WEBVTT - Spiderman & Online Slop 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:06.960 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.080 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:18.440 Arm Strong, and Jetty and know He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.000 Well today, Trump tonight reports that the US is running 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.080 low on missiles and said that leakers. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:33.400 Of that story are being hunted down. Oh we know 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:33.720 one thing. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.480 They're not being hunted by missiles. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:38.879 Right now. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.240 Trump is dealing with leaks and shortages, which is actually 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:43.160 pretty normal for an. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.199 Eighty year old man. I think. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.680 I resemble that remark. But uh, that's a troubling story. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.240 More on that a little bit later. So we had 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.120 a little affair conversation a little bit ago where I 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:05.640 mentioned I have resigned myself, at least today to the 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.759 fact that we're about the last quarter of my life 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.520 and my kids mostly entire lives are going to be 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:21.039 through a very very tumultuous, difficult, different time than I 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.560 was expecting or that I lived through. I have resigned 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.679 myself to that part of it. I was listening to 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.119 the Triggeronometry podcast. They had Peter Hitchins on. I don't 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.959 know if you all know who Peter Hitchins is. He's 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.960 Christopher Hitchins brother. He's as famous as Christopher Hitchins in 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.360 England but not in the United States for some reason anyway, 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.319 And he is the one hundred and eighty degreeoposity. He's 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.520 a devout Catholic and conservative, but very smart guy. And 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.160 they were talking about the economic situation in England and 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.480 as he stated, he said, it's over. We're done. I mean, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.400 it's just we're done. There's no coming back from this. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.000 Our financial situation. When he said, if you look at 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:03.000 a family who is now uh using everything they have 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.080 just to pay off the interest on their debt without 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.400 touching the principle, you would you would look at that 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:08.600 family and think they're doomed. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.680 It's it's just how it falls apart or what looks like. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.960 And especially if every solution excuse me, offered within that 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.360 family would make the situation works. They're going exactly in 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.560 the wrong direction with every policy prescription. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.560 Yeah, and I wasn't I didn't mean to talk about 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.559 merely financial ruin, which were on the road to also. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.200 But oh, I know our audience and they love British 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.919 fiscal policy, but all the other different things. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.160 I mean, there's there's just examples like that is going 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:36.600 to happen. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.399 It's not a that I don't think quite I don't 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.480 understand why people don't quite grasp that. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:42.959 It's math. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.600 It's not it's not a political opinion of any kind. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.480 It's just flat out match. But anyway, and they were 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.400 talking about historically, you know, they use the example of 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.120 the United States and the Great Depression, but just various 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.360 times in world history where people thought this sort of 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:03.200 thing couldn't happen, where everything got up ended and your 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.080 whole life savings is gone, and your money is worthless 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.399 and you got to start completely over, and now you're 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.240 all living in one house and blah, just all these things. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.120 You just don't think it can happen to you. That's 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.959 the way we're built, I guess, because if you thought 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.400 it could happen to you, maybe it'd just be too 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.639 appalling to go through every day if you constantly worried. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.040 Everything's falling apart. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.720 You can't live like that, no, But you can live 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.600 knowing that that sort of thing will happen if you 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:29.919 make a lot of bad decisions. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.200 Well, that's that is so, whether it's politically, financially, AI 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.839 all the different things. The next twenty five years are 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.080 going to be radically different than I thought they would 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.800 be for my kids, right, And that's true. I'm worried 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.920 about more worried about my kids than me by far. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.200 I never worry about this for myself. If I end 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.119 up I don't know wherever, doing whatever, I don't care. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.440 But I do worry about the world my kids are 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.800 coming into. Uh. But there's just there's I can't control it, 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.400 and it's just gonna be. They're gonna live through a 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.640 very interesting different world than I did. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.040 Right, There's just no getting around. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.560 It, you know. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.800 I summarize it by saying, as I often do, I'll 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.800 be in the woods if you need me. I'm so 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:17.279 flabbergasted and utterly unsure what to expect that I just 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.200 I'm an old guy. My kids are older than your kids, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.040 so I don't worry about them as much. I figure, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.279 you know, I tried to bring them up to be 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.000 resilient and optimistic and if anybody can make it, they'll 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.560 make it. But yeah, it's utter insanity. And kind of 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:38.200 on that theme, Joseph Sternberg wrote a great piece called 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.479 US Voters Facing Midterm Election about Nothing, and he talked 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.880 about the parties are more divided than ever. But he 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.880 takes some shots of the Republicans, saying, what exactly are 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.080 they running on in the midterms, What are they promising, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.040 what are they crafting, what are they assuring us that 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.480 they can deliver to us? And I can't don't really 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.600 think of anything, honestly. Well, I hate to opposing lefties, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.400 I hate to double down on British politics, which nobody 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.760 cares about I do. Peter Hitchin's theory was, he said, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.560 at this point, because of the way the parties are, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.200 they have a similar problem that we do. The parties 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.120 aren't what they used to be, and they are personality 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.360 based and all these differences of problems, and they're not 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.720 for anything. He said, All you can do right now 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.880 is vote against the thing you think is the worst. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.640 There's nothing to vote for. All you can do is 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.080 vote against the other guy if you think they're worst, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.600 the worse than than And that is what has been 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.360 happening for several cycles here. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.040 So yeah, that's probably where I'm I'm I'm not thrilled 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:48.200 with a lot of Trump's ideas, and certainly is personality, 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.720 but oh my god, do I think it's better than 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.360 if we had gone further down the Dei Kamala Harris road. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.880 So yeah, you vote against what you think is worse. Sure, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.120 and Sternberg. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.720 Makes the point that one of the few political bodies 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.040 in the country who are saying this is absolutely what 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.080 we stand for and we're going to deliver it are 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.080 the lunatics of the DSA, whose plans are utterly unworkable 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.560 and would lead very very quickly to a single party 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:18.000 totalitarian system, which obviously is horrifying and loathsome Meanwhile, and 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.080 then he gets into one of your favorite topics, Jack, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.600 It leaves Americans in November the task of electing a 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.640 Congress without having any idea what the Congress might actually do. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.159 What brought us to this nonsensical place. We're reaching the 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.040 culmination of an era in which lawmakers collectively decided they 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.919 care about priorities other than lawmaking. Decades ago, they started 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:42.200 outsourcing to executive branch agencies the task of nitty gritty legislating. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.960 More recently, the abandonment of a regular budget procedure in 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.040 favor of ad hoc down to the wire deals has 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.359 centralized Congress's most important job with the leaders who concoct 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.479 these agreements which means there's precious little for a typical 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:01.119 lawmaker to do anymore. The lack of any day responsibility 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:05.279 to legislate or negotiate leaves them ample opportunity and motive 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.600 to turn each congressional seat into its own little bully 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.120 pulpit on social media, and to be fair to them, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:15.400 voters perversely reward this type of behavior, ay ay yay, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.760 and he says it's profoundly unhealthy for our society. If 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.960 lawmakers aren't required to make policy choices, then neither will 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.960 voters be. Perhaps it's too much to expect a mid 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:31.240 term campaign about, say, substantive social security reforms, but we're 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.280 reaching the other extreme, in which voters are able to 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.160 make choices based solely on vibes without having to consider 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.960 policy trade offs. The collision of those vibes with economic 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:45.080 and political reality invariably produces a particularly ugly form of disappointment. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.200 The rise of the DSA is one result, but it 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.560 won't be the only one. I can think of a 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.360 variety of analogies, but they're all not things I want 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.480 to talk about, really, But there are just situations in 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.600 life where you know, really wish that hadn't happened. It's 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.160 really too bad that happened, because the alternative would have 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.160 been great, but it didn't. The alternative didn't happen. This 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.000 is what happened. So I guess this is. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:10.320 Where we are, right, That's just the way it's gonna be. Yeah. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.120 Yeah, human beings are very good at adjusting their sales. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.280 But as I've said a million times, after. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:21.200 A rocky period though, yeah, the problem is we're doing 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.040 that cycle that you always talk about, and the the 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.880 after the uh, hard guys make good times thing, when 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:30.960 you get to the weak men make bad times. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.040 The bad times period is not going to be that 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:33.640 much fun. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.400 Yeah, don't YadA, YadA YadA. The bad time right, the 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.880 rebuild with the new crowd of tough people, the next 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.960 generation or two. I don't know how long it'll take, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.679 but that'll think a five. I'm fairly optimistic about that. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.920 But that doesn't mean the the bad time period is 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.040 going to be you know, a real kick in the pants. Yeah. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.080 Yeah, So I was going to illustrate the greater point 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.160 with a particular policy disagreement that's going on right now. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:07.120 A yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and do it. Hang 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.760 with me for thirty seconds. Okay, thirty seconds. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:11.640 Tldn R. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:18.360 I know, so, Gary Peters, he's a Republican Michigan I'm 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:23.400 sorry his Democratic Michigan senator is poop posting online leading 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.360 the charge against something Republicans are trying to do. Quote 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:30.360 President Trump is cutting important Medicare funding, raising prescription drug 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.920 costs for millions of Americans. Okay, so yanking granny's medicine 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.240 out of her medicine cabinet as usual, and it's not true. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.679 And then the columnist asks, do you remember. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.520 How Democrats use supposts savings from nationalizing student loans to 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.400 pay for Obamacare. Yeah, kind of vaguely, mister Peters was 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.160 alluding to a similar fiscal trick, which is resulting in 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.760 more than half a trillion dollars in higher Medicare costs 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.640 for seniors and taxpayers. Higher costs. The Trump administration is 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:08.520 going to end a subsidy for Medicare Part D insures. 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.600 The Biden team established the subsidy to stop plan premiums 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.520 from rising before the twenty twenty four election as a 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.160 result of the Inflation Reduction Act. But the IRA let 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.280 Medicare officials engage imputative negotiations with drug makers, et cetera, 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.559 et cetera, et cetera. It required drug makers to pay 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.960 the government rebates on medicine. Democrats claim the savings from 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.400 these two provisions would pay for enhancements in Medicare Part D, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.120 including elimination of the coverage donahole. This goes on for 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:46.280 three or four more paragraphs, describing the triple switcheroo of 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:54.800 the utterly insane, ridiculously complicated, and completely dishonest funding mechanisms, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.120 and how the claims that we here in our popular 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:05.720 politics are so completely divorced from the truth that there's 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:10.400 no point in even uttering them. And I emerged from 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:15.800 that article thinking can the democracy bounce back from being 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:23.720 at this point in the progression toward incredibly immense, incomprehensibly 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.920 complex government and utterly dishonest politics. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:30.800 What do we do? I don't know. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.160 With AI and the current media landscape. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.920 Right right, don't leap out windows, folks, I mean, you know, 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.840 do up some hot dogs and burgers on the grill 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.480 and hang out with your friends. You're gonna have a 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:41.520 hell of a nice Friday. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.320 Yeah. I've not only come to accept, but kind of embrace. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.120 I'm trying to just you know, make lemonade out of 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.880 lemons where I'm like, you're gonna live through a really 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.720 really exciting time. I mean, is this gonna be something 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.080 to watch? So let's just let's do it. Let's get 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.520 this on for the. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:03.520 Next twenty twenty five years. It's gonna be something. Wow, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.600 watch it, right about it? Talk about it? 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:15.319 Whatever, sleep, drink whatever. It's gonna be something. Ah. Are 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.960 you following the story about the diver who was pissed 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.959 off at another diver and cut his air Oh? 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.440 Have you seen this on a diving trip home? 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.040 Make a bit of an overreaction? 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.000 Oh my god, that other stuff on the way. Stay here. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.920 According to the affidavit, eighteen year olds Hunter Coffer was 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.920 diving using a floating air tank attached to a long 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.880 hose called a Brownie third lung when another boat approached 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.320 at a high rate of speed, circling the vessel several times. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.160 There was an argument over who was there first, and 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.480 moments later they say they saw Simpson swim over to 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.400 the air supply unit and intentionally. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:00.520 To it off. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.599 We have the team holds a safety. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.520 By his partner on the boat, who told police the 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.200 boy was gasping for air. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.360 Yeah, this is quite a story. So it's a prized 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.280 lobster spot. You know you're in the best lobster Hey, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.480 we were here first. No, no, we were here first. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.720 We come here every time we were here first. You 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.520 go in there, I'm turning off your air. The guy 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:32.360 threatens beforehand, then jumps out, turns off the air for 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.240 a guy, and they start yelling, as you heard the 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.319 woman there. Hey, we got somebody down there, this eighteen 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.079 year old down there. The guy on the other boat, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.040 the owner of the boat jumps in, pulls the eighteen 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.120 year old out, gasping for breath, tangled up in hoses. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:46.840 Luckily, is okay. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.520 But according to experts, having your air turned off, even 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.120 for a tiny bit when you're diving, can kill you. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.720 It can be a really really bad thing. Yeah, fifty 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:01.320 one year old guy Michael Joseph Simpson being charged with 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:06.319 attempted murder after turning this guy's water air off because 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.120 we got to the lobster spot first. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.320 How crazy is that? 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.760 Wow? Wow, he's being held on ten thousand dollars bond. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.040 Why isn't it eight million dollars bond? You've demonstrated being 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:26.320 a complete lunatic, one hundred percent lunatic. Wow, that's quite 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.640 got a good lobster spot. You want to defend it? 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.880 And then chat GPT told me that having your air 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.960 turned off is one of the great greatest things a 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.000 diver can intentionally do to another's underwater Oh okay, thank 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.680 you for that. That's why you're Chatt, that's why your 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.920 artificial intelligence. And I'm just a regular guy, right right, 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:51.600 well done, ya, this is my lobster diving spot. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.680 Say we will hear first. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.240 Like I was shooting him with a spear gun would 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.520 be bad, right, what a cook? 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.560 Yeah, I haven't run into anybody that bad. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.680 But we've all run into people before where they have 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.280 an irrational reaction to something that's way out of proportion 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.920 to the problem. What a parking spot or whatever the 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.000 hell it is, and just like what, Yeah, yeah, they're 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.680 angry about something else? Oh is that I speaking? You 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.080 think that's what it is? Usually it is, but I 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:19.600 don't know if it is with the lobster guy, I 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:20.000 would know. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.080 Well, and sometimes it's a specific something else, and sometimes 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.440 it was that their life has been crappy, or they 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:31.120 were used as kids or whatever. I mean, I've hardly 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.080 met a bully who wasn't like knocked around by their dad. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.720 Anyway. Yeah, don't do that. It's horrible. Yeah, he could 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.320 have just had an argument with his wife on the 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.000 phone before they went out there, and you know, you 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.440 just you don't know. Uh, here's some good news for you. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.000 It kind of fits in with what we were talking about 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:54.840 last segment. One of your AI outfits in Palo Alto, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.240 a stone's throw from where we're broadcasting right. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.520 Now, has come up with a way to. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.960 Write recipes for entirely new viruses and, as it says 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.960 in the New York Times, the modified bacteria. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.080 The blah blah blah blah blah. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.520 This would be an opportunity to create fantastic new anti 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.320 viral drugs and vaccines, as well as to learn how 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.840 viruses work. Oh fantastic. Then they're throwing the downside. It's 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.800 hard to imagine a downside on the horizon. Oh, they 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.560 did throw in this sentence. It also could be used 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.680 by bad people to create dangerous pathogens that could kill 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.760 everybody on Earth, and it'd be pretty easy to do 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:38.240 and you wouldn't need much expertise. Oh okay, again, getting 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.200 back to what we were talking about this next twenty 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.880 five years is really going to be something. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.040 Everybody say whoo han. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:49.560 Everybody say whoo han. Any job with a smartphone could 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.160 jump on AI and create the next Black plague if 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.960 they decide they want to. All right this, it's we 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.800 need to change gear. I am calling. This is an 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.720 official call. I am filing an F thirty two right now. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:11.040 We must change gears? Is this too much doom saying 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:11.720 it just doesn't. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.800 I'm just surprised at the New York Times and everybody. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.760 They always go with that positive spin when everybody's thinking 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.840 about the negative spin in the back of their mind. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:23.080 I know journalists, well, what's going on in their brains? 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:24.680 Partrong and Getty. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.800 New York City will pay hotels almost two billion dollars 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.680 to house the homeless, which means tourists are now eligible 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.560 for free rooms as long as they poop in the streets. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.720 I told my story about that sort of thing yesterday. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.800 If you missed it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getting 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.919 on demand where there was that sort of incident the 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.400 town I live in in California. A charming segment. Hope 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.840 you enjoy it with the family. I don't know, charming 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.280 the right word. So I've taken in a lot of 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.480 Tuck Cark Carlson over the years. We've had him on 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.320 the show many times. He was actually one of the 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.560 more reasonable commentators on any of the channels for decades, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.720 in my opinion, And he had shows on all of 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.920 the channels, and I watched him on Fox every single night. 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.159 And at some point either went crazier, became a grifter 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.159 or both. I don't know which, and nobody seems to 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.679 know which. But uh, he left Fox, and he has 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.000 his own podcast, and he's still very influential. He's getting 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.439 the crazy, insane rich. And I haven't been listening to 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.639 him for a while now. But according to Douglas Murray, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.639 who's been following for The Free Press, Tucker for several 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.680 weeks now has been suggesting that America needs some kind 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.680 of third party to save itself. 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:38.920 Now. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.359 There have been other people whispering about the idea of 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.439 Tucker Carlson running for a long time. I don't know 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.880 that he's ever started those rumors or not. It's hard 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.399 to say he in fact he anytime it's ever come up. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.159 He has said one thing I'm never going to do 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.480 is run for office, and he's always seemed pretty believable 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.320 that he means that. But anyway, he's talking about a 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.760 third party a lot lately. Let me read from the 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.720 Douglas Murray piece in the Free Press. The founding members 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.560 of this third party that Tucker Carlson has been talking 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.720 about recently would be an Avengers style team consisting of 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:21.280 former Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, Thomas Massey, former counter terrorism 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.479 director Joe Kent, and some of their spouses. Now, if 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.440 you know some of these names, these are all people 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.920 that are well in that world. It would be I'd 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:31.879 be a jazzy group of people right there for your 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:36.080 third party to show he means business. Tucker devoted in 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.480 an entire hour and a half episode this week to 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:44.840 his ten point plan to save America. Some people have 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.720 suggested that Carlson is clearly lining up to run for 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.080 political office. Others who have known him for years point 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.480 out that Carlson has neither the discipline nor the patience 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.359 required for a political run. We now have some fresh 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.480 evidence of that. He seems to lack the patients to 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:03.600 write down ten ten points. It says here without boring himself, 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.680 the carlson plan to save America includes the following list 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.399 of aims he believes our country must pursue. And I'm 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.399 just saying, you don't accidentally put out a ten point 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:18.120 plan talking about a third party every night for weeks. No, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:23.680 that's Scott. I'm I'm gonna run for office written all 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.040 freaking over it. But anyway, his ten point plan is 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:34.600 the country must pursue fairness, sovereignty, productivity, beauty, health, honesty, optimism, wisdom, decency, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:35.119 and unity. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:36.720 How could you be again to any of those? 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:48.040 Like many lists created by Carlson's erstwhile staff, they are 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.000 opponents on the Socialists left. There are slogans that are 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.200 meant to be unopposable, right, or to put another way, 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.080 as a logician taught me many years ago, and this 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:58.639 is the sentence I really really like, because I've never 0:20:58.680 --> 0:20:59.760 come across this before. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.800 There is no point in uttering a. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.680 Phrase the opposite of which would be uttered only by 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.480 a madman. I have never heard that before you. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:13.840 No, No, I've tried to express that myself, mockingly, taking 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.480 the opposite position to illustrate how insane it would be 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:19.560 for anybody to have that position. But yeah, It's like 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:20.920 the ultimate straw man thing. 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:26.040 If anybody ever stands up and says something that, well, 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.280 the opposite of that would only be said by a crazy. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.080 Person, then they're what. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:38.919 A grifter, fooling you, playing on your emotions, something untowards 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.439 something ain't cool there, because if you stand up and say, 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:48.200 I'm for people having a good wage and love in 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:52.080 their family, yeah, so is everybody but a madman. 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.120 So what are you What is going on here? 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.920 Well, to your question about what are they trying to do, 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.960 here's something only a mad man would say. Yes, he's 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.560 making incredibly dishonest arguments, but I wouldn't worry about it. 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.200 They're up to something nefarious. 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:14.359 That's pretty much all of politics, though, even with people 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:17.960 that are like not, I don't think Barack Obama's necessarily nefarious. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:19.879 Some of you do, but I mean he ran on, 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.120 you know, hope and change. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:27.280 Well, only a mad man would be against hope. I'm 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:31.800 for despair and stasis myself. Yeah. 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.439 Ah, so that's really interesting. 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.400 Well anyway, I mean, that's so that's the game of politics, though, 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:39.840