.720 Arm Strong and Gatty Enough He Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.120 The White House is billing this as a routine annual 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:30.280 dental and medical evaluation, though it's actually his third medical 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:31.920 exam in the past year. 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:33.800 All told, the President. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.880 Spent about three and a half hours at Walter Reed 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.040 Medical Center today. White House officials telling us we should 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.400 get a readout from the president's doctor within the next 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.440 day or so, although, as you mentioned, Trump delivered his 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.920 own report right after the visit, which he called a 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.440 six month physical. He said, everything checked out perfectly. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.480 I don't worry that Trump's got dementia or some secret 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.760 major health illness or whatever like that. But the idea 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.240 that we would get the truth out of these is 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.720 to me hilarious or even should or yes, or even 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.680 should Yeah, let's announce to China and all our enemies 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.600 and you ran or anything like that. He's really struggling 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.640 right now mentally and physically, so now would be a 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.360 good time to try to take advantage of him. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.200 Yeah, they're not going to tell us. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.800 Yeah, as so often happens, the very premise of the 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.560 left is completely wrong. To continue briefly our discussion the 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.679 last hour, and we don't have to dig into this 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.160 in full right now, but I want to eventually. The 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.920 new leader of Massachusetts Top Teachers Union is a member 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.520 of the Democratic Socialists of America who says the US 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:42.679 is fascist, borders are for colonizers, and Israel's genocidal. All right, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.880 it's the head of the teachers union thinks this country 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:47.520 is fascist. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.480 Speaking of heads of teachers' unions, Randy Wingarden just came 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.400 out with a statement that I agree with in part. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:00.480 It's hilariously falling short because of the parent backlag against 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.600 rapid tech use in schools. Randy Weingarten is signed on 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.519 to no screens for second graders or younger, and no 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.920 AI chatbots for students in elementary schools. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.280 Why we all don't. 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.880 Agree on a blanket ban of no screens in schools period, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.359 I do not know. It's insane to me, so the 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.440 second graders and youngers younger. Of course, if you're in third, fourth, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.320 fifth grade, or a senior high school sitting there staring 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:30.920 at your phone, it's perfectly okay. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.000 While they try to teach you. What the hell are 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:34.440 we doing? 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.560 Keep in mind that if you have a PhD in 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.280 education or a master's, but especially you're really advanced degrees, 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.920 the only thing that can possibly justify your high, high 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:53.520 salary is if you innovate, and they're so obsessed with 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.480 it that they'll abandon something like phonics that works perfectly. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.799 It's a miracle of effective teaching, but they've got to 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.120 flush it to make their salary worth it. We've come 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.320 up with a new innovative way. Well, the screens and 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.160 the tech were that for a lot of your education PhDs. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.359 We're gonna usher in a new era of individualized blah 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.000 blah blah. And they've invested zillions of dollars in this stuff. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.080 So yeah, getting them to say no, we're totally wrong. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.359 In fact, it's accomplishing the opposite of what we said. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.639 It's a disaster and a squandering of taxpayer money. Yeah, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:27.320 good luck with that. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.600 If you want to some interesting stuff about the Supreme 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.920 Court and it's positive news, stay tuned because Sarah isger 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.360 in her new book, Last Branch Standing later this hour. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.280 And it will cut through a lot of the just 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.640 utter crap that you hear about the Supreme Court these 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:50.040 days too. A couple of stupid headlines we will get to. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.000 We can get to at least one. I'll let Jack 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.960 choose which one after some serious news. Your choice is 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.520 between a the race for California governor has become a. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.720 Battle over facial hair huh. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:09.120 Or new study suggests to have found why t Rex 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.720 evolved to have smaller arms. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.960 Oh my, I think why the t Rex arms? Think? 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.560 My son told me about that. The other day. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.000 I saw Katie Porter grew a handle bar mustache. So 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.159 is that what that's all about? 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.040 H Yes, it is, it is, and it's it's waxed, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.120 it's curled at the ends. It's surprisingly alluring. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.839 Yes, wider vibes. Yeah. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.320 So I made reference to this last hour. Phoenix built 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:39.039 an empire of cubical jobs, and AI is tearing it down. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.400 The number of jobs lost and cubical jobs. They're talking 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:48.080 like customer service, data entry, payroll processing, that sort of thing. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.039 I've done that, yeah, which, as the journal points out, 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.039 created a vital ladder to the middle class, which helped 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.840 replace factory work which we exported during the China's going 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:03.279 to be our buddy if we just enriched them idiotic 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:08.240 period of our lives. But offshoring has been chipping away 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.080 at back office jobs for decades. But around sixteen and 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.680 a half million Americans still work in that sort of job. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.080 But that's down a million and a half in the 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.640 last five years or so, and the number of customer 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.520 service representatives in Metro Phoenix alone has tumbled twenty six 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.880 percent in the most recent four year span that the 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.080 Department of Labor measured. Those jobs are going away in 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.640 a big hurry to AI systems and some additional offshoring. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.640 So you lose those jobs, and then you got all 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.600 that office space that will be empty, which is its 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.599 own disruptor. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:43.120 Right right. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.200 And you know, I've been to Phoenix plenty, my dad 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.919 lives in that area, but it hadn't dawned on me 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.000 that many of those sprawling, you know, three four story 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.360 office campuses, that's what was happening there. Phoenix, because it 0:05:55.400 --> 0:06:01.080 had relatively inexpensive labor and relatively inexpensive real estate, became 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.160 like the nation center of that sort of thing. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.200 But now it's getting hit hard. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.280 How about all those empty giant buildings where people were 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.640 in there doing that entry of some sort that's something. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:16.200 Yeah, yeah, indoor pickleball courts clearly and as usual as 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.840 you are the only commentator in America asking this question. Okay, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.920 all those jobs have been lost to AI, when does 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.320 the universal high income kick it right? 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:31.680 How those people get like back pay? Or when does 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.000 this switch get flipped? 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.359 What's the total amount of people that have lost jobs 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:40.000 to AI? Is it over a million yet? Ten thousand here, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.440 twenty thousand there, thousand there. We've We've heard a lot 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.080 of these. But at what point do you start compensating 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:46.440 for this? 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.680 I don't know. Nobody's said right meta. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.680 For instance, Mark Zuckerberg's outfit has laid off tens of 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:58.000 thousands of people in recent months for AI driven reasons, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.200 and they make a a heiny load of money. So 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.680 when is the redistribution going to start? Elon, I would 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:11.440 like to know that. Totally different topic. Europe is starting 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.560 to think Putin will expand the war beyond Ukraine. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.800 Wow, Russia, and he's losing the in Ukraine. Why would 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:19.960 he expand it like as a distraction? 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.080 Well, yeah, he had a rally the country and I 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.680 can't imagine how it would work. But Russia's been making 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:33.040 increasingly belakost statements against the Baltic states, you're Latvia and 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:38.679 Lithuania and Estonia. It has threatened to bomb decision making 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.840 centers in Latvia after accusing the country of hosting Ukrainian 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.880 drone operators, which the Latvian authorities deny. Air raid alarms 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.560 were sounded in Lithuania last week, forcing the government into 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.000 a bunker after suspected Russian drones approached its airspace from Belarus, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.320 and the Russian Ministry of Defense has published the addresses 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.200 of companies allegedly working on drone production with Ukraine in 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.920 eight different European countries, warning of quote unpredictable consequences and 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.840 sharp escalation if military assistance to Kiev does not cease. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.680 If Russia went into Lithuania, Latvia, one of those countries. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.840 We're bogged down in Iran. We're not gonna like spend 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.960 a lot of time. Hey, Europe, you're worried about to 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.920 do something yourself. The whole Article five NATO thing, I 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:26.800 think just gets ignored more. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.960 Or less, well, especially now under Trump. The other headline 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.600 is that the Pentagon is cutting forces earmarked for Europe 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.840 in the event of a crisis. We had a plan, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.720 we will immediately send x number of troops to Europe. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.880 The Pentagon is substantially scaling back to forces and plans 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.720 to send to Europe in a crisis. A fresh step 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.160 by the Trump administration to shrink its military support for NATO. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.200 A Defense Department official notified NATO allies of the plan 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.840 cutbacks in a closed more door meeting last week in Brussels. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:00.719 Current and former officials who have been briefed on the 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.200 meeting said the Trump administration aims to reduce by one 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.400 third to one half the pool of various military capabilities 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.760 it would devote to NATO in a conflict, including US 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.840 commitments of strategic bombers and other long range strike forces, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:18.280 some naval assets, and air to air refueling tankers. And 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.960 it comes ahead of that move comes ahead of the 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.199 meeting of NATO leaders in Turkey in July, where Trump 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.360 is expected to attend the meeting and press other allied 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.160 leaders to shoulder more of the burden on Europe's defense, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.080 which has needed to happen for a very very long time. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.680 If a guy's going to take a look at both 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.800 sides of this issue, Trump is not wrong on this. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.320 Things feel a little touchy to me right now to 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.040 go to hardcore down that road. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.559 But people can differ. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.440 If you're willing to explain why t rexes have tiny arms. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.240 I've got a really entertaining hate text for us. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:56.760 Oh good, excellent. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.360 So a new study claims to have sawt the long 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.560 standing mystery why t rexes have such disproportionately small arms, 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.600 which have given people like me an excellent metaphor for 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.880 somebody who never picks up the check or disappears when 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.320 it's time for everybody to kick in. Oh they got 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.760 t rex items. They can't quit reach the bill. Oh 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.960 no they can't. They can't even get through the wallet. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:24.920 That's too bid. Yeah, I'll name names too, anyway. A 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.240 Royal Society research paper published and may suggest that the 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.880 t rex, which averaged more than forty feet long with 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.720 arms stretching just three feet, naturally evolved smaller arms as 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.199 this skull grew larger. They looked at eighty five dinosaur 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.840 species and found a consistent correlation among five groups that 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.200 I won't bother mentioning because I'll mispronounce half of them, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.160 each showing a pattern of larger skulls and shorter four 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:56.760 limbs and over time that increased, you know, proportionally more 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.079 and more as the dinosaurs evolve over a million in 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.880 the years. The idea being, once your head and jaws 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.319 got as big and powerful as they were, that's how 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.200 you're gonna engage your prey. You're not gonna bother wrestling 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.160 with them or trying to claw at them, right, You're 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.400 just gonna awe chomp on them. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.640 Yeah. If you've ever seen a good t rex skeleton 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:23.080 or a model or whatever, their heads are ginormous. My 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.120 son who's super into dinosaurs and evolution and wants to 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.800 study that for his life. I think it was shown 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.680 me a video where they took chickens and they put 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.400 some sort of a weighted tail on them that would 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.240 be similar to a t rex, and they think that 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.079 shows you what a t rex would have walked like. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.800 Since a t rex and a chicken are very similar, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.560 they just have a heavy innovative so that's kind of 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:46.640 the way that would have walked. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.319 So you're saying that t rex was delicious one fry. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:52.559 Okay, here's our hate text. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.040 It's actually I think a voicemail, So maybe we'll have 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.360 to get the audio because i'd kind of like to 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.679 hear what this person sounds like because it came out 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.080 through voice, but I've got the print version. Yeah, I 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.760 just didn't want to waste my time on interrupting your ridiculous, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.600 absolutely ridiculous show. But I didn't want to leave a 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.839 message and say I listened to talk radio ninety percent 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.320 of the time in my car, and I just don't 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.880 have any idea on earth. How you two knuckleheads got 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.360 a radio show. It is absolutely just beyond me and 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.800 some of the greatest radio hosts I've listened to over 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:20.240 the years. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.920 How you two yo yo's ever got a radio show? 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.800 So you must have contacts with an owner of a 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.040 station or related to somebody, because you absolutely are the 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.040 most nonsensical people ever I have ever heard on a 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:31.839 radio show. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:38.400 Yeah, Donald Trump is my uncle. H oh my god, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.360 oh jeez. Uh, there's so many options out there. I 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:44.280 don't know why you wouldn't. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.719 Just I know. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.280 I've never understood people who take in entertainment that they 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:55.439 don't like and then decide to explain to the musician 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.800 or artist or a talk show host why I don't 0:12:58.920 --> 0:12:59.240 like you. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.800 Okay, all right, dear paramount. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.280 I've been watching this series on Netflix every night, and 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.600 I just hate it. Well, there's a million there's way 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.079 too much romance and it's too much talking. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.880 I prefer more action pack sequences. What is the matter? 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.640 I can't imagine how you even became a movie studio. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.920 You knuckleheads must know somebody. I wish we had that it. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.040 We got a lot more on the way, including Sarah 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.800 isg're about the Supreme Court. Gonna be good stuff. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:24.200 Stay here. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.880 I've talked up AI quite a bit for like advice 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.440 with various things, all kinds of things. Had a problem 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.880 my son's truck wouldn't start the other day, like why 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.880 is it not starting? I gave it the specifics on 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.360 a you know, the year model and everything like that. Man, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.960 it nailed it narrowed down to such a specific things. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.040 It's incredible. But on like personal relationships like that as 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.880 therapy and so, I don't know if you all know 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.319 who Mark Andriesen is. He's a columnist with the Washington Post. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.720 I think anyway, he was on Joe Rogan for three 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.880 hours the other day talking about the benefits of AI, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.720 and he was talking up the therapy thing for one. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.640 A couple of things caught my eye because there was 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.000 some stuff bouncing around in our social media world and 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.560 our Twitter feed about somebody claiming that the trouble with 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.240 AI is it just it just tells you what you 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.640 want to hear all the time. I've not had that experience, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.040 but you can make sure that you don't have that 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.480 experience pretty easily. But anyway, let me hit you with 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.720 a couple of things that Mark Andreesen said that AI 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.000 can do for you already. You can send AI photos 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.840 of almost anything medical now and get a real second 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.880 opinion very quickly. Skin rashes, blood test results, a mole, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.040 pictures of your poop. The new models can read images, 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.760 not just text, and it's a free twenty four to 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.840 seven second opinion on basically anything that's very accurate. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:46.880 Wow. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.080 So I can stop sending pictures of my poop to 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.920 my friends and send it to AI instead. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.520 Or I have an excuse for why I have so 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.600 many pictures of poop on my phone. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.680 Oh no, no, no, that makes sense, trust me. Oh my, 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.040 oh my, oh. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.240 You mentioned here that the the best AI coders in 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.200 Silicon Valley are making fifty million dollars a year working 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:09.600 for the various AI companies. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.120 They're so in demand. Each company wants to have the 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.840 very best. Whooa wow. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.760 Uh, here's a guy who paid two hundred dollars to 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.520 get his entire DNA decoded. This usually costs millions of 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.360 dollars and takes years to do. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:28.040 Soon we'll all be getting this done. Uh. People take 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.880 a picture of his DNA or how does that? 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.080 Somebody put cameras around them for their home jiu jitsu gym, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.720 and now AI watches them and gives it's like having 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.920 a world class coach. You could do it with golf, tennis, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.240 all kinds of different things. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.400 WHOA what I know, I don't know. It didn't it 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:45.160 didn't get into that. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:51.120 But wow, I'll skip to this one just because we're 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.880 about out of time, because I thought it was really interesting. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.360 The one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.200 work in the world is cognitive behavioral therapy CBT. It's 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.840 also something can fully do on its own, which means 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.640 every person on earth is about to have access to 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.440 a real therapist for any time they want. I've had 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.040 that experience with like family stuff and all kinds of stuff. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.680 But he suggests if you tell the AI to steal 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.160 man the other side of this, like whatever it tells 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.320 you to do to make your argument for the other side, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.640 you'll get a good presentation of both sides and you 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.720 can go from there. And I have done that, and 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:29.080 it's amazing. It's like watching two really smart people in 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.640 a debate about your topic and you can you know, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.360 if you have any level of intelligence, I think, come 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.040 away with it what you think is the best course, 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.360 as opposed to it telling you everything you want to hear. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:47.440 A more nuanced and confident view of why you believe 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:48.320 what you believe. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:48.600 Yeah. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.520 I asked a question about a weather phenomenon the other 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.320 day and the answer was just fascinating. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.720 It was absolutely fabulous. I think by taking a college class. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.960 I think the first time I ever heard the term 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.480 Steelman to straw Man was from Sarah Isger on one 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.080 of her podcasts, and we're going to talk to her 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.520 coming up next about her book she's got out about 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:07.880 the Supreme Court. It's really good. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.680 She has such a gift for making this stuff understandable. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:12.480 Just terrific. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.800 Yeah, and a question I've been wanting to ask her 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.480 for a very long time. Man, if you miss it, 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:21.639 gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.200 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.960 We've been wanting to get Sarah igor on for a 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.359 long time. First became Wherever on the Dispatch and the 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.560 podcast stuff there man. Anytime any big legal story breaks, 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.840 I go to her twitter feed or wait for the 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.480 podcast she does with David French Advisory Opinions to get 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.200 it laid out. And couldn't be happier to have her today. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.359 Yep, we're both big fans of Sarah Isger, editor of 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.280 Scotis Blog, hosted the legal podcast in Firesorry Opinions, Legal 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.280 analyst for ABC News and author of a fabulous new book, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.280 Last Branch Standing, a potentially surprising, occasionally witty journey inside 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.240 today's Supreme Court. A book so timely and important I 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.480 believe it should be a compulsory read for every American. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.399 Not sure how that scores with the first time. Sarah, Welcome, 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:02.840 How are you? 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.760 I'm great? Thank you guys for having me. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.880 You bet you before we let you lay out the book. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:09.920 And here's the deal I'm gonna make with you. Even 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.920 though we have no leverage. You're like the horror moves straight. 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.959 We have no leverage over you, but I let you 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.760 and I'll go out and buy a hard bound copy 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.040 of your book today, even though I'm getting a promotional copy. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.440 If I can get you to do one of your screeds, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.199 and there's so many, I would like the screed might 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.880 be prejudicial. Maybe I'll go with presentation or something like that. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.840 But and I could have you do why the whole 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.439 crying fire in a crowded movie house is misrepresented? 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.440 I mean, there's so many of them. I for of 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:37.840 you do that. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.840 I love her greatest hits. Why there are no parties anymore? 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.880 And it's a waste of time. I want to have 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:48.440 you lay out the pointlessness of issue polling after the book, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.440 because I want you to do that for our audience. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.320 I really do. Excellent, No problem, it's done. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.040 I mean, you don't have to go to me into 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:56.600 doing a rant. I love a rant. 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:56.920 Good. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.800 All right, First things first, though, tell us about Last Standing. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.000 Well, part of the reason for this book is to 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.240 convince Americans that, yes, they're hearing so much more about 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.399 the Supreme Court and that it is actually our most 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.679 functional branch of government. But it is never the last 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.840 word in any of these fights that we're having on politics, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.919 on culture, war, anything else. It is always up to 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.439 the American people. If you don't like something the Supreme 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.040 Court decided, we can amend the Constitution. We used to 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.480 do it pretty frequently in response to Supreme Court decisions, 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.560 and most of the decisions from the Supreme Court are 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.880 actually just up to Congress. If you don't like partisan jerrymandering, 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.920 Congress can deal with that. Today, we just don't expect 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.480 them to. We don't make them, and we continue to 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.360 vote for people who have no interest in actually legislating, 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:54.440 because legislation requires compromise, negotiation, actually working with someone who 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.120 disagrees with you. And it said, we keep electing people 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.240 who are really good at putting out Instagram res bills 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.640 yelling about how the other side is the problem. 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:04.080 Yeah, I've listened to you so much. 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:05.520 I actually know what your answers are going to be 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.480 to all my questions, but I'll ask them anyway. What 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.919 you have us talker? Well, I am, I'm a fanboy, 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.720 wound boy. What changed? Why you know, if we used 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:17.119 to amend the Constitution all the time. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:17.520 What changed? 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:19.160 Yeah? 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:20.840 I mean a few things. We can go back one 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.919 hundred years to the progressive era, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.040 They really wanted to remake the United States government and 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:33.879 move away from Congress again that messy, long negotiating process, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.719 and they wanted it all to be housed by experts 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:41.000 and independent agencies. It would be shielded from political influence. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.960 So we've been doing that experiment for about one hundred years. 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.920 And then during the second term of the Obama administration, 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.560 when his immigration legislation failed in the House because Republicans 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.920